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When you can’t read anymore or go to one more support group meeting, sometimes art can help inspire you. Here are some suggestions and we welcome yours, too.<\/p>\n

If there is some piece of art that has substantially lifted your spirits around this addiction, we’d love to know about it!<\/h3>\n

However, please know that while all art will be looked at, we do have space limitations so we will use our discretion, and responsibility to others, as to what we will share with other visitors here.<\/p>\n

Photography:<\/h3>\n

My dear friend Brad Oliphant<\/a> who is a world-class photographer has donated his uplifting nature and wildlife photography to adorn our site because he so believes in our vision here at PoSARC. He sees himself as wanting to help heal those who are hurting, through his incredibly inspiring art. You will see that the evocative emotional tone of the images resonate with our PoSA experiences. bradoliphantphotography.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Poetry:<\/h3>\n

After I Found the Emails<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Tania Rochelle<\/a>
\nPublished in\u00a0The World’s Last Bone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

AFTER I FOUND THE EMAILS<\/strong>
\nmy breasts were never good enough.
\nHis assistant was a big girl\u2014
\na Daytona Beach blond
\nwith a tongue ring\u2014strange stuff.<\/p>\n

I was small and spent,
\nlike lunch money, where she
\nwas a full piggy bank.<\/p>\n

He called her Missy
\nand she called him
\nGreggy, a disappointment\u2014<\/p>\n

Maybe you should buy me
\nsomething sexy, hers read.
\nLet\u2019s go to Frederick\u2019s, his said,
\nand I pictured them fingering
\ncrotchless panties
\nthe way he and I lingered
\nover pansies at Pike’s.<\/p>\n

I surfed online for plastic
\nsurgeons, someone
\nwho could make me bob
\nwhere I flowed; I figured
\nmy husband owed me that.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why
\nI didn\u2019t fault my lips or eyes,
\nthe wilting flowers
\nof my lids, my tiny change-purse
\nmouth. Or I could have pinned
\nit on my un-holey tongue.<\/p>\n

Breasts seemed more practical
\nthan piercing. Besides,
\nmy gag reflex was in rare high gear.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I talked myself out of it.
\nNothing would make me feel better.<\/p>\n

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Parts of Speech<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Terre<\/p>\n

Painfully (adverb) awash in rage
\nat an addict man
\nwho hurt me and
\nthen refused to
\nempathize with my agony.<\/p>\n

He (pronoun) seemed, in fact,
\nto relish my sobbing and
\nmy selling myself out
\nover and over again
\nin my desperation to stay
\nconnected with him.<\/p>\n

For (preposition) all my clutching,
\nI got only armsfull
\nof his addiction.
\nUntil my empty heart broke,
\nno longer sacred.<\/p>\n

Rage (noun) runs dripping
\nfrom my fingertips,
\nfilling the room with
\na stench, much like the
\nsmell of his cruelty.<\/p>\n

And (conjunction) then I
\nremembered that he, too,
\nsuffered hideous traumas.
\nCompassion
\nrarely found its way to him.<\/p>\n

Damn! (interjection) Just damn.
\nHe survived soul-murder
\nand his wounds now reek addiction.<\/p>\n

Compassion (verb), I realized
\nthat I must compassion
\nand compassion and compassion
\nand it will take
\nevery ounce of effort
\nI can muster.<\/p>\n

Until I am strong enough
\nto live compassion as a noun\u2014
\ncompassion is a verb,
\ncompassion is a verb,
\ncompassion is a verb.<\/em><\/p>\n

Literature<\/h3>\n

Divine Comedy <\/em><\/strong>by Dante Alighieri<\/p>\n

Something about the cause-and-effect justice of The Inferno was pretty delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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