Mother Creep Rhymes
Mother Soap is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as Slather ,an elderly sideways country woman in a flouncy hat and shawl, but is sometimes depicted as a gargoyle.
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Fat
A true story/poem. Our realities were so different – my tiny preferences had a dystopian twist to them for my then-husband. There were not many days after I said “I will” that did not find new odd buttons of despair – they were strange days indeed.
Read Moreif I don’t make a break for it
I will miss the red orange glow of sunset, long purple shadows and turtle doves and rabbits, the smell of creosote and orange blossoms, I will miss looking up at the sky and seeing a million stars.
Read Morebe bop let go
It’s green, really green, cartoon green. There are pink and yellow and beige and purple flowers. The sky is light blue.
Read MoreWe do not hold the beach!
Men(?) are more interested in violence than sex.
Read Moredisturbed (fragment)
It disturbs me even thinking about it. I don’t embarrass easily, but this was such a disaster. The sound of one hand clapping.
Read More(more fragments) afraid of the dark
Dying, a dance, on a hot spring night. Its flood. The flood. The levees broke and bodies on top of cars, on roof tops, in trees, in the water, on the ground. Just there. No place for them. Where was Bush?
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holly troy ~ sacred folly 