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metamorphosis
Brca 2 Nothing more than a ghost within a ghost* Bloodstained boots carry me through doors into rooms I am afraid to enter. Ancestors follow marked by heredity generation after generation at the mercy of their cells. * Long Day’s … Continue reading
becoming
I have never felt more whole than now, despite coming through a year in which my body has been cut into multiple times and parts have been removed.
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Warrior Woman by Peter Gaumond
No blade can excise your fierce femininity, no illness withstand the cleansing of your tears. Wounds are swallowed in the embrace of your openness. Sing forth my priestess of transformation.
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Post Bilateral Mastectomy Day 13.
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illumination
I have no death sentence. The light of day still falls as it had done before, only now the evening comes with a bit more grace.
YOU ADJUST by Kathleen Campbell (my beautiful & talented writer-performer friend)
When you’re sick and need an operation you adjust your fears so that you can do what you need to. When your body is cut and something removed you adjust your body to be accepting of that space. It’s not … Continue reading
renewal
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call … Continue reading
if my life was a sitcom
Oh, to be Samantha in Bewitched or Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie, Staring for hours, autographed pictures on my bedroom wall, dreaming of a different place with no compulsion or obsession, only once upon a time and happily ever … Continue reading
in the shadows
My splintered psyche aches from over-thinking. Endless days and nights, a series of reruns. Death lurks, looks square into my eyes. I am not afraid.
