
Writing

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Orpheus
My whole life I have been trying to tell a story so beautiful that the world would fall in love with me.
That is why befriended words and stage lights.
That is why I watch the details of the world
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A few Julys ago
Remember the girl?
She’s in second grade,
Maybe
Blond brown curls
Blue green eyes.
She’s sitting on the top metal pole of the fence
Chipped green paint
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Wait
It's summertime in Montana, and because we ranch, because animals and plants and the weather are on their own time, I sit around and wait a lot.
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Human stupidity and cuttlefish
As it turns out
humans always
always
learn the hard way,
can never take the safe route.
We're that stupid, yes
but without human stupidity we wouldn't know about the pineapple
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Doors
The gears click
spin
twirl into place
the momentum of thousands of dreams
swinging
gliding
leaping
across the vast emptiness we call home.
The dreams
along with hopes
fears
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Childhood obsession
A childhood obsession, sure.
That's how it started.
But it's all I am -
It's who I am -
It's the deepest
Truest
Version of myself I could possibly be.
The notebook.
Stats and tracking