Author: Lauren Sawyer

Homo in Curvatus in Se

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And the eye that eyes itself is your eye And the ear that hears itself is too near… You’re getting too close to your source –Andrew Bird, “Eyeoneye” It starts with your nose: nose to knee. See your toes? Count… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.

Lost in Discovery Park, WA

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“The medium is the message.” —Marshall McLuhan   The whole world mimes McLuhan’s sound-bite The silence the hi-def wholeness white noise between trees About Lauren SawyerLauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.

Roots

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when he told me i looked ravishing i pinched his lips together: no the root is rape do not ravish me run me dry etymologically let’s copulate cleave. About Lauren SawyerLauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.

Communion

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Matthew’s peculiar story about how Jesus sorts out the sheep and goats assumes that it’s hard— they separate themselves…. –David Slavitt, “All We Like Sheep”   “This poem’s about me, you know,” my poet friend told me. I had already… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.

Sex Ed.

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Lesson 1: How to be a Virgin “Are you a virgin?” A group of nine-year-old boys gathered around Perri, the freckled fourth-grade whore, under the school terrace. It was recess and I found myself, the friend-of-a-friend of one of the… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.

The Catcher

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“What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.” –Holden… Continue Reading →

About Lauren Sawyer

Lauren is a graduate of The Seattle School who loves contemporary literature and poets who don’t rhyme. She often sympathizes with Dorothy Parker’s saying, “I hate writing; I love to have written.” Read more of Lauren’s written work at laurendeidra.com.