writing

A memoir of recovery from childhood trauma, told through poetry, experimental writing, surrealism, and occasional art and music.
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writing
Buried Alive public
writing 1 min read

Buried Alive

Could those human bones we dug up that time have been cursed? Could I have been cursed? Could we have been cursed? We put them back, but maybe that didn’t help. I did everything I could to avoid digging up the bones of my assault.…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
Random Encounter public
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Random Encounter

As we wept—my father and I—I wondered if it was for his friend, after all. I wondered if it was for him. I wonder if it was for me.…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
Anguinum public
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Anguinum

The original trauma was birth and everthying that follows is but preparation for the trauma of death. Of letting go of all that we have learned. It is only through remembering that we can die because remembering is to forget.…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
My Vertical Interrogation public
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My Vertical Interrogation

I believe I am the figment of a little boy’s imagination. He’s trying to imagine himself in the future. In a different future than the one he expects. I am ten years old imaging I am sixty-three.…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
We Begin public
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We Begin

that was how it started, this is how it started, that death, this death, two points, on an imaginary line, only one point, on a circle, a clock...…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
The Custom of Violence public
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The Custom of Violence

In the earliest grades he was a bit of a bully. If his family hadn’t moved he likely would have continued on a trajectory towards becoming a very bad person. However, and somehow, the move to another state affected him in such a manner that he effectively began learning how to be a human being.…
Eric Jennings
Eric Jennings
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