by Mary E. Lowd
I’ve been managing other people’s feelings
Since before I could speak
I calmed my mother
Enraged my father Continue reading “Sisters”
Author: marylowd
While in Copenhagen…
After some deliberation, we’ve concluded that while I’m willing to try to stay awake for a couple more hours for the sake of trying to be on local time… I am not actually fit to leave the place we’re staying and interact with the outside world until I’ve slept again. Sleeeeep…. Continue reading “While in Copenhagen…”
More Sense Than Coffee Spoons
by Mary E. Lowd
Sometimes my life feels like a budget
I need to balance
Allocating hours
To some activities, at the expense of others
Trying to optimize
My time Continue reading “More Sense Than Coffee Spoons”
The Hourglass
by Mary E. Lowd
Am I the hour glass
Or the sand passing through
Its gossamer waist
One grain at a time? Continue reading “The Hourglass”
Zoetrope
by Mary E. Lowd
You only see a zoetrope of my life
Sampling more regularly sometimes
Less regularly others
And yet you know me so well Continue reading “Zoetrope”
Experimental Online Comic –> Graphic Novel
With the latest update to ChatGPT, converting the first strip of SPACE HOUNDS! into a normal graphic novel page took one command: “redo this in an appropriate art style.”
So, yeah, maybe it’s just about time to finally turn SPACE HOUNDS! into an actual graphic novel. Continue reading “Experimental Online Comic –> Graphic Novel”
Merriment Better than a Crown
by Mary E. Lowd
The lion, coyote, and bear
Argue and fight
Who is best?
Who is right? Continue reading “Merriment Better than a Crown”
The Luna Moth’s Moon Tree
by Mary E. Lowd
She tends her own tree
Unbothered by the chaos below
They have nothing she needs
Only chaos to sow Continue reading “The Luna Moth’s Moon Tree”
Learning to Sleep with a CPAP Machine
Going to sleep listening to the Wicked soundtrack and waking up just as Elphaba sings, “It’s too late to go back to sleep…” Continue reading “Learning to Sleep with a CPAP Machine”
Yellowjackets, AI, The Residence
Yellowjackets is a wish-fulfillment show.
The wish is that middle-aged women get to be complicated and broken, but still receive empathy and be seen; that they get to commit atrocities like men do all the time and still have us rooting for them, still get centered in the story. Continue reading “Yellowjackets, AI, The Residence”