6 – Page 4 – Little Bristling Soul

from Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality by Merri Lisa Johnson

text=Troy Jollimore

Photo from the cover of some text book for dental students

Eliza Griswold from Wideawake Field

margaret atwood

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Margaret Atwood from Rape Fantasies

margaret atwood from circe/mud poems

Kathy Acker, Don Quixote

emily dickinson

That I did always love
I bring thee Proof
That till I loved
I never lived—Enough—

That I shall love alway—
I argue thee
That love is life—
And life hath Immortality—

This—dost thou doubt—Sweet—
Then have I
Nothing to show
But Calvary—

songs that talk right into my ear: “you’ve seen worse. survive”

I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I’m holding
out half
to you.

EILEEN MYLES