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One Unforgiving Late February Morning
Squealing brakes. The unmistakable sound of steel on steel on glass on pavement. That was the thing about McGough — you didn’t really need an alarm clock. She rolled over in bed to find his side empty again, and got … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged aging, Alzheimer's, cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, heimska, jones, kitten, life, love, relationships, stupid cat, the blue-eyed man
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, On Depression, Poetry
Tagged anger, connection, depression, dreams, fear, grief, hate, heart, hope, life, loneliness, loss, memories, memory, mental illness, misery, pain, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, writing
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100 Words: Reach/Drown
I realize you’re drowning. Should I just stand by the river and watch as you go below? I can’t not plunge in up to my elbows and pull you back out, pull you above, give you breath. Open your eyes, … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, On Depression, Poetry
Tagged 100 words, addiction, grief, life, loss, love, poem, poems, poetry, writing
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100 Words – Discover
I am questioning all of the things in which I promised I believed. I don’t like the things I said I liked don’t want the things I said I wanted won’t do the things I said I would, I’m not … Continue reading
Toska/Saudade
In another language, another lifetime, in another place, if I were someone else and not me I would be able to find the words that mean homesick for an idea. Homesick for the remembrance of something lost. I would be … Continue reading