Tag: codependency
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Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction
COLLAPSING GEOMETRIES (Click link for poem) “Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles.” — Anne Sexton, “The Addict” Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction Anne Sexton’s phrasing – Sleepmonger – Deathmonger: there is no romance here. There is no metaphor trying to rescue the experience of addiction from…
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Collapsing Geometries
The poem “Collapsing Geometries” explores the destructive impact of significant male figures in the speaker’s life. It depicts a struggle with intense emotions, likening relationships to gravitational forces that distort reality and devour hope, ultimately leading to a sense of fragmentation and loss of self within chaotic dynamics.
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Poetry Unpacked: On Hope
RED PLANET, RED FLAG (Click for poem) “If I had lost my belief in you, I should have lost all hope.” –George Elliot, Middlemarch Poetry Unpacked: On Hope George Eliot’s line sounds romantic, right? Belief, in this framing, is not separate from hope. It is hope. To lose belief in a person is not to…
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Red Planet – Red Flag
Red Planet – Red Flag I start early with the promise of launch– Climbing inside 5000 metric tons of IRON CHROMIUM and NICKEL. The caustic current of ionized air colonizing my sinus space. You send metaphoric messages that dissolve like snowflakes on my tongue– Secret signals from your encampment 224 million miles away. RED PLANET…
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His Lineage of Assholes
I have a foul mouth, okay? I attribute this mouth to early access to Comedy Central when I was a kid, as I would spend my midnights watching George Carlin stand-up specials. I view profanity as added color, but also, sometimes, as fact. There are moments when no other word describes a person’s behavior as…
