Dear Impatient: A True Metaphor is a Swift & Violent Twisting of Language, A Renaming of the Already Named ~ Verylyn Klinkenborg

Lit Salon on the one writing exercise we should all be doing regularly in order to pressurize and clarify not only our writing practice and our prose, but the very way in which we live our lives

Remember last September, when I was frantically helping my youngest adult child, Billie, and their foster son, Z, move into their new house around the corner from ours?The one built into the hill and perched up above the street? And remember how we were scrambling to paint all the walls in the house—how we really had to, because the previous owners wer…