Chalcedony’s Second Ten Songs

In mythology chalcedony (pronounced kal-SAID- n-knee) is a moonstone of the feminine, of the subconscious, of the dark, of the bright silver cold light of knowing. Indeed, Chalcedony is a woman, the name of a character in one of Matson’s unfinished short stories. Her poems are a vibrant call to body and spirit and earth through the sensory world.

In Chalcedony’s Second Ten Songs the poet broadens the exultant, erotic outburst of her first chapbook. She adds existentialism, science, and attitude to these new conversations with her lover or rather, to these new rants. Chalcedony has no doubt he needs a lot of educating!

She affirms her sacred and essential connection to emotion, and this connection extends, at every turn, to earth, myths, pagan life, love, and death. How else do we know we re human?

Chalcedony believes we are boundlessly in love, all of us, and the calmer way we live is illusion safe, cloying illusion. She melds her devil-may-care range of language with that of Shakespeare and the direct expression of classical Greek poets. She invites the reader to become a wild, sensual creature like herself, full of delight and full of fire.

Chalcedony encourages us to feel our feelings with abandon.