John Spiegel is an English teacher in Springfield, Ohio. He wears one pair of shoes and had a flip phone until last year because it just worked, dang it. His poetry and nonfiction can be read or is forthcoming in Birds Piled Loosely, Vine Leaves, Garbanzo, Indiana Voice Journal, and others.
January 1, 2015
CREATIVE NONFICTION BY JOHN C. SPIEGEL "COCOONS"
John Spiegel is an English teacher in Springfield, Ohio where he shares his love for words, beards, and the feel of vinyl records.
A previous essay, "Like Dad" appeared in the December 2014 Issue of IVJ.
Cocoons
I imagine the first couple of days inside a cocoon are quite uncomfortable for the adolescent caterpillar. A caterpillar eats, grows, and molts its skin up to five times before entering a chrysalis smaller than its body appeared, much like trying on a new pair of shoes that should be your size but haven’t been broken in quite yet, so you wiggle your toes up and down as you contemplate claustrophobia for a single appendage.
December 1, 2014
CREATIVE NONFICTION BY JOHN SPIEGEL "LIKE DAD"
John Spiegel is an English teacher in Springfield, Ohio where he shares
his love for words, beards, and the feel of vinyl records.
Like Dad
Growing
up, my father was a source of fear. I tip-toed around him whenever he slept. Whenever
we interrupted his sleep, he would jump and shout as he awoke. Too many nights
I spent in silence, revering my father’s occasionally angry voice.
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