Friends who know simple medicine, those ( Read more... )

A small glimpse; I’ve been happy these days in a calm and measured way that I don’t think I’ve quite had before. Been working part-time in a pet-foods warehouse, staking bags and boxes of dog and cat food on pallets. Mentally, it is kind of like tetris which I find relaxing, and physically…it was a little hard at first but I am getting in better ( Read more... )

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she photoshops out
a gap in her
chipped tooth

a gap that she
can whistle
through

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Last autumn, fog loomed for a week in my city, all
harsh edges softened, pale lights worked their way
through milky air. People and objects only existed
as I neared them, ceased to exist as their distance grew.
Could barely make out the huge red banner on the
side of the mall, facing the parking lot, that said Bait Cars are
Everywhere. ( Read more... )

Murmuring the little eggs of a sentence ( Read more... )

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he said which hand
and she touched the one that
did not have the ring

then kissed his open palm

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there she was in her ( Read more... )

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else, even
if noise, was
worth the
hurt
even if
flesh had nothing
to keep or
words could not
call out this
life that i
could not live
all this time
without
not living
sometimes.

outside i
found birds
frozen
in mid-flight
outside
where
everybody
needs to sleep
sometimes.

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