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Stuff & Things: Spring 2021

And perfect sentence from Lucinella by Lore Segal: “Sweetness suffuses my blood like a substance that melts jealousy in retrospect.”   … More

books, covid, kitten, life, lockdown, London, nature, outdoors, pets, photo, photo diary, reading, vaccine

Words For Life

DESIDERATA Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far … More

advice, existence, happiness, humanity, kindness, knowledge, life, mental health, nature, peace, poem, poetry, self, silence, society, youth

The View From The Smoking Room

I can see through windows once obscured by the lime tree that now stands smaller, nude and the skeleton of … More

gardens, home, houses, imagery, life, London, nature, night, observation, poem, poetry, smoking, winter, writer, writing

Heartlock

A poem for the 26th day of NaPoWriMo. Originally published on Hijacked Amygdala here.

GloPoWriMo, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, lust, NaPoWriMo, nature, notebook, poem, poetry, relationships, rhyme, time, writing

Deep

You, me, empty beach Lukewarm tea in polystyrene Secret thoughts cast out to sea On broken glass you fell asleep … More

BPD, depression, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, mood disorder, nature, personality disorder, poem, poetry, relationships, writing

120618

I told myself that As soon as that plant dies, I’ll leave you. It’s fucking thriving.

diary, journal, love, nature, poem, poetry, promise, summer, writing

Mercy

Standing on the cliff edge, two feet away from certain death, I hurled the contents of the velvet box into … More

freedom, heartbreak, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, memory, nature, pain, poem, poetry

​circa 1 B.C (Before Cancer)

There was a time when you weren’t sick. You did Dad things: fishing and football and DIY and karate and … More

cancer, childhood, family, grief, love, memory, nature, parenting, short prose, writing

Part 2 – The Scarecrow

[READ PART 1 HERE] The field did not know how to survive without the farmer. She tried to remember all … More

blogging, death, depression, fairytale, friendship, grief, Hijacked Amygdala, lit mag, love, nature, paranoia, prose, psychosis, relationships, short story, story, suicide, writing

Part 1 – The Farmer

Once upon a fairly recent time, a farmer’s wife fortuitously procured a large piece of land. She did not expect to … More

art, beauty, blogging, creativity, depression, family, grief, happiness, Hijacked Amygdala, lit mag, love, nature, short prose, writing

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