Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• AMA / Writing

  

  I received a handful of questions on my poll. A couple were specifically about me and a few were asking for my take on a thing, so I thought I'd address a coupl... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• What’s Something That Feels Sacred, but Isn’t?

  

  The long smooth slice down the body of the pomegranate, and how I always do five of these in even measure. How the pom breaks open in my palms and the jewels... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Between Math and a WhoDunIt

  

  I'm pretty sure my to do list is an ever-expanding universe gathering dust and making stars from it. It's an endless caterpillar that grows legs faster than the... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lockdown Mouse

  

  Today people shared that the word of the year for Collin's dictionary is lockdown, and I wonder what other dictionaries will pick. It seems like a reasonable... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poet Jacket

  

  Denim material with velro letters. Reads: My definition of the holy changes with each loss. - K. Opoku-Duku This is my homemade poetry jacket, and the first... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal 11.8

  

  Sometimes I think about how the can opener wasn't invented until the can had already been around for 50 years and how ridiculous this sudden tool would seem to... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mush

  

  Today's been a lot like a pregnant and laboring octopus- an eight-legged creature full of thousands of different lives that kept bursting into existence all at... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• This is Fine

  

  Anyone who's really gone through something knows that there's a stage, or a day, or a short-lived hour, where you just become the dog with a hat in a bar full o... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Halfbaked Snacks

  

  I want to be the first to know what I want to say, but it doesn't always work out that way. The words I knead in my mind still need shaping today, still need... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Regathering

  

  . . I don't know where to begin, or what to say. I feel very much like a glass with a single drop of water in it. A stem with no leaves. Not dead, and not empty... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 4 Miles from the End of This Post

  

  Sometime yesterday I wrote to myself that today's post would be: Like a pomegranate. After the peeling, but before the seed gets stuck between your teeth. Stay... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Podcast: Prisons and Bigger Things

  

  Hi best beloveds, This is just a quick note to let you know you can listen to me chat with The Nasiona's Julián Esteban Torres López about prison, and how... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sheep Dreams

  

  My sleep, when it happens, is a little bit see-through. A gossamer sheet that falls over my face, ghosts me from the world, for an hour, or two, sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rara Borboleta

  I want the universe to know I can write about small things. And by small, I don't mean brain-clot-small, I don't mean prison-cell-small, I don't mean... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Self Check in

  I know you have been good today, but have you been kind? Did you smile at strangers even though they couldn't see your lips tip up at the corners from behind... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Blog Tab

  I've been using WordPress for a very long time. There's 52 blogs connected to this account- some that I manage, some that I am just the appointed extra contact... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 October Joys

  Self-care. My new Etsy shop where people can buy some of my late husband's art on a t-shirt, or even one of my little expressions. It feels good to know that... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Floof

  

  A picture of a fluffy plant, by Grayson Queen I walk every day because one time I went to prison, fractured my hip, and then five years later had surgery to... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not out of the Woods

  

  Last night wasn't the first night of un-sleep, but it was the first night I took medicine for it. Medicine that decided I needed awakeness more than it needed t... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yellow / Love Like

  

  My love boomerangs and shapeshifts, and hovers like goosebumps leapt out of my skin. My love's scratched up like a record that skips as well as it croons, like ... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION