I've been doing Normal Person things this week ( Read more... )

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

-Sara Teasdale

your blood is a road
your heart is a wheel
your journey is in
the way you heal

-anna & ahna

The Waking ( Read more... )

A man recognized me in a coffee shop the other week. He asked, "Are you the golden bubble girl?" Yep, that's me. Metallic soap-blowing statue lady at the American Folk Festival. He found me again today in a natural foods store. I heard "I thought you said you didn't come to Bangor often" at my shoulder and was completely confused for a good ( Read more... )

fat red scar tissue bundling together like a silkysoft three-inch caterpillar ( Read more... )

oh, injury

what a nasty wound
here, let me see

if you put metal inside of a man
he can work much faster than you can
with a toothpick, a penknife, a can opener

-rasputina

Have any of you had a metal rod/plate/screw surgically implanted? What is your experience with it? Did you have it taken out?

In my movie, rain doesn't fall in the climactic scene. Rain doesn't make it harder for the spurned lover to find their darling, or pump up the drama volume for the final kiss. In my movie, it rains and we all get naked to go do flips & tumbles in mudpuddles, or take over a playground, or slide down a slick grassy hill. Someone grabs a bar of ( Read more... )

i begin to cry,
listening to a story
of compound fractures--

how lame. hopefully
it's PMS. NPR
shouldn't affect me.

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