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It started…
…innocently as a relaxing night on the couch…and ended w me in the ER. Ahhhh. Life with a PICC line.
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Here Be Dragons
clouds heavy and pregnant holding mightily hail like the ice of gods and lightning bolts of truth zeus striking earth, illuminating too many times, the truth the truth the truth a whole sky incapable of pretending it can pretend anymore, hold anymore then thunder then collapse and deluge then choice then change the earth renewed,…
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Shhhhhhhh
be quiet now while she infects your brain with bad ideas and self-hate stay still through the berating and cursing and yelling and blame go about, oh so softly, your life…trying to make up for all the stuff you didn’t really do wrong, working diligently to carve out her approval noiselessly imagine not doing this,…
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Bionic me
The post-hospital, bionic me. I’m being kept alive by that little purple tubing and the TPN that flows through it for 12 hours a night. I remain ill and exhausted and dizzy, but you know what? I went out last night! I walked on the promenade yesterday. I sat in the sun today. My mind…
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Heaven
And finally, we have entered the season of night blooming jasmine that climbs through my front garden and arches in to my living room so that, with windows open, and my sheer curtains flying, a half-sleeping love sprawled gratefully on my couch would be forgiven for mistaking my home for heaven.








