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Tag: codependency

  • Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction

    Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction

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    Holly Leary
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    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: her words feel like blood on my tongue. There is no romance in them, and no metaphor…

  • Collapsing Geometries

    Collapsing Geometries

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    Holly Leary
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    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.

  • Poetry Unpacked: On Hope

    Poetry Unpacked: On Hope

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    Holly Leary
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    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 until you sit with its implications. Belief, in this framing, is not separate from hope. It is hope. To lose belief in…

  • Red Planet – Red Flag

    Red Planet – Red Flag

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    Holly Leary
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    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…