Alexis

“I blindly swallowed the days

the way a dog will run until it is lost

and I was never here

the medication, closer to nothingness

than ever being well.”
― Robbie Coburn

“I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.”
― Tara Hardy

“The Fury of Sunsets"

Something
cold is in the air,
an aura of ice
and phlegm.
All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.
The horizon bleeds
and sucks its thumb.
The little red thumb
goes out of sight.
And I wonder about
this lifetime with myself,
this dream I'm living.
I could eat the sky
like an apple
but I'd rather
ask the first star:
why am I here?
why do I live in this house?
who's responsible?
eh?”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Both [parents] knew how to fight for humanity's basic human rights: food, water, shelter, medical care. Figuring out how to provide emotional support for their raped daughter did not propel them into action the way the revolution did. On the contrary, it immobilized them, silenced them, left their lungs devoid of breath. 'Don't move, don't speak, don't breathe' had not only been my survival psalm during the rape itself, it became theirs in the aftermath.”
― Carmen Aguirre, Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma