Tangled Like Silly String (A Love Poem from Pure)

Wrapped in you, where intimacy becomes rhythm, breath, and unspoken language

Tangled Like Silly String

There are kinds of love that don’t arrive quietly.

They wrap themselves around you—not to trap you, but to hold you. To feed you. To steady you. To remind you of warmth in a world that often forgets softness.

Tangled Like Silly String is a love poem born in that space. The space where connection is not distant or theoretical, but lived in breath, silence, rhythm, and presence. It is about a love that nourishes as much as it entangles—where even the entanglement feels like safety.

Not all love is gentle in the way we expect. Some love is consuming in the best way. It becomes language you speak without speaking. It becomes memory your body recognizes before your mind can explain it.

This poem lives in that sacred in-between—where intimacy becomes instinct, where two people begin to mirror each other without trying, and where even silence feels shared.

Behind the Scenes with Maria Tavarez

Poetry often begins in solitude, but Pure Becoming: The Living Installation was created to invite conversation, collaboration, and transformation.

As part of this journey, artist Maria Tavarez is bringing her visual interpretation of Tangled Like Silly String to life. This behind-the-scenes TikTok offers a glimpse into her creative process—the moments of experimentation, intuition, and artistic discovery that happen before the final piece is revealed.

Watching another artist engage with a love poem is a unique experience. What began as words on a page becomes color, movement, texture, and feeling through Maria’s perspective. Seeing that translation unfold reminds me that love speaks many languages.

Watch the BTS video below and step inside the creative process.

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BTS with Maria Tavarez: A glimpse into the creation of her visual interpretation of Tangled Like Silly String for Pure Becoming: The Living Installation.

Tangled Like Silly String

Wrapped, entangled in key substances to loving you
Harvesting chips of you
As if to have a reserve to keep me nourished,
Sipping from your words
To keep me hydrated in everything that is you,
I am resting on everlasting.

Ever pleasurable, ever patient, ever gentle,
Kind to the sublime, your love has been
Gifted by the highest, I am grateful to
Receive it and reverse it, for rough times.

Bottling it up deep inside, your love is like
Velvet to my soul,
Greeting me in the morning,
Kissing my golden-brown skin
Existing in places, no other can.

Enveloped by your key notes,
Pacing the rhythms in
Your breath along with the beats
Of our hearts, synced,
As if a perfect design for a match.

I love the language we speak in silence
Swept in the steady breath,
Listening to the lines unspoken with our hearts
The next words we utter would be in unison
Then laugh, and jokingly state “get out of my head.”

Instantly, in that moment between
The last word uttered and the
Short silence thereafter we both agree
There is no place better than where we are.

Closing Reflection

Love as Art, Art as Love

What moves me most about this collaboration is seeing how a poem centered on intimacy and presence can inspire another form of expression. The same tenderness found in the lines of Tangled Like Silly String emerges differently through Maria’s artistic process, revealing new dimensions of the poem.

Love leaves impressions. It shapes language, memory, and creativity. Through this collaboration, I’m reminded that art itself can be an extension of love—a way of seeing, honoring, and sharing what matters most.

Thank you for taking this journey with us.

Pure Becoming: The Living Installation continues to unfold, one poem, one artist, and one transformation at a time.

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With gratitude,

Naima Yetunde Hammonds