Oikogéneia - Family

by Gabrielle Busby 

Inspired by Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce... Pandemic!


My ​oikogéneia* ​is a tiny one. A chosen one.
We’re all different,
But yet the same.

My own crafted ​oikogéneia​. It’s all I need.
All we need.
Our swords in arms,

And hearts at sea.
Different ships and markings, but still Oikogéneia​.

Oikogéneia - Greek word for family, household, clan, kin


About 
Gabrielle Busby
Gabrielle Busby is a sophomore at Nashville School of the Arts, and has patricipated in workshops at school with Southern Word. Her writing career began as a hobby with a past friend to explore each others minds and expand on ideas. After joining NSA, she has started to slowly put her work out in the world and explored past the idea of writing for herself and few friends. She doesn't stick with the same genres often as she likes to journey into different worlds that can clash against each other. Examples of this is two novels in the works of an adventure of pirates and a horror story between college students. She hopes to put her name and works out there past being born and raised in Nashville, and to share themes that she hopes can better the world in even a small impact.
OZ Arts Nashville presents Art Wire: an ongoing collaboration between OZ Arts and The Porch in which 10 writers attend the OZ Arts performance season and respond to the presentations through original writing that is personal, playful, and deeply engaged. The OZ Arts 2019-2020 season offers each Art Wire Fellow a diverse array of inspiration, including innovative Japanese dance artist Hiroaki Umeda; a genre-bending presentation of Frankenstein by Chicago-based company Manual Cinema; and two emotionally raw works with Nashville's own professional dance company, New Dialect, just to name a few.

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