Category: still breathing

  • good morning, sunshine

    woke up this morning to a glimpse of pink reflections in a crystal blue sky out the windows of my room. though i’m neither menopausal nor, for that matter, female, i have been waking up in the middle of the night many nights with hot sweats for nearly the last year. when this happens, i…

  • shallow breathing

    peak flow meter at 460 today, finally starting tracking it in earnest after paying lip service to my general practitioner all this time. people die from asthma. two close friends of briggs’ have died from it within the last decade. i have to treat this like any other chronic condition. it’s so hard to think…

  • osmosis

    osmosis tutmoses THOTH moses titmouses nobody noses idea for 1-800-poetry audio, intimate whispered in your ear

  • don't interrupt me!

    why does it gall me so much to be interrupted? why do i talk faster and faster, louder and louder, competing to complete the most syllables with the most decibels? why am i wounded when cut off? why do i lash out? is it worse when a woman does it to me? am i able…