Escaping the Timeline: Poems on Family, Karma and Boundaries

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 • Spiny Leaf Insect • Royal Pain • My Daughter, the Insurrectionist • Getting Along with In-Laws • Post-Exorcism Damage Control • Insomnia Anyway • The Smell of Bread • Neuralgia • 11 PM

Chapter 2: Growing Up for the Children

• First Time Cook • A Dream Where I Meet Repressed Rage • First to Outgrow • Literary Scene • Retreat • Welcome to your beautiful stream • Internal Crisis • Don't Rescue. The Desert is Infinite Potential Energy • Cthulu • Rope Fell Out of the Sewing Box • Four Seasons Toward Self-Love • Hoodoo Rocks • Ri(f)t • Obligations and Torture at Christmas • Emotion-dumpers and Energy-feeders • Not Smothering to Bother With • Escaping the Timeline

Chapter 3: Finding the Grace in Everything

• Si(gh)t • Protecting the Blessings • Learning Integrity • Loose ends • Blue hands • Suspended • Viewing Drinkwater's Ocean Face Bronze • Viewing Ronald Ong's Heights • Marble Caves • Nudibranchs • G-force Nine • Lift • Dracaena Cinnabari • Lighting Incense to Ancestors • The Beaches Parkrun, Australia, December

© 2022 Rebecca Trowbridge (Lydbog): 9781669673118

Release date

Lydbog: 4. maj 2022