Category: Wonderings
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Wednesday
I wake at five, the damp air kissing my cheeks, and my eyes slam open. As I slither from my bed, I can hear distant screams. Mother. I do not smile. But I feel something I suppose could be happiness. The grounds start appearing out of the mist, lumps of sullen stone that had meaning…
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Chanelling Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams has been a role model of mine since childhood. Great catchphrases, shattering put-downs, amazing dress sense…what’s not to like? This video is an imagining of how an adult Wednesday would deal with a minor annoyance like MEN. More here.
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Breathe Me
It’s incredible how a song can zoom you back in time, through universes, to a single moment. Breathe Me by Sia is a poignant song for me, bitter-sweet. It encapsulates the only positive feeling I have about university, which happens to overlap with feelings about a person who helped me ruin a year of my…
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Surprose
I just found a poem that might as well have been written by someone else. I only know I wrote it because it’s in a book my daddy gave me – and my handwriting. I’m guessing it’s from my Lana phase last summer but really I have no idea. Fragile in pink satin. It’s…
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I Am a Horrible Poet
I really don’t give other people’s poetry a lot of time. Someone said I was “channelling Kerouac” recently and I was like “hmmm, yeah, should really get on that.” It’s not that I don’t appreciate other people’s writing; I do, so much. But mainly novels, stuff I know I couldn’t do. Poetry for me is…
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