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Tag: depression

Inventory: Things You’ll Find When She Dies

Behold, my Aesthetica Creative Writing Award shortlisted poem, a rewrite of an old poem from History of Present Complaint but … More

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, C-PTSD, depression, mental health, mental illness, poem, poetry, poetry community, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, rape, SA, suicide, trauma, writing

High Enough

I am standing on the roof. I am smoking a cigarette. I should be at work but I am too … More

death, depression, dreams, grief, home, London, loss, memoir, mental illness, prose, real life, relationships, short prose, suicidal, suicide

Found in Phone Notes

09:23 The last time I met Emily Dickinson in my dreams we had coffee and ice cream, and I taught … More

depression, dreams, grief, mental illness, poems, poetry, prose poetry, trauma, writing

Another Time at Camden Lock

It’s a strange feeling, this, to be left alone in the middle of a crowd, to be abandoned by people … More

Camden Town, depression, drunk, lies, London, love, poem, poetry, relationships, suicidal, writer, writing

Kneading

Originally published by Lunate (August 2021).

body, depression, healing, pain, poem, poetry, relationships, stress, touch, writing

Self Portrait (2014)

Lately I haven’t been able to find the right words for “all of this” so I’ve been turning to visual … More

art, creative, depression, destruction, mental health, mental illness, self, self portrait, suicidal

Moondance

Another spontaneous Saturday night, you and I, rock and roll and warm white wine. We share a moondance, barely clothed, … More

death, depression, grief, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, poetry, prosetry, relationships, sex, short prose, suffering, writing

1 a.m. on the Borderline

I leave his house without kissing him goodbye and hurry down the empty street. I hear him bolting the door behind … More

borderline, death, depression, grief, Hijacked Amygdala, lit mag, love you miss you, mental illness, observations, prosetry, suffering, thoughts, writing
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