Emily Butler is the author of the nonfiction book Lucid Dreaming, Waking Life: Unlocking the Power of Your Sleep, as well as two poetry chapbooks: Ghost House (Alien Buddha Press) and Self Talk (Plan B Press). You can follow them on Instagram @TheEmilyButler.
Emily Butler
Emily Butler: Object permanence
These new phones are slim, breakable. Smooth as still water. I crave plastic on plastic, wrapping stiff cord around my finger like a curl of hair, flirtatiously, though I felt invisible back then on my parents’ porch steps, as far as the cord would take me. These days I could use something to clutch, something […]
Emily Butler: Christening
On the day of my brother’s christening there was a fire at the horse barn down the street. In the box of photographs, among images of my parents smiling in wide-rimmed glasses, holding the mass of my brother shrouded in white, there is a photograph of a horse, running against a backdrop of flames. […]