I turned 26 in the Alaska arctic. I owned two suitcases and the items that filled them. I was single, wrote daily and planned to spend the following winter in Russia. I turned 27 on the beachy peninsula that composes the Outer Banks. I was five months pregnant and engaged to be married. I turned [...]
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H1N1 — A Spooky Poem
Posted in Fiction, tagged flu, health, hysteria, literature, Mental Health, motherhood, paranoia, parenting, Poetry, swine flu, virus on October 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The paranoia was getting to me; Mounting like the sound of television until I swallowed it down; And it was mine: This quiet, self-conscious hysteria. Swine flu, flu, vaccinations, immunizations, Germ-X Fighting goblins and ghosts no bigger than air no, smaller than air, with inaudible boos. You were a potential threat. You, my potential enemy. [...]
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