Escaping the Timeline: Poems on Family, Karma and Boundaries

If you intend on a new start, avoiding the fractal vise of old entanglements, Escaping the Timeline is a restorative collection of poetry exploring the path between doing no harm and taking no crap.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Family Snapshot

• Compass

• Spiny Leaf Insect

• Royal Pain

• My Daughter, the Insurrectionist

• Getting Along with In-Laws

• Post-Exorcism Damage Control

• Insomnia Anyway

• The Smell of Bread

• Neuralgia

• 11 PM

Chapter 2: Growing Up for the Children

• First Time Cook

• A Dream Where I Meet Repressed Rage

• First to Outgrow

• Literary Scene

• Retreat

• Welcome to your beautiful stream

• Internal Crisis

• Don't Rescue. The Desert is Infinite Potential Energy

• Cthulu

• Rope Fell Out of the Sewing Box

• Four Seasons Toward Self-Love

• Hoodoo Rocks

• Ri(f)t

• Obligations and Torture at Christmas

• Emotion-dumpers and Energy-feeders

• Not Smothering to Bother With

• Escaping the Timeline

Chapter 3: Finding the Grace in Everything

• Si(gh)t

• Protecting the Blessings

• Learning Integrity

• Loose ends

• Blue hands

• Suspended

• Viewing Drinkwater's Ocean Face Bronze

• Viewing Ronald Ong's Heights

• Marble Caves

• Nudibranchs

• G-force Nine

• Lift

• Dracaena Cinnabari

• Lighting Incense to Ancestors

• The Beaches Parkrun, Australia, December