Bailey Merlin
Redistribution
Your head is a Lazy Susan spinning busy, out of control like the wheels of time grinding you down. Are you feeling a pinch of panic at the bottom of your soul? Did you decide what to do about those barren salt wells that are sunken into your face? If I promised that you’d be fine, would you blink away those ellipses that linger on your lashes? Would you find a way to rest your lazy head and learn how to build a little brick house to cohabitate with your thoughts?
Striped I fell from a dock in the summer, split my hand open like a ripened fig, blood drip-dropping to ruddy the waves while I gulped down salty red, I swam to shore, hand raised above my head, looki
This year has already been so busy. Marriage. Grad School. Research Project. Promotion. And now, at last, I can put my dream on that list: Novel Publication. That’s right, ladies and gentlethems, my n
With school in full swing, creative writing has taken a back seat outside class. However, readings about illness narratives have translated into some interesting exercises. In honoring this blog, I wa