Deb Nanson
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2015/07/30/a-place-to-call-home
about Evergreen 2
The second chapbook to be released by Deb Nanson, these poems were written during her incarceration and eventual rehabilitation. Detailing her journeys, struggles, addictions and losses, Evergreen 2 measures the past with an honest voice. These poems are brutally honest, open and tender.
from Evergreen 2
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-Dec 30/04
reaching deeper than i thought i could ever reach inside my mind, i have
touched a place that was so deeply wounded
there was nothing dysfunctional love could do to dull this ache, the ache
i have no means to repair in a normal setting
welcome to my world complete with physical abuse, verbal abuse and with
some sad reason a place to perform this unwritten play called my life
reaching deep i realize that the feelings i carry are of fear based
hatred
an emotion i shall carry through out my existence on this family
plane
then i found i could do that also along with be able to find a new way to
to alleviate the pain stuff down the anger
go on with life as i know it to be
beatings
more beatings
bruises
scars
entering this feeling of an i do not have to take anymore of this
enter drugs
enter
men sex condoms, no condoms, no sex just act of false pretenses one
might say
i'd say robbery
enter the robberies of life
robbery of self