Entries by Bethany

Save Twilight

“It would grieve me if despite all the liberties I allow myself, this took on the air of a collection. I never wanted butterflies pinned to a board; I’m looking for a poetic ecology, to observe myself and at times recognize myself in different worlds, in things that only the poems haven’t forgotten and have […]

Do We Ever Really Know Where We’re Going?

Yesterday I was sitting in my green chair, trying to work, texting my sister, wishing I had better hair — all the usual distractions, and (of course) not working. I wrote this text: I think I need a therapist. Then the phone rang. It was my friend M, who happens to be a therapist. Maybe […]

Quotable

I was thinking of this quote yesterday when I wrote my blogpost. Not sure that it entirely fits, but here it is. (Quoted by Louise DeSalvo) “In the absence of any record of my illness, I shall write it myself. Invent it out of whole cloth. It is what a writer can do that a […]