Mande

The Madwoman in the Attic Scribbles an Incomplete List

By J.M.R. Harrison

  1. psychotic excursions to alternate realms
  2. fire/flames/burning thoughts to ash
  3. are you STILL depressed
  4. supernova convulsing in night black sky
  5. shooting star then blank
  6. tar pit of trapped dreams
  7. tar pit of fossilized voice
  8. tar pit
  9. rapid fire AK-47 slugs to the heart
  10. you’re not going to do anything crazy, are you
  11. 350 poems about suicide
  12. snake that swallows years
  13. soft night suffocation
  14. screaming insomnia from childhood
  15. lost in lithium toxicity
  16. left holding the short end of a broken wishbone
  17. sudden clarity when the elephant gets off your chest
  18. how many pills DO you take
  19. manic fucking depression

J.M.R. Harrison has created and led workshops in fear, faith, poetry, play, and creativity. She studied poetry at the independent Writers’ Center in Bethesda MD for over a dozen years and is a 2016 graduate from the low residency MFA program of the Naslund-Mann School of Graduate Writing in Louisville KY. Her poems have been published in, among others, Antietam Review, Penwood Review, Spillway Magazine, Pensive, were featured in Fluent Magazine, and included in several anthologies

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