Escaping the Timeline: Poems on Family, Karma and Boundaries

By Rebecca Trowbridge

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:
Acknowledgements
Author Biography
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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca Trowbridge
• Release date: Feb 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005765248

Rebecca Trowbridge

Bi-racial, multi-language, author and self-translator, coming off a plane on a balmy night, geology, scientific method, new age mother, daughter is the first daughter of a first daughter of a first daughter of a first daughter, other child is the second child of a second child of a second child, kitsch, amusement rides in shopping centres, carnivals, music cul-de-sac, people who draw, words, night-time jazz, Tom Waits in the early 70s, writing in the wee hours, comfortable underground, eating not cooking, tea rather than coffee but coffee ok even instant, French winters, Melbourne summers, pretentious anytime, skiing, softball, touch football, good times with friends and family, forget to wear costume jewelry, family planning, hot chocolate instead of champagne, noice hotels, texture, yellow, orange, ok all colours, listening practice, always wanted to do a backflip, gratitude, shandies, So You Think You Can Dance without the screaming audience without the judges and without the phone voting, karma and always learning, mentor, truth, looking at the ocean, looking at the sky, every moment counts, baby animals, interactive zoos, source of the pain, 5 whys, psychology, computer addiction however not a facebook addiction, expensive cigars gone stale, custard, apple pie, soft drinks are not for kids, WTF, no gardening but will pull out weeds, life is but a dream, can't go past the eel at a Japanese Restaurant, attitude, self-exploration, accidentally give away the end to movies and books, deep abiding devotion to Survivor reality show...

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