Call Me When You Want to Talk about the TombstonesProse poetry, collage, genealogy, family history.Persea Books, 2018
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Cynthia Marie Hoffman is author of Exploding Head (Feb 2024), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer. Poems have appeared in Lake Effect, Smartish Pace, The Los Angeles Review, diode, and elsewhere.
Madison, WI, United States
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Selected work (4 publications)
Quality of Life"Right at this moment, an airplane is crashing through the roof."
poetry
anxiety
prose poetry
OCD
Exploding Head SyndromeIn your dreams, you are always running from the shadow that chases you through the forest. At night, an owl screams a womanly, murderous scream.
poetry
anxiety
prose poetry
memory
OCD
TouchedLately, you get a feeling you might die. The world squeezes in on itself. A cloud is a hundred elephants, and the northern pike surface from the marsh like blimps.
poetry
death
anxiety
prose poetry
OCD
This is How to Be HappyThe dark language of foliage creeps at the garden gate. You would never hurt yourself. You only worry you would hurt yourself.
poetry
anxiety
prose poetry
OCD
happy