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Rising
We were rising.
With every thread tied together, by those who wanted to catch hold —
Those with knotted breath and clasped handsWeaving together a dream, cast out into a sea of stars —
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Don't Be Afraid
Child, your future is best left unspoiled, so I may be too vague, or not vague enough. Don’t be afraid of the contents within this letter . . .
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Tides Vs. Trembles
A giant stares down to sea –
Earth
in its entirety.
Until the rising waves
make crests like mountains,
move like mountains,
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Lonely After Death
I await you in the open grass.
The rolling plains roam my mind.
Dark-swept winds claw the horizon,
Damp with the promises you left unanswered.
Loves
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A Soul For A Sorrow
I don’t see myself in pictures hanging crooked on the wall,
The shade of red that coats my cheeks can shift to none at all.
For I might offer just a hunch to those in this dismay?
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Men We Reaped
Inspired by Jesmyn Ward
I wish I could tell you how I mourn your innocence,
how I pray for a shield,
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8:46
there are all the things I could do with three minutes alone in my room
I have an essay to write and Hebrew to study
I have things to look up and notifications to check
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rufus, rutilus, cardinalis, rubidus
If I could find a color that I felt adequately described the bright bulbs outside my window, clinging to the branches of a tree I have never seen bloom, I would not use it
Some words have no place being written —
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After the fifth day of November
note: partially inspired by Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"
and for my mom
i want you to sit and stare at the glistening horizon.
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