Bee Lavender's Blog - Posts Tagged "memoir"
Space Oddity
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We walked through the pebbled paths of the San Michele Cemetery and I pointed out the symbolism of various styles of headstones. Finally we found the rectangle that read Ezra Pound.
My children stood there squinting in the sunlight as I delivered a monologue about modernism, fascism, freedom, and madness.
With each word I knew they were not really listening, that this was a speech they would never remember. I wanted to mark the event with more than just a snapshot of a headstone and a note in a calendar. I wanted the experience to be important, significant, pivotal. I said, “Do you understand?”
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We walked through the pebbled paths of the San Michele Cemetery and I pointed out the symbolism of various styles of headstones. Finally we found the rectangle that read Ezra Pound.
My children stood there squinting in the sunlight as I delivered a monologue about modernism, fascism, freedom, and madness.
With each word I knew they were not really listening, that this was a speech they would never remember. I wanted to mark the event with more than just a snapshot of a headstone and a note in a calendar. I wanted the experience to be important, significant, pivotal. I said, “Do you understand?”
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Ashes to Ashes
Third and final installment of the junkie stories:
Looking at him that day, I didn’t recognize the bogeyman of my childhood nightmares; it was hard to imagine why the kids in the family had always scattered from every room he entered, why the women avoided his company, why the grown men moved carefully out of his way. click for more
These essays were commissioned and scheduled last summer. It is odd that the series finished in the same week Bowie died, but fitting: my aunt would have been amused by the coincidence.
Ashes to Ashes
Looking at him that day, I didn’t recognize the bogeyman of my childhood nightmares; it was hard to imagine why the kids in the family had always scattered from every room he entered, why the women avoided his company, why the grown men moved carefully out of his way. click for more
These essays were commissioned and scheduled last summer. It is odd that the series finished in the same week Bowie died, but fitting: my aunt would have been amused by the coincidence.
Ashes to Ashes
Cautionary Tales of Childhood
New! Limited edition chapbook/zine featuring stories by Bee Lavender and illustrations by Gabriel Liston. For sale in select stores and via Microcosm. (Not suitable for actual children unless they are the macabre sort)
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