My, My, My, My, My

by Tara Hardy

Overview

Suddenly stricken by a life-threatening condition, the author finds she has slipped into an alternate reality–one in which her life and her livelihood are no longer to be counted on. Oddly, she finds it's a place populated with not just hope, but a newfound appreciation for the splendors of the physical world. Her fight to stay alive, while terrifying, is deeply vibrant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938912641
Publisher:	Write Bloody Publishing
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Pages:	100
Sales rank:	1,289,841
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Tara Hardy, author of Bring Down the Chandeliers, by Write Bloody Press, is a former Richard Hugo House Writer in Residence, former Seattle Poet Populist, alumnae of Hedgebrook, and founder of Bent Writing Institute for LGBTQ writers. She is currently an instructor at Seattle Central College, Richard Hugo House and Path With Art. She holds an MFA from Vermont College.

Read an Excerpt

FLEW

Last summer, while the healthy

were out picnicking and dashing

skip-ily across crosswalks, I was making

friends with a spider who had taken

up residence in a corner

outside my window. She was fast

and brutal, would wait for sunset

when the bugs came out and then

pounce. I watched her suck the life

outa the heads of several bees

while I cheered. Until the day a ladybug

clearly out past curfew, started

waddling across the window

towards the web. I considered

tapping on the glass

to warn the lady, but

then I thought, why should just

the pretty survive? Who am I

to re-route fate? So, I did nothing

but watch life dish up life's

terms. Me, sick and brutally

awed in my pink chemotherapy gown

watching as God marched

that lady nine inches two inches three

millimeters away

from the web,

when to my marvel

at the velocity of life,

there in the twilight,

she flew.