moved.

College calls for a new beginning. I've shared some of my innermost memories and thoughts on this journal, dating from when I was a self-deprecating prepubescent waxing horrible, fragmented poetry (thankfully long since deleted) to when I was in a state of perpetual existential crisis to when I began to actually... well. Live.But it's time ( Read more... )

Once, there was a young man who got into a horrific car accident. From then on he could still recognize faces, but wouldn't acknowledge them to be the loved ones that he knew. It wasn't amnesia. He would go to his mother's house and he'd say, "You look like my mother, you sound like my mother, you even smell like my mother. But I know you're not my ( Read more... )

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It's these days that speak in the language of cool linens, sliding and folding tired limbs to fit within the confines of thinly chalked boundaries that stretch to contain the multitude of our dimensions. There is art in all angles, in the turning of pages as he says, This moment, right now; it's perfect. The light changes as we color our skins with ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks I've been busying myself with routine, counting down the minutes and crossing out the days. I've passed the time by falling into a million kinds of proximity loves, by which I amass collages of peculiarly beautiful moments, sudden propensities for adventure, the witty exchanges that characterize the beginnings of friendships ( Read more... )

Their love was scripted from the beginning, already edited and prepackaged into a limited number of calendar boxes before it even began ( Read more... )

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Summer has started off lazy and beautiful like Aphrodite rising from her bed of sea foam, smelling like a night's worth of passion in the flowerbeds, morning dew still clinging to her skin. It feels absolutely surreal to wake up in the mornings with sunlight streaming on the walls. To me, graduating high school has been akin to an out-of-body ( Read more... )