EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE A SCAR (Memoir excerpt)
And it looks like such a tidy erasure. Like the emptiness just happens. Like erasure is a simple gesture.
I Was Med-Shamed By the Only Psychiatrist in Town
Match.com Is Still Discriminating Against Bisexual Subscribers
In 2014, Pink News revealed that Match.com was requiring bisexual members to pay for two subscriptions and use two profiles, one "straight" and one "gay."
Day of the Dead-to-Me
Many years on October 31, I’ve eaten both fistfuls of candy corn and a plate of pomegranate seeds.
Where I Write: The Hospital Room
Mahat-Pad Meditation
To see Bigfoot, to hug his dirty fur, is to enjoy knowing you are not alone.
Seventy or Eighty Times a Minute: Essaying the Heart
I do not like to think about my own heart.
Re Home
Sappho came from nowhere, just appeared by the swingset at the Montessori school where Emily taught.
This Modern Writer: Suicide Note
My ex-boyfriend is most famous for his death.
"Magic Words"-Writers on Writing #28
"It is better that you should rush upon this blade than enter the circle with fear in your heart," say the teen witches in 1996's The Craft. "How do you enter?" the girls are asked at athame (a ritual knife)-point. "With perfect love and perfect trust."
Notes Toward an Essay on the Construction of the Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
2026. Projected date of completion. When is a church complete?
Bloodlust by Erin Lyndal Martin
I was a lightning rod. I was a bursting seed-pod. I was popped cork and shipless bottle from corner-store champagne.
The hand with two sides: self-mutilation and the constructed feminine. - Free Online Library
Women's studies / memoir essay on self-mutilation as province of constructed feminine.
A Visit to Court Green
My Father's Voice in the 'Tower of Song'
The last time I spoke to my father, the subject was, of all things, Leonard Cohen — the musician my dad believed brought ‘punctuation to experience.’
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