Issue 32: Mouthgate by Sarah Cavanaugh | Call for Artists
"I have 19 little blue people living in my throat..."
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Mouthgate by Featured Writer Sarah Cavanaugh
I have 19 little blue people living in my throat.
I feel them grabbing fistfuls of flesh on their attempts to ascend through my throat up to my mouth.
They’re small enough and light enough, their hands and feet don’t hurt me much, but there are enough of them to make their presence, their power, their intentions known. They want out. They need out. They came here only to escape.
Like magic, they can protrude a head or a hand or a foot through the skin on my neck, wink or wave hi, without puncturing my skin or making me bleed. I can see them do so in the mirror. I can see them do so in pictures and videos.
No one else can see them. No one else looks hard enough. No one else wants to.
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Sarah Cavanaugh has a BA in Psychology from Stonehill College, and minored in creative writing. She lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts and works at a therapeutic community on a working farm, where she sometimes co-facilitates a weekly creative writing group. Her writing seeks to make, unmake, and remake meaning of her experience and different states of being. Lately, she has enjoyed exploring the use of plant materials to create handmade paper and ink as a means of deepening the relationship between the content of her writing and its tactile aesthetics. She is currently working on a longer piece of narrative prose.
More Issue 32 Highlights
Issue 32: Meet the new curated team | Featured Artist Charles Ritchie
Issue 32: Part 1: Meet Nadine | by Swati Sudarsan photograph by Michel O’Hara
Issue 32: Air | poem by Jesse Sorrell | sculpture by Sorcha McNamara
Issue 32: Four Portraits + Violet, A Story in Words and Pictures by Deborah Stein
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Leigh Hopkins
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