June 21, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
Men. A constant desire, sometimes simmering, often burning. Never sated. And for him, I knew, it had been even longer.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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June 14, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
I made this dangerous anomaly. I think I might have made it on purpose. I think maybe I asked for this interruption.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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May 31, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
It was cold on the floor, I confess, but I thought it was OK. Since he left, I wake up every morning and marvel at all the me-warmed space on the mattress.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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May 8, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
I studied the rustle of the stately rain tree when I couldn’t see the blackboard and knew Pollock’s Number 30 before I ever experienced autumn.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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April 19, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
I don’t mind when men talk and talk; then I don’t have to do anything. They fall in love all by themselves.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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March 22, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
Momma’s bones are broken in so many places that the images look like fins in their oceanic blue-black glow. She’s lost so much lately.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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February 27, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
You, waking from dreams of dinosaurs, exploring deep in the ocean, worlds where Care Bears and Popples are real, listening.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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February 20, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
You mutter “Fuck you” under your breath at his daily counting routine, for the apathy it shows for the hell the world is girdled in.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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January 23, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
List To-Dos. Vent secret frustrations. Compose abominable poems. Dream impossible fantasies.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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January 18, 2023 · Creative Nonfiction
As our postcoital conversations pushed us further and further away from each other, I lounged in his bed, nibbling on a melting L or Q or F.
Crow Jonah Norlander
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