“I write about my realities. In Spring Ring, I wrote what Tinnitus has been like. As flowers bloomed outside, Tinnitus bloomed inside my head. From lurking on Reddit, I know that my experience is not the most severe, but it's still disorienting. The poem reflects this in its form by physically swapping sides like how the sound swaps ears, shifting perspectives and blurring the distinctions between oppositions. It’s a cycle I’m learning to live with. Not yet resolved, but hopeful.”
Oria is a British writer who lives and works in London. She studied philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy but now, instead of arguments, she writes poetry.