Recounting his three year journey with chronic pelvic pain which at its worst left him virtually unable to walk, Stories We Must Tell explores Matthew’s struggle with limitation and loss when he was forced to resign his job managing a busy food bank in Seattle and move back in with his parents outside Bellingham, WA to focus on his recovery. A soul searching and gut wrenching collection of poems, SWMT is full of hard fought insights acquired on a long, bruising path towards healing.
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Back Home, Week Five
Three times now
I have seen the Trickster
The latest in broad daylight
ears propped
padding down my lane
Now I am sure it must be a sign
What he wants
I don’t know
or maybe I do
Five months
unable to walk right
and now this wheelchair
beside my bed
Childhood room where I lay
refugee camp of all my things
Dad snoring in the room above
Mom tossing
Sleep doesn’t seem to help
a thousand prayers neither
Dreams still come
but these days
I play catch and release
Doctors think I’m nuts
parents, too
And what good am I to friends
except a burden to their minds?
Everything gets stripped
and beneath a single question
Who am I?
Without my scribbling hands
without my chasing legs
Just a mind
rising in the night
full of words