Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose
    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose
    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose
    Ebook8 pages3 minutes

    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose

    By J. Elk-Baptisté

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose
    Prose by J. Elk-Baptisté for your enjoyment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Elk-Baptisté
    Release dateMar 1, 2019
    ISBN9780463265949
    You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose
    Author

    J. Elk-Baptisté

    J. Elk-Baptisté the author of The Story of Tump, many short stories, poetry and lyrics. He and his family reside in Tasmania.

    Read more from J. Elk Baptisté

    Related to You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Dec 1, 2022

      You have to first Sit in the temple gloom In the mahogany chair & despair. The only glimmer In the temple (being the inlaid bits of The Mother-Of-Pearl shells On the tall, more than humanly tall Chair back, for these These too Are the reputed “Tears

      3 min read

    • Article

      “Soonest Mended”

      Sep 6, 2017

      “Soonest Mended”
      3 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

      6 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

      Jun 15, 2018

      And, after the explosion, made spheres sing,A pure expression of pure poetry,Like rising rain or a nation with noFlag—. Something that whispers as the airDoes just before the lightning comes. A pureExpression of the breaks in the blank lakesOn Neptun

      2 min read

    • Article

      Becoming Us

      Jun 23, 2023

      Becoming Us
      3 min read

    • Article

      London England

      Feb 5, 2020

      London England
      2 min read

    • Article

      READER Reviews

      Apr 8, 2020

      One of my favourite parts of this book is the map because it maps out the routes that all the female adventurers took. Each of the women went on their own adventures and through this book, I got to explore with them. Most of the time, the journeys we

      5 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Animals that moveon small, short legs. Sand that sucks inanything / anyone. Something seenthrough a torn screen I hadn’t expected it. We all havethese genesthese sequencesof numbers I don’t knowhow they arewhat they are. This is youevery dayright now

      2 min read

    • Article

      TWO ESSAYS from FINGER EXERCISES FOR POETS

      Nov 1, 2022

      Russian Formalists have a word, “ostranenie,” which means constantly attempting to discover new ways of looking at everyday things. There are almost always two realities rubbing up against one another in every poem, whether they are specified or not,

      10 min read

    • Article

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Being a Fox

      Nov 1, 2017

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Being a Fox
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Stars Are a Comforting Constant: A poet blends the personal with the cosmic.

      Dec 1, 2016

      The first time I saw a meteor, I’d slipped outside to lie in the grass after everyone else had gone to sleep. The daytime commotion of my cousins’ and siblings’ games and my Poppop’s blaring polka music often drove me to tears. As an introvert, I wan

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      May 1, 2019

      Dear Everybuggy, Last time I wrote to you, I lived in North Carolina, but we have moved. We live in Virginia now. I love Cricket! I like space. I’m homeschooled and like to look at our map. I’ve discovered towns like Philadelphia in Mississippi! Phil

      7 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      At first these poems were their own sweetfurlough or as Basquiat did it the reflexiveopening of a new personal phase for mealone that many have traveled beforebut never together a phrase too busy to sitand be spoken that awakens to the recurringwave

      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2023

      A set of instructionsfor making instructions. That’s a virus— pure, unencumberedvalue, money making moneyin a host’s cells, so streamlined,it’s redundant. But what goodis a metaphor weighed downwith obscure reference when what’s wantedis the zing of

      1 min read

    • Article

      Spell Bound

      Oct 6, 2022

      Spell Bound
      7 min read

    • Article

      More Power To Her

      Aug 20, 2023

      More Power To Her
      3 min read

    • Article

      Rooted

      May 10, 2019

      Rooted
      9 min read

    • Article

      G’day – And Goodbye

      Aug 25, 2021

      G’day – And Goodbye
      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      In class, I stared because of the blood going blue.The chalk that coated our fingerly teeth.The way we lapped each other (on the shorewhere the flowering). I gave away our location. Smacked my lips in the coat closet.Sucked at her teeth. We, on all e

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Sep 1, 2020

      Five Poems
      4 min read

    • Article

      Author In Crisis

      Mar 1, 2024

      Author In Crisis
      3 min read

    • Article

      Vivian Pham On Reigniting Our Inner Child

      Aug 2, 2020

      IT IS A strange time to be alive, and an even stranger time to be a child. Toddlers today are only doing it for the first time and should not therefore be regarded as authorities in their field. Only handfuls of humans have managed to remain in the E

      4 min read

    • Article

      READER Reviews

      Dec 3, 2020

      by Laura Dockrill and illustrated by Gwen Millward Piccadilly Press, £9.99 Review by Esmeralda, age eight This story is called Butterfly Brain. It is written in verse, and it is about a little boy called Asparagus – or Gus for short – who always

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      You Are a Good Girl, Dandelion & Other Prose - J. Elk-Baptisté

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1