Author Archives: Catastrophe Jones
Not a Disney Princess
It was raining like the endThe sky was full of darkAll the monsters were outThere were terrors aboutdoing their thing, making their mark And then there was youwith a sword and a light like the sunThen there was youI suppose … Continue reading
Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the
starting, launchinginto the newness,and no one had ever realized that it wasonly the shell,only the framing,only the drywall studsof a story,I remember we fell down,in which we could benothing more thanthe began selves we already were.some time long ago,an oral … Continue reading
Wound
Once, just once, you said something to me that burned, and I don’t imagine you remember it, but it cut into me the way an early, unwanted limb is cut from a tree, and leaves a shape in the bark … Continue reading
If it comes up
When you bow your head,when the mountain looms before you, lofty or otherwise, when you see that perhapsthe best way forward is notthrough the snow, but backthrough the deep, just call out to thosewho should have helped youthe whole way … Continue reading
Sometimes I Feel It
Sometimes I feel it — the immediacy of the thing I need to say, a burning from the inside out, and I cannot remove my hand from the match, not even as I watch it burn down, not even as … Continue reading