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January 31, 2015
COR TONANS by JVLIET ESCORIA
I don’t know what I should do with this, with the boiling going on inside my head. I tell myself it’s not real, these are just thoughts, but I fear I might do something stupid. As explosive as I feel, it is nice, too, because I feel like I’m holding onto a secret. I will sit here and brace myself, my knuckles white as my insides burn, and no one will know this fire.
The train comes, and I get on, and the people inside are all quiet. I want to scream at them, to let them know, to show them just what I’ve found:
That you should cut these strings.
You should cut me open.
You should hunt and slay my pink thudding heart.
Your eyes may not show it,
they might not burn with my fever,
but your chest holds one, too.
LET IT OUT.
FRAGMENTVM “Mental Illness on a Weekday,” Black Cloud
Nescio perturbationem animi et hos motus supprimere, qui ut dicam sunt inania, quomodo ventosa mens; metuo tamen ne dolendum faciam. Cum paene me rumpere possim, sic sentire mihi placet quoque, quasi graves res clam teneo. Itaque huc sedens manibus pressis me confirmabo, et nemo me viscera aestuatam sciet.
Commeatus advenit ad quem ascendo, intra quem omnes tacent. Quibus velim clamitare, indicare quid iam invenerim:
Quod has lineas secare oportet.
Tibi me secare.
Venari occidereque meum cor sanguinaeum tonans.
Non appareat in oculis tuis,
qui non aestuent quomodo mei,
sed unum quoque in pectu habetur.
IPSE ID LIBERA.
January 24, 2015
Chelsea Hodson & Juliet Escoria in Conversation
Perhaps the only thing more compelling than reading the last two Emily Books picks— Chelsea Hodson’s Pity the Animal and Juliet Escoria’s Black Cloud— is reading the two writers in conversation. Read on as they share mutual admirations, mutual angst, and other meditations on life and…
This was fun.
January 15, 2015
Gram Parsons/Keith Richards, Joshua Tree
Gram Parsons/Keith Richards, Joshua Tree
These Gram Parsons/Keith Richards pix from Joshua Tree make it...
These Gram Parsons/Keith Richards pix from Joshua Tree make it seem like the ’70s was a magical wonderland. Smells like heroin.
January 14, 2015
I wrote about five anxiety attacks I have had. These anxiety...
I wrote about five anxiety attacks I have had. These anxiety attack stories are not entirely true. I gave them to Willis Plummer and he put them up on his literary site called Western Beefs of North America. You should read them. Then you should read the other writing up on that site. There’s some neat stuff up on there. Thanks, Willis.
From Juliet Escoria's "Black Cloud"
Mental Illness on a Weekday
These days, and I do what I should. I eat breakfast, I get enough sleep, I wash my hair. When I’m troubled, I tell someone who has felt like me. When I’m agitated, I close my eyes, take deep breaths, and treat my thoughts like clouds. I don’t do drugs anymore, even…
ccm-enclave:
Juliet Escoria ( julietescoria ) on how Axl Rose...
Juliet Escoria ( julietescoria ) on how Axl Rose is the most literary rock star:
http://enclave.entropymag.org/axl-rose-is-the-most-literary-rock-star/
January 12, 2015
eBook version of Black Cloud is now available at Emily Books
I feel extremely honored to have the eBook version of Black Cloud published by Emily Books. They’re an amazing little bookseller and have published so many books that I love — work by Chelsea Hodson, Chloe Caldwell, Melissa Broder, Martha Grover, Karolina Waclawiak, Reneta Adler, Eileen Myles, Helen DeWitt, Paula Bomer, and more — wow wow wow! Thank you, Emily & Ruth, for making it happen.
January 10, 2015
hollerpresents:
Cover #3 in observance of what would’ve been...
Cover #3 in observance of what would’ve been Elvis Presley’s 80th birthday last week.
January 9, 2015
New poems up at Two Serious Ladies
Two Serious Ladies is one of my very favorite online lit mags, and I am super excited to have two poems up there. They are called “Flame War” and “Contemporary Guilt.”
