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A Song of Ascents
I spent six weeks this semester in Israel on an incredible study abroad opportunity. Within that sentence dwell so many experiences and ideas and people that I am just beginning to process. I’m sure more about it will trickle out, especially this summer when I actually have time to sit down and think. I wrote…
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the pretension of pain
the pretension of pain as if you are the first across the millennia the only, the ultimate among the billions the pretension of painas if all the oceans don’t shame your tearsall the thunderstormsweaker than your woes the pretension of painas if it will destroy youas if it will lift you upto a sorrowing and craggy…
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Dark Ages
He says we are entering a new dark age. I wonder whose words will survive,Copied by tired hands by candlelight,Sheltered in stone towers while storms rage outside,One day to be dusted off and discovered;Delighted in: look at what embers still burnFrom the old dark age. I know not much was salvaged—How many scraps of poems…
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Reading Recap 2021
Welcome, friends, to my favorite blog post of the year! It’s a bit later than usual but no less exciting. I’ve linked to last year’s reading recap below, and in it you can find links to all the previous ones in that post (I was too lazy to link to them all again here, what…
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Growing Up
growing up just seems to be a long litany of loving people and losing them outside in the cold there are two stars visible. the rest of the light comes from our building’s front steps—“just when you get comfortable,” my friend says, shaking her head just when the roots curl safe and strong around each…
A Glimpse of Starlight
finding the light beyond the clouds
A Glimpse of Starlight 