Poetry Xtras » "My Head On Fire, Dull But Glowing" by Amy King

"My Head on Fire, Dull But Glowing" draws on one woman's life to create a new kind of confessional that reaches beyond her emotional condition. This single woman living in New York City notices graffiti taller than herself, lives in cafes and one room apartments, and examines her potential in a world of magazine images and civic duty. She pieces together these tangible details with her thinking life to illustrate one of the ways people make sense or create narratives from the random events, internal and external, that become the realities we tell.