through Stories, Essays, and Poetry
There are many ways to become invisible.
For Bruce Whealton, invisibility began in childhood: in a home where fear replaced comfort, where being quiet was safer than being known, and where emotional neglect shaped the nervous system long before he had words for trauma. By high school, he had become nearly silent, a ghost in his own life.
But this is not only a story of damage.
These poems are in the fashion of how conversation can get tied up into knots and it can be hard to know what to say or how to respond or to think. Thinking is influenced by our thoughts and so what we think is made up of words that can be made up of tangled conversational knots from which we try to make sense of reality. Sometimes no matter what you say, one person or both persons in a two person dialog will lose. R. D.
In Three Times a Victim: Living Under the Shadow of Toxic Shame, the author shares a deeply personal and harrowing journey through layers of injustice-first as a victim of a traumatic assault, then as the accused in a cruel reversal of truth, and finally as a casualty of a justice system riddled with gender bias and systemic failure.
This book is dedicated to Lynn Denise Krupey and it's about the love we discovered and shared. It's also about my quest to overcome shyness and to find love. What makes things complicated is that I have always been paralyzed by shyness. I was told and it seems to be the case that the guy has to ask the girl/lady out and not the other way around. This seems brutally unfair and problematic for a shy guy. Who came up with that rule anyway?
This is a collection of poems that in some way relate to mental health, psychological experiences, states of mind and so on. I have relied on my own empathy when describing the experiences of others to present different states of mind or internal experiences as best as this can be done.
Whether one is shy or socially anxious, one might become invisible. Similarly, the homeless are often not seen. What about people with mental illness? Are they seen by you? What assumptions do you have about any of these people? What do you assume about a shy person, a homeless person, someone with mental illness?
This is the story of a life told in poetry—of a boy once invisible who came to feel seen through love, and of a man who lost everything when that love was torn away.
It began when I met Celta, the first person who looked at me as if I was worth loving. Through her eyes, I woke up from the long fog of emotional neglect. After her tragic passing, I met Lynn—my soulmate, my home, my reason to believe that healing was possible.
A loving spouse. A healer. How does this person cope with evil villains willing to destroy everything? They convicted the victim... now how does the victim goes on with life as a healer?
This collection of poems includes themes about very real monsters in the world, metaphorically speaking. The ideas about vampires are that they are without a soul and thus have no conscience, remorse, empathy or compassion. I mention this because this theme was explored in a collection that was published with another poet named Scott Urban who also wrote poems about the macabre.
At the shoreline, the smallest occurrence can open into something infinite.
Letter to: Undisclosed: Toward Justice (Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, Colin Miller) Podcast covering wrongful convictions
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