Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• Fallen

  

  ​I read this recently at a poetry reading, and the full script of it was requested, so here it is. From the driver's seat, she extends her hand, palm up... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• i Am Magnificent

  

  If I were magnificent as a red summer rose, I'd peel off my petals, . ..... .... but since I have none, I'd peel off my clothes. So if I were magnificent as a... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rome

  

  Rome wasn't built in a day, or by a single pair of hands. I've never really understood why we're so concerned with how Rome was built when most of us don't eve... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Footnotes

  I'm not writing a post today. I am in a mood. A bad mood, I suppose you'd say. I don't feel like hiding behind metaphors, or wrestling with an oxford comma. I... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Truth, Lately

  

  She has a new hobby. She likes to play dress-up, wearing excuses better than anyone I've ever known. She can't anymore because she never could. She can't... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Runaway Eggs

  

  "Oh no," Deb says. "You're getting chocolate all over Auntie Ra." Littler J smiles, unconcerned. "Ra likes choco." In this, he's actually wrong. Ra doesn't... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sun

  

  Today the Daily Post featured my recent poem, Chaos, in a post about poetry for uncertain times. I was honored because the poems that sat alongside mine were... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• E-radhika

  

  I don't know what I'm supposed to write tonight. I'm just sitting in grey sweatpants. They were sent to me in my first quarterly prison box, which I received o... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• September 29

  

  No one but the crazies out today. I fit right in. He's calling the Tesla dealership, wants to know if there's a discount if he only intends to slam it against... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• September 29

  

  No one but the crazies out today... I fit right in. He's calling the Tesla dealership, wants to know if there's a discount if he only intends to slam it... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chaos

  

  These are the first tacos after 438 days in jail. She's smiling, focusing on food, and freedom. She's ignoring the noise, the flickering lights, the customers i... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Akira

  

  He's known for his screams and she, for her cheers, and they, for brokenness and unlikely fears. Sometimes he's a fox Sometimes she's a 'saur. Sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• #instaRarasaur

  

  I've been posting mini blogs on Instagram under the tag #InstaRarasaur. Here's one that I wrote, that inspired a shirt, both of which you've seen if you follow... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Relatives

  

  My family would keep calendars on the wall for months. There was always a reason. Dad liked the flowers on top of the April calendar. Mom wrote an important... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Counts

  

  No... Not unless you count a heavy heart. Not unless you count the heavy shackles of an un-free life. Not unless you count the footsteps I took as I walked awa... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Just a Blog

  

  There's a woman in the commercial, typing wildly, at a desk. She is clearly an author. Pages of words line her screen and her workspace, sheets of crunched up... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Site Map

  

  Turning my main menu into a post is all part of the redesign, just in case this is mailed out to you- I thought I'd use the moment of your time to say hey. You... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• i Was Honored

  I write and erase, and write again. Paul died. We talked about my anxiety sometimes, how life for me often felt like walking off a train into a busy station.... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Loading

  I've been waiting for her to come home, pressing my face to the window, skipping meals as I fill up on all the ticks and tocks of time. I smudge the glass to... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Drought

  I wish I could trace my inspirations as easily as my tongue traces my lips. I wish I knew the shape of them, without looking, the feel of them, without touching... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION