Do You Really Need to Spiral Right Now? A Quick Self Check-In Guide

Do You Really Need to Spiral Right Now? A Quick Self Check-In Guide Go in order. No skipping or cheating. Just pick what’s closest to your current state and analyze if you really need to be spiraling out of control right now. 1. Has today been particularly bad? Yes, it’s been awful. Fair enough. Go …

The Beans

Bacteria settled onto the valves of your heart It sat there and grew over time The textbooks tell me It might have something to do with your dental procedure But you sit here in front of me with your son and husband Smiling, joking, worrying, reading, watching, living It doesn’t really makes sense “The bacteria …

MS3, Day 205—Dark

Sink toward the door day-weary and full of the eyes and pains of 15-minute acquaintances whose real questions I couldn’t answer. Shoes off Phone down Backpack off (not for long) Sink toward the piano weak against the gravity of the familiar, safe black Black wood Black keys Black space—with stars Familiar, predictable, wild beauty from …

Revascularization

Call upon the augur to tell the man if he should stay or go Pluck the feathers and see if in the steam from strewn entrails weave roads that lead away from home If after pricking, the trickling blood wends anew in the cobblestones a thumping pulse What think we of the haruspex? The soothsayers …

Pruning Season

She gardened bald, trimming the dying lavender to grow back for the living. Planning beauty for the future that wasn’t hers and she knew it.

Lemon Drops

I spent a year lost in the lemon drops away above the chimney tops.

Volume 9 | 2021

Table of contents

Red Tear

Painting

Like a chimney

I have never smoked a cigarette—

Peripheral Vision

I can see you so clearly out of the corner of my eye

Metamorphosis

Painting

A Soul and a Hull

I have struggled for so long to accept my body.

VIPatient

Shiny, silver locks

Wait – what’s my race?

On my first of many standardized exams, I remember being stumped by the question:

Sarah

“Sarah” was written while I was thinking about the premise of trauma informed care

Catechisms

These are the catechisms I have learned