Wrestling with the sticky fingered cheek demon, AKA "Girlie," has been difficult. She is built like a tank. Why would I try wrestling with a two year old you may ask? Well, there was this EEG that was necessary to find out if her brain fixed whatever was causing her seizures. We've had our fingers…
Six am I'm getting picked up at Nine am to see my neurologist I'm showered not panicked yet about to get medicated and yet I can't put the laptop down. Nervous yes, but I washed my hair did not oil it (but oiled myself instead my skin is shedding like my dog's hair used to…
There's a fine layer of dust covering my hair, when I look in the mirror without the aid of my spectacles that tells me I should brush the dust off and re-twist my dreadlocks Further inspection with the aid of refractive material and rims tells me that I have continued to gain grey or white…
Writing 201: Poetry Prompt: fingers Form: Prose Poem Device: Assonance She mashes her fingers through the apple and food debris with abandon flipping, squealing, snorting, laughing until the tray is clean and the food all in her hair is a decoration of ornate resistance to the fact that she should now be asleep. She delicately…
My hair has been grey since I was twenty-one, with eyelashes curly and black. Add fifteen years of children, divorce, life's fun moments, I had one white eyelash and one white eyebrow. Two years later, two more white eyelashes and an untold number of white eyebrows have sprouted. At the maximum three foot length of…
Amanuensis Sobriquet-Reverie 