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Category Archives: Childhood

And our longings will meet

April 6, 2020

coming in the house with sand between your toes or mud covering your boots, you may pause by my old …

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2019, my Dad and coming back

March 28, 2020

2019 was a year that was filled with loss for me and my family – a dear aunt, my step …

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My father finds comfort in crows

May 3, 2017

Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …

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Your body is returned

November 17, 2016

i. I know because you are me. You came here afraid, chased by storms. You huddle with spare, odd friends …

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The meadow prefers no trespassers

October 22, 2016

or, To Donald Trump and all the other letches throughout my long life, starting at age 11 and continuing far …

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Taking the car to the beach

September 25, 2016

this is not quite the breeze that wound past us when we entered the woods off the dirt road and …

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9/3

September 4, 2016

to be lost for this ever, to drink the moon when no one is looking, to return washed clean

6/24

June 25, 2016

we lay here in our pod the world screams crazy past you ask, ‘What is the world?’

The gods, the gods, how they love to hide behind a veil

June 23, 2016

I am not afraid of miracles, though all of my angry doubts must make you think so. I long for …

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6/19

June 22, 2016

through this leafy tunnel, freed from the sun we stroll easy, trace silky air over our skin discover joy in …

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