This Weird Girl

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Category: Poetry

  • Coughing Up Clay

    A few words to describe what a panic disorder felt like to me. Around April 2013 Internal joltingThe soul seizuresShaking, pressing, squirming through the neck and shouldersMind-numbing, the face flushesDripping, reeling, fading into pitch black nowhereCoughing up clay, swallowing hardAnd yet the grass dancesThe leaves giggleAnd the mountains, in all their splendor, stare at me…

  • Quarantine Killed the Extrovert

    This poem is rough. I use some strong language. I won’t go into details about the context at the time (I’ll save that for my book), but you should know I had my first psychotic break (ever) the very next day and was hospitalized the following week. April 11, 2020 Violation is my nameGive it…