10/10/2017 If Only I Could Do This by Rachel NewcombeIf Only I Could Do This If only I could turn my words upside down and shake them real hard, so hard that protective language services might need to be contacted, if I could do this maybe all those unnecessary words would fall to the ground, overused words that have been stuck together would loosen, ridiculous adverbs would get dizzy and land with a crash, bloated adjectives, assaulted from so much jostling would deflate and shrivel upon hitting the ground, smug groupings of words parading around with an overconfident stride would quake from this rigorous shaking and would be forced to rearrange themselves in an unrecognizable order, lazy words would disintegrate midair --- if all this shaking was successful, maybe words that had been hiding in unconscious regions would finally have more room to breathe, to roam and bump into new words, and hopefully find their way onto the page. ![]() Bio: Rachel Newcombe is a psychoanalyst on Orcas Island and Seattle, WA. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, 7x7LA, and elsewhere. She co-leads a writing collective in Seattle for therapists exploring New Narrative. Comments are closed.
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