Posts
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Awe
The stickers on the lamp posts that don’t go away. That is God. Embedded in my scalp under my hair where I can not see, there is God.
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River alternative ending
Through the knotweed. Down the ladder made of tree roots. Up onto the big rock. By the river. I stand, mud on my ankle and cuts on my knees. The sun sits just barely above the trees as the sweat sits just above my brow.
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unedited riffing take two
If you told me that destiny was real. That everything that would ever happen was predetermined. You know what I would do differently? Nothing. Why should I? Who cares that you were meant to read this? You have, and now it is over.
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unedited riffing take one
“Jack of all trades, master of none”
Cut me some slack
Please?
If two halves make a whole, why don’t 34 half-descents?
Can a lot of alright be good enough for you?
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River
Through the knotweed. Down the ladder made of tree roots. Up onto the big rock. By the river. I stand, mud on my ankle and cuts on my knees. The sun sits just barely above the trees as the sweat sits just above my brow.
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Blue Marble
The pressure on your chest weakens as the craft gradually decelerates to a halt, and you find all the mass has been pulled out of you, leaving only your volume.
Loves
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where the map will take you
You can walk as far as the map will go.
You can swim all oceans, seas, and lakes.
You can drive every winding road,
Bike each cracked and uneven sidewalk. -
Beside you, I am not afraid
She says, I’m scared,
and I don’t lie,
I am too.Scared in the quiet,
scared of how much
this matters.Except for one moment:
when I’m beside her. -
scheduled landing
We met like passengers
assigned to the same row
close enough to share armrests,
not a destination. -
A quiet border
We lie inches apart,
faces turned from one another,
like two commas in the same sentence
that never connect. -
unseen witness
The walls utter gossip at night.
They watch new women pass,
different steps, new perfumes,
claiming corners they'll never own. -
she's odd
I've seen a penguin in a trench coat
Questioning the tide.
I've seen a pigeon on the couch
Licking chip salt from its wings.