Creative nonfiction is the term of choice these days. It certainly didn’t start that way, and there are still several other ways of referring to “that way of writing” which readers might also be familiar with: literary nonfiction, literary journalism, narrative prose, you get the idea. We’re trying to find a way to nail this baby, the “baby” being, in the short form of the definition, the application of literary techniques to documentary material.
Fun with Autobiography
Homunculus
Little Wolf: Let’s Make Some Memories
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Tree branches touching
in the breeze of autumn:
to have known you this way
is no less touching
for its randomness, its
avolitional
Dermographism
All dark long drafting in bed,
I scratch my longing down your shoulder blades—
Your dual-purpose back, a dry erase board,
upraises pink wherever I touch it.
Mark a wild garden. A map you read
each morning in the mirror.
A hidden-in-skin compass: rose lines & needles,