Category: Cancer journey

  • Lady K eye tumor update as positive as possible

    Lady K had a cat scan today to see if her eye cancer had spread. It tends to spread to and from the liver and lungs. Her liver is clean, and they found a couple small spots in her lungs which they say are probably benign and nothing to worry about, but which they will […]

  • Walking on Thin Ice

    In the months after we hooked up, I’d collapse on his rocking chair sofa and poof into smoke. He told me the rest of his stories for his memoir. I tore down his cancer. I spackled the walls. I barfed as he was irradiated. We made art.

  • Do the right thing

    Interview with church people, speculation & rumors.

  • Maybe Heaven is Supposed to be this Planet

    Maybe Heaven is supposed to be this Planet. This is the butterfly that’s going to carry me home, and this is the trash I’m going to pick up later, I hope.

  • TESTAMENT

    This is my testament.

  • happily ever after

    New piece finished Sept. 8 It’s our second anniversary. Smith & I hooked up September 9, 2005. We’re in bed. I look into his eyes, and his face looks friendly. “Your irises have a purple edge,” I say. “And then they’re green and orange and rust brown next to the pupils.” “They’re hazel,” he says. […]

  • synopsis 2002-2006

    I left my husband in 2 oh oh 2 for poetry. A month later, I was laid off and a firefighter poet moved in with me. I never got back into an engineering job. I resorted to web development for a couple years at less than half my former salary. In March ’05, I became […]

  • At the hospital

    Oh, I love him and it hurts. White-knuckled, time fast and furious in the waiting room. I read and re-read the same paragraphs. Try to get lost in reading, try not thinking about Steve.He’s in the bowels of the hospital where I cannot be.They’re cutting him, scooping out polyps from his nose and taking a […]

  • Messy beginnings

    Kathy n i for European flow are thinking a few weeks in England to attend the Rainbow Gathering, awhile in Amsterdam, awhile in Spain, then visit Prague on the way to stay a bit in Lithuania. any suggestions welcome.anyone in England have any camping gear to rent?we also have to leave our cat 3PO behind […]