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
- Spiny Leaf Insect
- Royal Pain
- My Daughter, the Insurrectionist
- Getting Along with In-Laws
- Post-Exorcism Damage Control
- Insomnia Anyway
- The Smell of Bread
- Neuralgia
- 11 PM

Chapter 2: Growing Up for the Children


- First Time Cook
- A Dream Where I Meet Repressed Rage
- First to Outgrow
- Literary Scene
- Retreat
- Welcome to your beautiful stream
- Internal Crisis
- Don't Rescue. The Desert is Infinite Potential Energy
- Cthulu
- Rope Fell Out of the Sewing Box
- Four Seasons Toward Self-Love
- Hoodoo Rocks
- Ri(f)t
- Obligations and Torture at Christmas
- Emotion-dumpers and Energy-feeders
- Not Smothering to Bother With
- Escaping the Timeline

Chapter 3: Finding the Grace in Everything


- Si(gh)t
- Protecting the Blessings
- Learning Integrity
- Loose ends
- Blue hands
- Suspended
- Viewing Drinkwater's Ocean Face Bronze
- Viewing Ronald Ong's Heights
- Marble Caves
- Nudibranchs
- G-force Nine
- Lift
- Dracaena Cinnabari
- Lighting Incense to Ancestors
- The Beaches Parkrun, Australia, December