Escaping the Timeline: Poems on Family, Karma and Boundaries

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