Tag: loss

Autobiography

Shine

Ruby Pipes4 Comments

"STAR-STRUCK BOKEH" © Neal Fowler, 2010. CC BY 2.0.
“STAR-STRUCK BOKEH” © Neal Fowler, 2010. CC BY 2.0.
At dinner with Tanya I lean forward, chin in hand, elbow on table, and blow air hard through my lips. “Guh. I don’t know, dude. What the fuck am I doing?” That’s all there was to say about it.

She laughed and shrugged. “You’ll figure it out.”

I have to think I am coiling tight. Pulling in. A star about to go supernova, I’m collapsing in order to expand. Dazzling.

Poetry

A letter to those struck by the loneliness of December

Ruby Pipes8 Comments

"Flowers in december" © Daniel Horacio Agostini, 2009. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
“Flowers in december” © Daniel Horacio Agostini, 2009. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
I tear out pieces of my heart.
Leave them like bread crumbs.
They will show you the way back.
Proof
at least one person
feels like you.

We don’t know how to fill those spaces.
Tried booze
and drugs.
Food
and lack-thereof it.
Razor blades
and perfect strangers. Continue reading →