I’ve been doing a lot of free writing related to my anxiety and frustration about being unable to write. This is a freewrite that came about after reading something and having my mind wander completely away from the story because of associations triggered by a certain word or scene that took my mind elsewhere. I’m […]

Herr Doktor,      I want to siphon this anxiety from my body and bottle it up. I want to place it somewhere forgettable and shove it away like a half-finished poem. I want to find it crumpled in the corner several years down the road and think, “huh, I’d forgotten about this one.” And then […]

There wasn’t a slot to post this on EMU online, so I’m posting it here for safe measure. The entries without any outline are ones that I’m not sure about or haven’t read in a couple years. Acker, Kathy. Great Expectations. New York: Grove Press, 1982. Print. – semiautobiographical – about her mother’s suicide – […]

1 – Parasite – Letter P Parahelion, protactinium, papilla, parallax, phlegmatic, penumbra, peneplain (as well as pabulum because I’m a cheater.) My perihelion is approximately 3.76 billion miles away from your catalyst. I am Pluto’s charismatic stifling, wailing into the void of your plumage. Please, please, please let me suffocate in your radiance, your subtle […]