Notes from the Kitchen After Midnight
I swallow against the hand on my throat. Lean into the discomfort, it will all make sense one day. This is the stuff of character. I tell them, “this is not about you.” But, they sign their names to it anyway, claim me with ink. This is not about you.
I see someone else in the mirror and she hates herself and I don’t want to hate myself but I can’t stop eating meals and thinking how nice it was to drink only tea in a day. How clean it felt.
There should be a pill for this. Loneliness. They’d market it as a miracle drug and charge you an arm and a leg, literally. It would make you fall asleep and you would dream only in colours. Warm yellow folding you up.
We eat lunch in a window and I tell him that pregnancy scares the shit out of me, that I imagine the fetus exploding from my belly like an alien. His laughter reminds me of the summer but there is still snow on the ground and ice in the driveway.
I don’t put much stock in anything but when he finds me in the kitchen at midnight I lean back against his chest and let him make me small, packed tight between his arms. Full.
The fridge humming. The black mouth of the drain. Our darkness swallowing me up.
Scary, but as always, pitch perfect. Well written. Hope you’re OK.
Your writing motivates and inspires me… to write more, and better. thank you. -Tina
this is really lovely. i really like everything you write, your voice is so strong and clear. also, i’ve just noticed on my blog traffic feed that there is someone in South Carolina who searches for the name of my blog on bing, multiple times a week. they nearly time my entire URL into the search bar, every time. This person then clicks on my tab for “favorite blogs”, under which you’re listed and visits your blog, multiple times every time they visit mine. I’m not even sure that this person even reads my blog! I think that it’s just someone who doesn’t know how to use the internet and can’t figure out how to find your blog without first searching for mine on bing. Anyway, this cracks me up and I thought I’d share, hopefully it makes you laugh too!
“There should be a pill for this. Loneliness. They’d market it as a miracle drug and charge you an arm and a leg, literally. It would make you fall asleep and you would dream only in colours. Warm yellow folding you up.”
A short poem I adore.
I’ll say it again: you inspire me to write. WRITE write. you’re a writer, not a blogger. And if I haven’t said it before, I am saying it now.