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Blog postby Carmen H Gray
From the novel, Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton How do you have a conversation with your father when he isn’t quite himself? I’ve been learning to navigate this recently. Tonight I called him to check in on the state of things. He informed me that his sitter had been ensuring that he eats and drinks. He also gave high praise to the people working at the hospital, telling me that they were kind and helpful, but not too helpful because they had to pu -
Blog postIn the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.“-Albert Camus
A is for Aprazolam
B is for Buspirone
C is for Cymbalta
I can name many medications i -
Blog postmy hand outstretched in half moon pose today Half Moon
by Carmen H Gray
Today, as I leaned down into the ground
Connecting to the floor with the right hand and foot
While lifting the other half of myself skyward
Gravity pulled drops of sweat down
To puddle together near my right fingertips
I was invited to remember
How two opposing energies
Generate a power that is greater than its singular parts
And how each dif -
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Blog postsketch by Carmen H Gray Arms and legs suspended like drapery
Today I imagined my heart split open and a bouquet of flowers
Burst forth
While I lingered in the tender vines
I surrendered to time
And all of the entanglements it demands
Leaves fall when they are ready
To give the ground a soft landing
For a well worn boot
Or a home to rich fertile earth secrets
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Blog postWhat Lies Inside
by Carmen H Gray
What stirs her
Only the burs that stick inside the lace lined white socks
Oh the flutterings of the old, burned burrows
Drawn in the straw colored grass, they come out
Reeling from thorns that are still sharp
Yet certain steps retrace forgotten paths
Altering the trajectory of the stars, as it were
Never to be known the same again
That is what lies inside
Like chards broke -
Blog postSometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An act of courage is as unnoticeable as breathing
(to the outside observer) When you’ve kept everything stored up for a potential moment
That has yet to materialize
It is the unfurling of a leaf
The action directly following an extended pause
I don’t agree with Seneca
It’s not some times
It is all of the time
Living is an act of courage
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Blog postFor it’s our grief that gives us our gratitude,
Shows us how to find hope, if we ever lose it.
So ensure that this ache wasn’t endured in vain: Do not ignore the pain. Give it purpose. Use it.
-Amanda Gorman Suspended by Carmen H Gray
Fold yourself gently into it, my love
Suspension is the pause
Before you let yourself step further
Even if you trip, have confidence
In the fall
The sweet earth
Contains a purpose for y -
Blog postby Carmen H Gray
one of the many trails I’ve hiked in the pacific northwest Time passes
it is a path of fallen petals
strewn across soundlessly, like dew drops
upon fresh blades of grass
they are just as temporal
each petal holds a moment
whereby a day was lived,
gladly or sadly
depending on the circumstances
they disintegrate
softly curling inward
becoming part of the footpath
where little -
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Blog posthands by Carmen H Gray
the ice was crisp and forming
on the leaves of my plants
i had tended
i knew each leaf, each flower
i could almost feel their cells,
filling with tiny shards of ice
cutting them open and destroying plant tissue
which made me grieve their deaths
but it wasn’t until i saw that man
on the side of the road
whose delicate cells were simultaneously dying
that my heart leapt outside -
Blog post“Before you can hear, much less follow, the voice of your soul, you have to win back your body. You have to go on a pilgrimage beneath the skin.”
―Meggan Watterson, Reveal
The Healing House
by Carmen H Gray
one day they may come back to you
have your prepared yourself anew?
have you gone on your own pilgrimage?
have you faced your very own umbrage?
for when these lessons return to know
the breadth and depth of your adagio
Titles By Carmen Gray
Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales
Oct 12, 2021
by
PJ Hoover,
M.J. Addy,
Jessica Lee Anderson,
Miracle Austin,
Katya de Becerra,
Christina Berry,
Shelli Cornelison,
S. de Freitas,
Carmen Gray,
Jess Hagemann,
Britta Jensen,
Bernadette “Berni” Johnson,
Beth Kander,
S.N. Rodriguez,
Madeline Smoot,
Joy Preble
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