Self-portrait of the writer as a dictionary
Irene Vazquez artist, n. pl - a community of believers who know that there is room for improvement in this world blue, adj. - dreamers’ sleep canker sore, n. - the way the past keeps cropping back up, the way it always hurts domino effect, phr. - the volley of insults that fly until the whole forest’s burned down epidermis, n. - a last defense against the knife family, n. - the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. people always forget that last part. give, v. - counterattack to the breaking glass heterozygous, adj. - your father’s eyes; your mother’s way with words irony, n. - a technique often used in Greek tragedy in which the audience knows the significance of events in a character’s mess of a life jasmine, n. - a smell that haunts the dreams, lingers on the fingertips, causes vivid recollection karma, n. - hope live, v. - a choice, day in, day out meaning, n. - the stories we tell ourselves. the forces that drive us need, n. - for reassurance, constancy, constancy, constancy omnipresent, adj. - the fear of forgetting. but forgetting what? ponder, v. - horrible immensities quiver, v. - removal from the earth race, v. - to the finish, to the end, to whatever comes next shake, v. - the edge of believability test, v. - boundaries, faith, limits, again again again understand, v. - heart, gut. vivid, adj. - b-roll rejection words, n. - method of expression, often futile x-ray, n. - sticks and stones may break my bones but words leave deep psychological wounds that may never heal yellow, adj. - daffodils, dreams that blind zodiac, n. - arbitrary possibility; possibility nevertheless |
About the author:
Irene Vazquez is a student residing in Houston, Texas. The summer of 2014, Irene studied creative writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Irene received a regional Silver Key for her poetry in the Scholastic Writing Awards, and she received an honorable mention in the 2014 Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, sponsored by Hollins University. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Rollick, Rising Phoenix Review, and Words Dance Mag, among others. |
