If you intend on a new start, avoiding the fractal vise of old entanglements, Escaping the Timeline is a restorative collection of poetry exploring the path between doing no harm and taking no crap.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Family Snapshot
Compass 9
Spiny Leaf Insect 10
Royal Pain 12
My Daughter, the Insurrectionist 13
Getting Along with In-Laws 14
Post-Exorcism Damage Control 16
Insomnia Anyway 18
The Smell of Bread 19
Neuralgia 20
11 PM 22
Chapter 2 -Growing Up for the Children
First Time Cook 25
A Dream Where I Meet Repressed Rage 26
First to Outgrow 27
Literary Scene 29
Retreat 30
Welcome to your beautiful stream 31
Internal Crisis 34
Don't Rescue. The Desert is Infinite Potential Energy 36
Cthulu 38
Rope Fell Out of the Sewing Box 40
Ri(f)t 41
Four Seasons Toward Self-Love 42
Hoodoo Rocks 46
Obligations and Torture at Christmas 48
Emotion-dumpers and Energy-feeders 50
Not Smothering to Bother With 52
Escaping the Timeline 55
Finding the Grace in Everything
Si(gh)t 59
Protecting the Blessings 60
Learning Integrity 62
Loose ends 64
Blue hands 66
Suspended 67
Viewing Drinkwater's Ocean Face Bronze 68
Lift 69
Viewing Ronald Ong's Heights 70
Marble Caves 72
Nudibranchs 74
G-force Nine 76
Dracaena Cinnabari 79
Lighting Incense to Ancestors 81
The Beaches Parkrun, Australia, December 84
