Shaven Head
I flirt with the herbal smoke / And Allah burns in the distance / A sacrifice of meat and wool / Take toubab as an offering / The head is shaved / It knows not the god ‘cept t
The Tragedy of a Sentence
‘I’m stupid about executions.’ Sylvia Plath, ‘The Bell Jar’ I’m haunted by Sylvia Plath. Why does Lachlan imagine I’ll write a book like ‘The Bell Jar’?
Obsession, Possession, Shame & Writing Memoir
“I wrote those [short] stories because I was possessed by them and wanted to exorcise them from my system… Isn’t creative writing all about being possessed, seized, obsessed?