Tag Archives: Healing

The ER

Posted on October 10, 2011 by The Survivor Chronicles

I’m sitting on a gurney in the emergency room. I’ve lost count of how many visits this makes. A flimsy cotton gown is wrapped around me, I feel the chill from the opening at the back and I shiver. The … Continue reading →

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Survivor

Posted on November 1, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

The multiple troubles of man, my brother, like slander and pain, amaze you? Consider the heart which holds them all in strangeness, and doesn’t break. Shmuel HaNagid, Hebrew poet of Muslim Spain (993-1056) I am Yeats according to Auden. For … Continue reading →

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The impossible

Posted on October 29, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

At the edges of the day light hesitates as if to respect our dreaming shy until it meets the heat of our morning eyes   Our embrace binds us and the tender dawn binds the air in wispy zephyrs that … Continue reading →

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Testament

Posted on September 24, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

What are words? Pictures of my soul in symbols letters from a heart that is so sore it only wants to write beauty. Past is past, healing is today moving on is tomorrow. Words could never hold all the pain. … Continue reading →

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Therapy

Posted on September 21, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

Throw me in spin the chamber tumble me against the rocks. Chip away nick the polish strip the blister from the skin. Sanded smooth finely finished you have ground me into dust. Denise Clemons holds a BA in Biopsychology from … Continue reading →

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