Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
Oh, round crusty moon You remind me of the oyster dappled one we found in that drawer that held such magic Juana Morens on flickr.com Juana Morens on flickr.com Sisters sifting through hundreds of colored buttons Two or four eyes or golden looped Some wrapped in leather The sound ...
Charles Schultz you like to say you’re Charlie Brown the unappreciated hapless shlemazel the unfailingly benign well-meaning soul always harangued by demeaning women but Charlie wasn’t tone deaf or worse purposefully snide he wasn’t an archer an overbearing pedant quick to judge to wound it was you...
helloglee.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/broken.jpg You think it’s a choice, You said so to that lady who told you “It’ll take years for me to get over this.” You said, “That’s your choice,” Puffed up when you told me, No one makes you feel what they want you to feel, Least of...
Torn through bone and flesh, This heart that swelled awake and started beating rhythm for my breath When it felt the tug, electro-magnetic, Now wrenched out of space and time. It hears the call of its master, mercilessly pulled To narrow halls, stuffed birds, spinach mash and evensong. To...
Beach spiral 1, by Dishtwiner, at dishtwiner.deviantart.com You are so quiet, and then one day it happens. a sound, the way the earth creeps, a noticing. how a pebble turning changes the beginning of what you will one day tell your grandchildren is Your Life. a sound. the heart’s...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
