Posts
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Independence on Rollerblades
these shoes feel like wings.
i am
f l y i n g
across the newly grooved pavement, balancing
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for e.e. cummings
there are things i want to say to you. i feel like a fangirl; like rounded block letters on lined paper and i's dotted with hearts. i
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remember not understanding what red white and blue meant
america is a kindergartner with her hair in pigtails. her
eyes are bright blue & curious. she wants to know the answers
to everything and she can't understand why
no one will tell her.
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crawdad song
you get a line & i'll get a pole
honey - honey! july thickens, slows to a stop outside, get
your rod and line, the ones that used to be your father's. get
your heart from the closet and your coat from the floor,
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it's the end of the world
and the beginning --
don't blow it.
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on knowing people whose first language is not this one
speaking to people with honey-thick & beautiful accents brings a whole new meaning to hanging on your every word
Loves
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Being in college
I’m not really sure
What being in college even means.
Because every morning I wake up and brush my teeth,
Head to the dining hall,
My roomate and friends by my side.
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A-Z of my Disability
A perfectly normal day, spent staring at the
Beautiful sky, so you probably
Can't imagine why I was so
Distraught. Well I'll tell you.
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learned defeat
sewing soft stitches in unnerved unsteady lines
still new at old practices, still young as the thread winds
around a needle’s head, through the almost-fabric like
skin. -
comforting
Familiar is this earthly language, these archives full to the brim.
It must be how the world got magic, these rhymes of life and limb. -
Permanent
I hold onto anything that leaves a mark.
rings that coat my fingers in green
doodles in blue ink on my arm
I hope for my injuries to form scars
just to prove their existence.
scratching bug bites until they scab
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ywp is a movement of poets
a community of fools
given the power to combine words
and a pen
that can write so much meaning
in just two, or three, or millions of words,
and sometimes, there aren't enough