Collapse Trauma (Part 1): “Untergliechness"
I justify this dark obsession—the vicarious mental reenactment of my death—by anchoring it to a forensic engineer's technical deconstruction
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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor
Jacqueline
- Jul 3, 2021
- 9 min
His Ghostly Presence in the Mirror: Using Creative Writing to Capture Paranormal Experiences
If you are interested in writing about your paranormal experiences, consider using fiction as an option to disclose your story.
Jacqueline
- Jun 23, 2021
- 4 min
Using Poetry to Heal Current and Past Life Suffering
The process of writing poetry offers a sense of release and healing. Poetry can also help us to work through current and past life issues.
Jacqueline
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
One Step Up, Two Steps Down: A Semi-Poetic Response to Nonlinear Spiritual Development
Resistant to the call, disdainful and intolerant of embarking on such a path, spirituality arrived like a sledgehammer.
Jacqueline
- Sep 9, 2020
- 1 min
How to Fake It 'Til You Make It
Endure, safe-guard,
allocate & squander your best years
to this inscrutable quest.
Then...metamorphosize
into a thing of splendor.
Jacqueline
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
The Manse on the Hill (Weeping for Home)
Despair shifts like the tide,
and I am pulled down once again by an undertow of history.
Jacqueline
- Jan 31, 2019
- 5 min
Walking Together in a Small German Town
Accounts of an astral visitation with Hans + poem that resulted from the encounter.
Jacqueline
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
A Valkyrie’s Love Poem for the Trees
They have destroyed your
beauty, your canopy that once enfolded me into
your splendor.
Jacqueline
- Aug 29, 2017
- 2 min
Head Full of Stars (Unrequited Love Poem, Part 2)
Me, dressed in the finest intentions, glancing over, once, and then–the sky opened up. You were heavenly, frightfully sublime...
Jacqueline
- Jul 13, 2017
- 1 min
Hurricane Andrew (a recurring dream)
When reality suffuses
our castle in the air,
the yearning resumes its poisoned trail,
weighing the heart.
fogging the mind.
Jacqueline
- Apr 2, 2017
- 3 min
Dear Ryan…
You passed away on June 2, 2016, in your house. You left behind a partner, a two-year-old daughter, a sister, a brother, and your parents.
Jacqueline
- Nov 16, 2008
- 1 min
Lake Champlain in November
It’s nearly 12pm, windy and with a charcoal gray sky. The trees are bare, exposing large nests that had been carefully constructed...
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