Throwing on Disenchanted by My Chemical Romance and getting all these words out here super quick just for the sake of keeping this thing and you people, whoever and however many you may be, updated. I’m having a hysterectomy (and ovaries removed) on 12th September. We can’t collect and freeze eggs first because that process…
I’m very pleased to have my new poem “Forearm” in Neologism Poetry Journal, and it’s this month’s featured work! You can read it here: https://www.neologismpoetry.com/august-2018/
I have two poems out at Cabildo Quarterly today! “can you come to bed?” about not wanting to be alone while going through a difficult time, and “The Difficulties of Existing Gracefully”, which is the result of a little doodle and a free write I did. Read them both here.
I have three poems in Soft Cartel today – “hurricane”, “Edges”, and “The Boy in the Window”! You can read them here: https://softcartel.com/2018/08/03/three-poems-by-sam-rose/
My poem “I am recounting” has been published in Little Rose Magazine today! Read it at the link below, and to give you a feel for it, I did a quick sketch of what was in my head when I wrote it: https://littlerosemagazine.weebly.com/home/i-am-recounting
we take the afternoon off work to visit the nuclear medicine department of the hospital and in the evening I try to access some feeling and I ask myself if I cry, will that help flush the radiation out of my body? or will it just give the bags under my eyes a buttercup glow…
My second poem over at Amethyst Magazine is out now. What a busy month! Read it here: https://amethystmagazine.org/2018/07/29/cocoon-a-poem-by-sam-rose/ I also did a little drawing to go with this one, after not drawing anything for a very long time:
I am eating lunch I am not fighting cancer. I am eating my lunch. And then I am going for a walk in the overcast bright of the day. And then I will go back to the office and write some articles. I might have a snack and listen to some music. There is no…
I have two poems published in Terror House Magazine this month: “Twelve Months”, “Control” and “Exchange”. Read them here!