Arterial bypass

The Road rises up and enfolds me, the river flows like a welcome shawl At the Inmtersection of time, memories and dreams Ghosts and Angels collide I was here, I was here, I was here �...

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Cutting Melons

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        And so life goes on after Cancer. The world is still a beautiful place. There are melons ripe for the plucking everywhere. 

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    Pills and potions drugs and powders - all of it a gamble. There are no guarantees, only risks and uncertainties.

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We had a chat my breasts and I Before their cut, our last goodbye I told them how they’d lead the way To book my place where cherubs lay They’d go on ahead beyond death’s door So that I mig...

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    By now I had been through Chemo and two surgeries...  When the surgeons shook their heads and told me the margins from the lumpectomy were unclear,  that I needed a double...

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  My glass is empty  and there is  a volcano in my chest  Soon it's going to erupt and life as I know it will be petrified 

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 This is what it feels like to be undergoing cancer treatment.  .

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This is what chemotherapy feels like. There is nothing else.

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Before going to the doctors,  there is a sense that something is wrong. I find a lump. I am a seismologist. a miner,  the geosurveillance  of my body begins with sharp tools ...

http://arterialbypass.blogspot.com/2013/09/cancer-oh-my-gouache-mining-for-grief.html

I am in the garden  I am doing yoga I am limber and fit  My diet is carefully considered  Cancer? It won't happen to me, I think I am blindfolded   and  smug.  

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For me, this was what it was like:  the words came from the doctor's mouth like a weapon,  a serrated wheel, Am ancient weapon of torture  I was flattened. Everything became still ...

http://arterialbypass.blogspot.com/2013/09/cancer-oh-my-guache-diagnosis.html

  Almost one year  ago I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer To say it  floored me would not do justice to the shock of the news , even though  after my diagnosis I came home and lay on the c...

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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO AN EVENING OF GORGEOUS FASHION, ART AND BUBBLES!        IN BRENDALE!             PLEASE JOIN US TO RAISE MONEY FOR CANCER RE...

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PAIN, I KNOW YOUR TRICKS I KNOW THE SCORE. YOUR WILES AND WHIMS YOUR GUISE, YOUR CLAWS YOUR HUNGRY BITE YOUR DESPERATE KICK TO TURN THE DUST TO DUST. BUT HERE'S THE TRUTH, PAIN, YOUR PAR...

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1.       The heads   All of them bald, not serendipitous  though  accidental. A  sisterhood –    at  the Look Good, feel Good (even when cancer  brings its ...

http://arterialbypass.blogspot.com/2013/01/look-good-feel-good.html

Watch your words the easy roll of your tongue, "I’ll never find a man" Those loose lines you scatter to the Gods Like grains of rice to appease demons or shower bride grooms. ...

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I've been very quiet here on this blog this year - I'm startled when I realise its been months since I've taken a moment to post anything. The reason is very simple - I've been furiously stud...

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A dreamy bird - a birdy dream - the dream bird who melds in the dark

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Today it is Sunday January 8th  2012 and just this very moment I have written "THE END" to the conclusion of my 4 book time-travel/alien conspiracy/ancient fantasy  series called THE SEEP... T...

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2011 has been the year of the wolf the year Xavier left home the year my sister gor Cancer  the year life took us through the dark glades where sorrows hide but through which light glimme...

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I created this little picture yesterday on a throw away scrap of canvas using throw away bits: bottles of unused nail polish, scraps of weave, sequins and other detritus from the studio - all of ...

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He follows her, present but absent into the opportunity shop. His fingers magicking  shapes and sound on his pixelated world. "I wish you wouldn't waste so much time on that thing,...

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