Let me take you down, Cause I’m going to…
What if a river otter happened to stroll on by… Continue reading “A River Otter Visits Strawberry Fields Forever”
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Let me take you down, Cause I’m going to…
What if a river otter happened to stroll on by… Continue reading “A River Otter Visits Strawberry Fields Forever”
I’d like to be…
It’s the same octopus. It just changed colors when its friend the otter showed up. Continue reading “A River Otter Visits an Octopus’s Garden”
by Mary E. Lowd
Written on Twitter, 12/18/2023
There are tiny birds
In the leaf-barren trees
Outside my window
But you know how if you’re wading in the ocean and then like a surprisingly big wave comes and knocks you right in the stomach and knocks you all the way over and you’re tumbling in the surf trying to get the sand out of your mouth and…
…you know you’re not actually gonna get swept out to sea and drown and that you’ll just get yourself home and dried off and it’ll all be okay but also you’re gonna flinch every time you think of the ocean again forever because it was such a hard punch that stings so bad… Continue reading “Standing Right Back Up After the Wave Knocks Me Down”
A couple times in my life, I’ve had men say to me that they wondered whether I cared about anyone else at all. And it’s such a deeply weird thing to say to someone. Who doesn’t care about anyone else at all?
In retrospect, I guess I kinda have to wonder if they were projecting.
It’s a pretty big red flag. I don’t really see a friendship coming back from that.
Gravity continues to be the hardest thing for me to remember to mention in my sci-fi…
As such, I’m going back and adding references to and description of the low gravity on the back of the world turtle in earlier chapters of this Tri-Galactic Trek novel that’s almost done.
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
Creating images
Through conversation
Adjectives for a paintbrush
My chisel is verbs Continue reading “Sculpting with Words”
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original
I write down my words
And save them carefully
This is me
And I value me
These words are a snapshot
Of myself in this moment Continue reading “I Wrote a Poem While Walking on the Beach”
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
That feeling when
Every possible thing
You could do seems too hard…
Except for writing poetry Continue reading “A Drop of Blood”
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
We make up rules
To help survive the chaos
But when the chaos
Changes the world
So the rules no longer make sense Continue reading “Follow the Rules to Ruin”