Living lightly

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenk † The Dead Miner (Mourning the Master) by Charles Christian Nahl † The Faithful Hound by sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA † The Orphan. A Memory of Auvergne by August Friedrich Schenk

- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Colored pencil, acrylic, and ink on bristol

[Text ID: “These are the nights when everything cages me: / your gentleness, our love, the spaces between us”]

[Text ID: “I am civilized but my needs are not. What is it that lashes in the darkness?”]

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

[Text ID: “The most brilliant part of / you exists to haunt me:”]

[Text ID: “Sometimes I can’t believe my heart, / how it continues. / how it isn’t black and withered, / how the chambers remain clear / the beat plain and perfect.”]

[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]

[Text ID: “You are taking a class in / indifference. / You want to be able to ignore / his hands”]

[Text ID: “To come to you willingly— / even now I ask foe this ache.”]

[Text ID: “My body is a bruise, purpled with loss. / I am tired of swallowing your name, / finding ink on each of your shirts, / red petals in the pages of books.”]

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]