Sara’s Reviews > Written Under Duress > Status Update

So the most significant personal (feeling) piece I next is “The Boy With No Eyes”. Unsettled experiences coming to visit, great stuff. Really disturbing imagery in the best way showing us what it’s like to cut those things off and that they never go away.

Still good although it seems like I’ve hit a patch of poems that resonate strong feelings rather than lived emotion.

“Marvin” stuck with me tonight I kind of wish I didn’t read it before I went to bed and woke up to a job I can only offer my surface self to. That kind of ending is so possible for me and many people really. Fucking Marvin is going to give me a nightmare tonight, I will read that one again on my day off.

Im inching my way through, reading each piece a couple times then putting the book down to reflect on the words and meaning. Usually at the end of my day when I am not interrupted constantly. It’s really peaceful to reflect on these puzzle pieces of a life. So much of it is relatable I have marked my favorites and will revisit them.

I’m on page 20 taking my time reading and rereading ones I like. I was really taken with “Up Her Sleeves” because it relays hard to describe experiences you have as kids fumbling through loving someone authentically without all the adult tools we create. We can not care too much when things end, already decide it will not develop into anything or worse decide loneliness is safer.