Different Genres Allow Me To Not Feel

I've Left The Church - For Many Reasons That I've Written About Publicly - But It's Still A Large Part Of My Identity, And I Still Have My Faith, If Not My Church.

What Does It Mean To Be Catholic And Not A Catholic? I Feel Adrift, Homeless. My Catholic Imagination Allows Me To See The Soul As A Lit Breath, Seeking The Divine. It Persists.

I Wrote Before I Could Write. I Got My Hands On A Journal, Maybe A Hand-me-down; I Had Three Older Siblings. My First Entries Are In The Handwriting Of The Sister Closets In Age (5 Years My Senior). She Must Have Gotten Tired Of My Dictations Because She Gave Up And Then My Blocky Scrawl Shows Up. I Wrote Plays As A Kid Mostly.

I Feel Too Much. It's Like Being Drummed To Death From Within. You Know?

I Write Across Genres So I See Them, More Often, As Complementary Instead Of Separated By Boundaries.