The competition was aimed at women over 40 who felt invisible, so I wrote down the things I knew they would be looking for: grey hair, cancer, new things, and sent them along with the requested full-length picture and a headshot.
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Tag: cancer
Written on the body
There is a map/
on my body /
like one /
of those prized ones, /
in all great storytelling .
‘I will not cry’ by Sandra Richardson
I first heard Sandra Richardson read I will not cry during a Fairytale Medicine workshop. It made me cry then
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Written on my body, steeped in my heart
Grief is just love with no place to go. Paul Denniston, Grief Yoga I had a minor operation yesterday and
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Counting the days
The other day, my youngest said that she felt she was waiting for something and I wondered: Lockdown or something
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