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TAR
Inexorable Trauma
Danielle Hark
trauma
Trauma
a game
game of power
consumption
stealing souls
person eating person
blood on mouths
hands
dripping down thighs
Trauma
cannot be undone
no gauze nor cast
can cover
pain
man taking life
as possession
trauma
Trauma
can be documented
memorialized
or hidden
never
silenced
Inspired by
Portrait of Takes Enemy, Sioux Warrior, Holding Spear or Staff, c. 1898,
by Gertrude Käsebier
ABOUT THE WRITER:
Danielle Hark is a writer and artist who lives with PTSD and bipolar disorder. She is the founder of the non-profit Broken Light Collective that empowers people with mental health challenges using photography. Danielle has an affinity for tattoos, foxes, and Greek Mythology. She lives and creates in New Jersey with her husband, two sassy young daughters, a Samoyed pup, a Scottish Fold cat, and a studio full of creepy dolls
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