Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• No Contiguity

  I'm old and I'm broken and I'm trying to not say either of those things anymore, because my mind doesn't need to hear it. My knees pop either way.My hip stiffen... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Clean Air

  

  Officer Irube sat down one day, but his belt had turned sideways, and he ended up pepper spraying the cop shop. It was hilarious, but I kept my face straight... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• i Get It

  

  These are some prison vignettes, themed around incomplete and uncomfortable memories that swim around my head sometimes. I guess this a trigger warning, but th... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Home

  

  There was a leashed pig on my doorstep when I came home Monday. He was refusing to cross the street, hiding behind his human friend, because someone had brough... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 100 / a Deal

  the ancestral flame that sheds so much light on bloodshed that we all can see our feet-stain. Don't take my colors: the ones I pulled from the rainbow and... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cabezudo

  The thing that bothers me most is the numbness. The empty. The days I wake up blank. The days I remember everything but feel nothing about it. My skin doesn't... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Born Dinosaur

  

  I was born dinosaur, but I melted early; liquefied to hold on better, became tar-child, a sticky-hot-goop fossilizing my loves for safe-keeping. I tried to lear... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lucky Me

  This was originally posted on the beautiful Beth Ann's blog, It's Just Life. I wanted to re-post it here, to fill in some story about my general grief progress... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flowers and Stars

  

  Some things stay still, and others move forward, and all things do both. Listen to the little flower and the big star learn how to gently say goodbye. ... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flowers and Stars

  

  Some things stay still, and others move forward, and all things do both. Listen to the little flower and the big star learn how to gently say goodbye. ... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rapid

  I speak quickly. Too quickly. I have to repeat myself a zillion times a day. I am an expert in sentence restructuring because when I slow down too much, I... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Surplus

  

  My family is a medley of cultures so I have no idea when a household tradition sources back to a specific region of the world, or it's something they made up. ... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• a Great Fall

  

  My consciousness yo-yos, sinks to the ground in exhaustion, then whips itself back. I don't know enough yo-yo words to play this out. Something about making a... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ahem

  

  The widow can teach you how to safekeep love. The felon can teach you how to breathe free. The girl of color can teach you how to make yourself invisible. But... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birds

  

  Over on Instagram, I've been nanopoblano'ing as well, posting a poem a day. The first 15 days, I tried to integrate a bird into every poem. The second half of... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Selfies

  

  Life is a lot easier today than it has been in the past. I have a steady collection of people who soften the piercing self-judgments and razor-edged moments. M... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rainbow Enough

  

  As time happens, I encounter more and more people who think prison is a metaphor I fold into my writing. In a way, this makes sense. It was hard for people to... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• River-made Woman

  

  I swallowed so many tears, my bones eroded and turned me into riverbed. Woman-made river, catching the sadness like it was meant to hold it. I swallowed so man... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• a Little Step

  This was written November 27th, 2014 from the California Institute for Women, from room 136- the cell without a mirror or light, or doorknob, where I spent my... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 100. Veins

  

  I miss the kitchen window of my first home, where I could look out over my family garden and talk to the plants. I pretended they stretched up just to hear me... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION