Verbing and Kinning - an explanation
Way back in 2024 experimenting with different forms of 'languaging' happened. Daily presenting me with a different kind of challenge, one day was using verbs rather than nouns.
I began 'kinning' as a result, adding the word 'kin' to the name of nouns deliberately, recognizing the energy of every apparent 'thing' and our connection. Many of my friends still call me 'Lizzie-kin' and I respond similarly to 'Helen-kin', 'Zoe-kin'.
Why? The poetical below is better at explaining than noun-infested prose!
EXPLAINING VERBING AND KINNING
Let us be free of the shackles of noun-ing
drink in ‘communing’, and longed-for wild ‘towning’
Let ‘moving’ stay fluid beyond what it gets called –
‘a movement’ – which is inevitably walled
hauled in and strangled by its own non sequitur
never quite what we might infer
life is too fluid to be ‘this’ and yet for now it is ‘that’ –
for ease we speak of ‘the homeless’, ‘dandelion’ or ‘knat’
making ‘kin’ a thing from which we are apart
what might connect us? ‘Verbing’ is a start!
When Life arrives as ‘knatting’ I’m aware
of the way that knat-kin ‘presences’
together in our being we share:
verbing is attendancing, demonstrating care.
Let me be ‘verbing’ or ‘kinning’ when I speak
Lizzie no more but lizzie-ing through hearing,
verbing, love-making and appearing endlessly unique…
which, with perfect irony, prompts naming
and adding ‘kin’ in order to recall
that however we’re skinning
we are KIN ‘kinning’: squatting, stinging, singing,
we are part of it ALL.
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