Posts
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Don't Marry Me Haiku
sorrows and prayers.
are you a child or a bride?
thief, don't pray for me
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Simple ASL
Bend your middle and ring
forward
Hold them to your palmthe rest, they stay up
and now you brandish
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Muse of Mine
You love to paint.
You teeter on the line between
Hedonism and Asceticism
with every move of your fingers
each shape you make in the clay
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Get Out
Snap, clap, bite
Maybe you'll wake up
to a small mercy raining heavily
on your roof
or maybe you won't.
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Small Towns at Sunset
I go biking near dusk, when the sun skims the surface of the horizon and the owls begin to hoot and the bugs begin to bite.
Loves
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On Forgiving the Dust in My Piano
Dear daughter of Earth,
I am not naked, rose-lipped, chapped and chaste in a poetic caste and silhouetted erotically before sunset and starlight like the Thinker gazing across foreseeable perpetuity.
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Gaslighting in the Medical System: The Darkside of Mental Health Awareness
I am eight. I sit across from my mom in my pediatrician’s office on the paper-covered table. The paper is crinkled and uncomfortable. My mother’s head is cupped in her hands as the pediatrician leaves the room.
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Remembrance
Cracked pavement tells the story that time refuses to forget.
And while tree roots weave their way underneath the ashen pavement,
Time is dripping away from me.
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Assumptions
I hate the fact that so many people make assumptions.
About me.
The “fact” that because I have hearing aids means that I am deaf.
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Case files
It didn’t occur to me, not on the first day, or the second
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If you asked me to describe the job
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My Faith
I’ve never been religious much —
My Faith is in the trees.
The sort of Lord I worship flies among the Bumblebees.
And my idea of Heaven is buried ‘neath Her leaves —