It started out wrong with the ring. Wrong, I mean, from everyone else’s perspective. They would have said, you should not be the one buying this, Kat, and if I was, it shouldn’t be a Ring Pop. Cherry. I remembered you saying once – just once –
Archive for June, 2008
Schoolgirl/ Triangle (notes).
June 27, 2008
Schoolgirl is pretty self-explanatory, I’m guessing. Dorky crushes (even on unavailable straight girls) FTW. There’s not a great deal to say about how this one came to be – just a rambling diary entry of sorts from what should be junior high, but was – alas – roughly two weeks ago.
Triangle takes an entirely different look [...]
Focus on My Family.
June 27, 2008
There are some mistakes in this one, but I’m trying to be less of a perfectionist.
Read the poem the old-fashioned way:
Schoolgirl (v.1).
June 26, 2008
Read this poem the old-fashioned way:
Shit Ain’t Pretty (notes/disclaimers.)
June 25, 2008
So, a new spoken-word piece raging against the media. One of the consistent pieces of feedback I’m getting is “but Mary, you ARE pretty” which makes me wonder if my friends are just really sweet (and know that I have issues with not believing this) or if it’s not clear in the piece that I’m [...]
Shit Ain’t Pretty (v.1).
June 25, 2008
Story of Origin (notes).
June 25, 2008
This is me, for a moment at least, back to working on that project I started as part of my creative writing class last semester. One of the main practical problems I was looking at in that piece was how to differentiate between people in the narrative, without relying on their names (as there are [...]
Story of Origin (v.1).
June 25, 2008
In the beginning,
I came from the country,
past the city limits,
where suburban lawns
gave way to wild grasses;
I grew my youth old
in the log house between
cornfields and soy bean farms.
Later, after I started over,
I would say I came
from the tiny Northern city
on the lake, the open spaces
of my childhood replaced
by thick strips of forest,
trees I knew but [...]
Covenant (notes).
June 20, 2008
Covenant is a piece that finally found its way onto paper as part of a creative writing class I took this past semester. It was the first (written) in a series of stories I’m working on, which – put rather vaguely – are about a certain kind of “encounter.” I’d be more specific, but I [...]
