there is room for poetry now while I am wondering whether I will die or if I just won’t be able to create new life. While I’m wondering why people choose such vague words while keeping my own words only as specific as I can handle.
i’m not crying i’m just bleeding my eyes like radiators
Last night I wrote the following tweet, which got more attention than I thought it would: Birthday in a few weeks! Don’t think people realize how important my 30th is to me as a cancer survivor. It is a landmark I will feel privileged to reach. If anyone did already realise that, I would declare…
On Tuesday I had my first counselling appointment. My pouch has been playing up for like five days. Last night I had another bad dream. Next Friday is my uncle’s funeral. It hasn’t been the best of weeks. This prose thing that follows happened last weekend. I wanted to make something out of this, a…
“The world should be GOLD today!” the sun declares, and gathers up its friends – the tiny mirror images of itself from far-flung beaches. It summons the wind to lift them all and scatter them into the sky, too high for definition, turning blankets of grey cloud a murky yellow like the edges of boiled…
don’t.
I wrote the below passage when I got to my desk this morning because on the drive to work I had been thinking about my uncle who doesn’t have long left with us, and that made me think about my brother and all the things I don’t know and don’t dare ask about his passing,…
I scrape a poem from the edges of my brain carve the crusty consonants from the crevices of my lobes, slide the spatula beneath the remaining residue from whatever once resided. I peel the skin from the corners, pick the flaky film from these four grey walls, soap up the sides to get the stubborn…
I’m in a really good place right now in terms of not withdrawing to some dark recess of my brain to think about bad memories, or worry about what future health problems might occur. That is really weird for me at this time of year. Normally September/October would be the time when my blog would…