What is wrath but a manque d’amour, or an amour manqué?[1] I try to move into the light and leave you behind Evict you from your dwelling in the recesses of my mind Like a misguided tattoo excruciating to erase You’ve inked my heart with an...
December 2021 Writing
Booksong
Booksong I. Hands: Seismic In attempt to still I pick up a book Throw myself in Outrun that hungry tide For a little while It’s a race I know I’ll lose Besides this is executioner weather Red sun morning, halberds come a-fallin’ All the children singing,...
This World is a Windmill
Optional Soundtrack: Cartola Remember when you did things on time and cared and getting ahead or behind seemed life or death or vaguely related to happiness was the square root of accomplishment. Today at the mirador, wind lashing hair aflutter the poor...
Fall walk
Fall walk Sqadron of pigeons raids the sky. Raptors fly in gang. Yellow leaves fall on the streets. I walk on the foot path. With a little fear. Of the shadow behind me. A cat follows me....
The Four Phrases of Iona Helvitia
Joey arrives to help Donnie. Immediately upon his arrival, Iona whispers to Donnie: ‘Who is he?’ to which Donnie gives her his drawn look. She follows with ‘Why is he here?’ She completes the whisper with ‘I don’t like him’. Joey hears this in the adjacent room....
Fractured Clichés: Advice to the Lovelorn
don’t cry over spilt bricks every bubble breaks a piece of cake off the old block on square one and the apple doesn’t fall for chopped liver take it! paint the town bygones be a dime a dozen to a cold turkey who’s slower than a hill of beans that brought the cake back...
Iowa sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/72MwRO7OUdjzh8eq97pUaH?si=84R4FnoSQAWUCEIjSL_wqg ok this is the final version for Iowa sky, with the change in the text and a other voice
Iowa sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/72MwRO7OUdjzh8eq97pUaH?si=84R4FnoSQAWUCEIjSL_wqg ok this is the final version for Iowa sky, with the change in the text and a other voice
A cup of coffee
A cup of coffee ☕ Isabella has difficulties getting out of bed. Thé thoughts of some of the 6 grade students who make fun of her are stressing her out. “ Here again, another day of stress, “ she thinks. She read in an academic book dedicated to nurses, that stress is...
December Writing 2021
Check out all the wonderful stories from this month's Roundtable!
What is wrath but a manque d’amour, or an amour manqué?
What is wrath but a manque d’amour, or an amour manqué?[1] I try to move into the light and leave you behind Evict you from your dwelling in the recesses of my mind Like a misguided tattoo excruciating to erase You’ve inked my heart with an...
Booksong
Booksong I. Hands: Seismic In attempt to still I pick up a book Throw myself in Outrun that hungry tide For a little while It’s a race I know I’ll lose Besides this is executioner weather Red sun morning, halberds come a-fallin’ All the children singing,...
This World is a Windmill
Optional Soundtrack: Cartola Remember when you did things on time and cared and getting ahead or behind seemed life or death or vaguely related to happiness was the square root of accomplishment. Today at the mirador, wind lashing hair aflutter the poor...
Fall walk
Fall walk Sqadron of pigeons raids the sky. Raptors fly in gang. Yellow leaves fall on the streets. I walk on the foot path. With a little fear. Of the shadow behind me. A cat follows me....
The Four Phrases of Iona Helvitia
Joey arrives to help Donnie. Immediately upon his arrival, Iona whispers to Donnie: ‘Who is he?’ to which Donnie gives her his drawn look. She follows with ‘Why is he here?’ She completes the whisper with ‘I don’t like him’. Joey hears this in the adjacent room....
Fractured Clichés: Advice to the Lovelorn
don’t cry over spilt bricks every bubble breaks a piece of cake off the old block on square one and the apple doesn’t fall for chopped liver take it! paint the town bygones be a dime a dozen to a cold turkey who’s slower than a hill of beans that brought the cake back...
Iowa sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/72MwRO7OUdjzh8eq97pUaH?si=84R4FnoSQAWUCEIjSL_wqg ok this is the final version for Iowa sky, with the change in the text and a other voice
Iowa sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/72MwRO7OUdjzh8eq97pUaH?si=84R4FnoSQAWUCEIjSL_wqg ok this is the final version for Iowa sky, with the change in the text and a other voice
A cup of coffee
A cup of coffee ☕ Isabella has difficulties getting out of bed. Thé thoughts of some of the 6 grade students who make fun of her are stressing her out. “ Here again, another day of stress, “ she thinks. She read in an academic book dedicated to nurses, that stress is...
December Writing 2021
Check out all the wonderful stories from this month's Roundtable!