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how my friends say I love you
i try to justify my exhaustion, slap a label on it complete with dosage instructions and warnings written in cramped letters. i hand it out to everyone i meet, mumbling apologetically but also desperate that they read it through. . i am amazed when some people rip off the label and toss it away, say,…
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Quote Collection: Best of 2021 So Far
I love quotes. I have a giant Google doc carefully organized into multiple categories with matching headers and a table of contents, and before that I had an assortment of Pages documents and a physical journal. Part of it is that I love words. I love the alchemy of spining a few solitary letters and…
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Once When I Was Young
Once when I was youngI read about the men on a mission to the moonhow it raised a nationa peoplea planetto the heavens and I cried because I couldn’t understandhow it was fifty years onand we hadn’t gone back Once when I was youngI read about the bomb in the sky above the city how…
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The Corona Diaries ~ April
So I know it’s June and it’s been a while since the first Corona Dairies but I don’t want to forget to post this. These are the ramblings I recorded on my phone in between grocery store shifts last spring. It’s strange rereading them now, as the world—my corner of it, at least—opens up like…
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We Are What They Grow Beyond: Review of A Quiet Place II
Hey friends, and happy (almost) summer! In the next few months I want to work on non-fiction pieces and maybe some short fiction too. I’ve been writing more poetry this spring, which has been lovely, but I want to use these school-free months to write some longer-form creative stuff. Hopefully some of that will show…
A Glimpse of Starlight
finding the light beyond the clouds
A Glimpse of Starlight 