Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 21, 2009 in
Poetry Years ago
in psychotic stupor
or schizo-affective nightmare
my brother dug into the clay muck
of ourstory.
He flung
the muddy
words onto the page and
into my life when
he delivered the mess to a
friend.
Hands sullied, eyes burned by
earthy secrets,
I balked,
embarrased at the lies and
fossils he unearthed
I couldn’t yet name
or remember.
Now I unwind the words that snaked
their way into my psyche.
They followed
me through the [...]
Tags: abuse, Poetry, secrets
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 19, 2009 in
Embarrassing Moments,
Writing I just submitted my blog for your analysis the other day, and realized too late I’ve made a grave mistake.
First of all, that damn little box that asks us “who we are” is ridiculously filled with a few sentences that probably have little to do with who I am. I mean, when someone you’ve never [...]
Tags: Ask and ye shall receive, blogging, sucking ass, Writing
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 10, 2009 in
fiction Riiinnnnngggg.
Riiiinnnnnggggg.
“Mmmphh. Hello?”
“Bob? Bob, is that you?”
“Alan?”
“Yeah, listen. I uh, I just needed to talk to you for a sec. You awake?”
“Alan. Man, I can’t believe it’s you. But it’s like four a.m. here.”
“I know, I know. I’m sorry. It’s just, you know that thing with the blog, and the month off and everything? I’m losing [...]
Tags: imagined conversations, things that keep me up at night, why I'm a writer and normal people aren't
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 8, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Creative Nonfiction,
Writing This is a piece from my “creative” blog. I have no idea why I initially separated the work. Perhaps because that other stuff is darker, less conversational. It could continue to stand alone as a short fiction piece or it might be the beginning of a longer story. We shall see.
***
She knew you could see [...]
Tags: before it went wrong, creative, little girl lost, Writing
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 3, 2009 in
Creative Nonfiction,
Writing I climb the steps to the bridge overlooking the river, out of breath and empty after my run. The water here is a shallow, pebbled flow, fifty feet below a platform that sits on an old railroad support. I know this water, this river, like I know the sound of my name. My heart beats [...]
Tags: bike trail, Percival's Island, river, Writing
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Sep 1, 2009 in
Writing Dearest Friends,
After pursuing, luring and wooing you to my blog over the last year, I find myself now in a state of flux, of directionless wandering. I premised this site on my own dysfunction, my conjunction junction, my joie de viva Las Vegas, but now I feel I am pulled in too many directions and [...]
Tags: audience, buy local, change, homeschooling, mommy blogger, new direction, Writing
