Category: Archetypes, Symbolism, Metaphor, Motif

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solstice

J.A. Carter-Winward

  solstice it is the longest of nights and there is comfort in this blanket of black. it reminds me that we were all once beholden to it. and so i honor this darkness. when i paint i start with a black canvas. when i write i start with a black page. i bring in… Continue reading solstice

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“Sad Discoveries,” by India LaPlace, A Christmas Eve Review

J.A. Carter-Winward

{Warning:This review contains explicit content and language. If you are offended by explicit language and content, feel free to not be. Or feel free to skip this review.  I'm good, either way.} “And if I’d learned that, My marriage might have survived, Or, at least, Maybe my dad wouldn’t tell me That I’m the kind… Continue reading “Sad Discoveries,” by India LaPlace, A Christmas Eve Review

"How Bad Can Good Be?", Akathisia, Archetypes, Symbolism, Metaphor, Motif, Author J.A. Carter-Winward, Author/Poet J.A. Carter-Winward, Coming Soon--in-her-rest-less-ness: prose and poems, Compassion and Empathy, Contraries and Contrasts, Drug Side Effects, Human Nature, the Psyche, Life, Life and Death, Light and Dark, Neurological Movement Disorders, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Subconscious, Subjective Experience, The Word, Trauma, Writers, Writing, Writing in Blood, Writing Life, Writing Process

Final Chapter: Healing

J.A. Carter-Winward

  My book, in-her-rest-less-ness: poems & prose, was finished, but I couldn't quite say it was "finished-finished." Now I know why. There was no chapter, a final chapter, on healing. And so I'm going to the desert to finish the book. I'm going to heal. And I will be back. I'm going to the desert… Continue reading Final Chapter: Healing

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Thoughts on “Grief – A Poem” by Cynthia Pitman

J.A. Carter-Winward

Today I’m going to address this poem because it was more than what it seems—and is, if you know anything about loss. Find the original poem HERE on Vita Brevis Poetry Magazine. Every so often I come across a poem that feels like a perfect poem. What does a “perfect poem” look like, read like?… Continue reading Thoughts on “Grief – A Poem” by Cynthia Pitman

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New Year Must-Do’s Redux

J.A. Carter-Winward

It's that time of year again. The "I WILL read ______ this year." For some, it's Moby Dick. Others, War and Peace, or Ulysses. For many late-Boomers and Gen-Xers, the generation's most talked-about literary wonder was--and remains--David Foster Wallace's epic novel, Infinite Jest. I read it back in 2016. Then I read it again in… Continue reading New Year Must-Do’s Redux