Rebecca Trowbridge

Escaping the Timeline Rebecca Trowbridge

If you intend on a new start, avoiding the fractal vise of old entanglements, Escaping the Timeline is a restorative collection of poetry exploring the path between doing no harm and taking no crap.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 - Family Snapshot

Compass 9

Spiny Leaf Insect 10

Royal Pain 12

My Daughter, the Insurrectionist 13

Getting Along with In-Laws 14

Post-Exorcism Damage Control 16

Insomnia Anyway 18

The Smell of Bread 19

Neuralgia 20

11 PM 22

Chapter 2 -Growing Up for the Children

First Time Cook 25

A Dream Where I Meet Repressed Rage 26

First to Outgrow 27

Literary Scene 29

Retreat 30

Welcome to your beautiful stream 31

Internal Crisis 34

Don't Rescue. The Desert is Infinite Potential Energy 36

Cthulu 38

Rope Fell Out of the Sewing Box 40

Ri(f)t 41

Four Seasons Toward Self-Love 42

Hoodoo Rocks 46

Obligations and Torture at Christmas 48

Emotion-dumpers and Energy-feeders 50

Not Smothering to Bother With 52

Escaping the Timeline 55

Finding the Grace in Everything

Si(gh)t 59

Protecting the Blessings 60

Learning Integrity 62

Loose ends 64

Blue hands 66

Suspended 67

Viewing Drinkwater's Ocean Face Bronze 68

Lift 69

Viewing Ronald Ong's Heights 70

Marble Caves 72

Nudibranchs 74

G-force Nine 76

Dracaena Cinnabari 79

Lighting Incense to Ancestors 81

The Beaches Parkrun, Australia, December 84