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Chasing Amazing Things
She wanted amazing things
so she ran towards the sunset
thinking she could grasp the shining light in her hands
and hold it forever
forever.
She found herself on a cliff
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Thermometers and Laughter and Showing Up
The days I wake up
and fall asleep
and move through the world
tired and clumsy,
it is hard to know the truths
of what I am grateful for.
Those days,
I am grateful not for winter,
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The Spider in the Shower
There’s a spider in the shower,
It showed up there today,
It’s in the corner
Where wallpaper meets wallpaper meets wallpaper
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Loves
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those poets and their sunrises
(ywp is like the sunrise)
washed in watercolor above the sleeping world
enchantingly illuminatory
& strawberry melting into orange creamsicle. if you pay
close attention, it never really ends
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To being carefree
today, i let my brother spray me with a hose
and it reminded me of that time at camp,
when we jumped in the pool, still in our clothes
it reminded me of water balloon fights,
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'I am' Poem
When my teachers want to celebrate diversity they try to get us to write 'I am' and 'Where I'm From' poems. This is not something I oppose, but something is lost in the prompting. For them I write the easy apple cider explanations. For you?
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If Only I Could Hug the Stars
If only I could hug
The stars;
Perhaps I could shatter them
And cup the shards
In my palms,
The cracks constellations
Aligning with my veins,
But that isn’t close enough
