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2020-04-29 Mathematics and Other Tragedies
I could draw myself into a spiral. I could pretend to be a straight line or paint my life as an isosceles triangle in perpetual motion. The faster it spins, the more the points blur into circles that create borders that can’t be penetrated. If I was reborn as a star, would I have five…
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2020-04-28 Hidden Tracks, Nostalgia, and Serious Feels
I’m listening to a new playlist I created last week. It’s pretty much the bomb and full of songs I’ve forgotten I loved so much and some new ones I didn’t even know I owned. Each new selection leads down another road of thought, which is pretty incredible, but it makes me feel sort of…
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2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry
To be fair, I’m really referring to just the one poem I’ve reworked a hundred different ways and each time I try to sneak it into my manuscript, my mentor says “nope”. To be fair, he’s only seen two versions of it and not the fifteen I wrote before or the 30 I thought about…
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2020-03-31 Crisis, Evolution, Kaczynski, and Poetry.. Oh My!
If you’re into drama and the sob-story of a broken cookie, I’m all about that today. If you’re here for the poetry, skip to the end… Yesterday I was hoping to send my thesis preface and manuscript revisions off early in the day. You know, release myself from the hold it had on me. But…
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2020-01-01 MFA Res Day 4 – Sisters of the Star Blossoms
This is the day I’ve been waiting for All My Life All My Life, Life My All, I give you my all, all my alll And everything I have acquired. All That has been imprinted upon me by this Cruel and magnificent life. My Brilliant insignificance and you, your Unanswerable questions and unknowable elusive answers…
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2019-11-25 Writers Workshop Whammy
Where are we at today? Ah yes, in writers workshop where my poetry is being critiqued by an eclectic group of undergrad students. Most of whom, might I add, have had more exposure and experience than I in studies about literature, poetry, and writing in general. I got my undergrad in computer science, so what…
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2019-11-22 A Love Letter for Today
A Love Letter for Today My words are a love letter. To love is a verb which doesn’t always mean the same thing as it did the day before. The bible says that it is patient and kind but i find more often than not, it can also be lonely and wanting and hopeful…
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2019-09-26 The In-Between Place 🌍 ☀️ 💚
It’s no secret I don’t care for air travel, but something about a solitary journey through the sky changes my mind. Not about the flying, but a shift of thought, deeper, more clear. Brighter perhaps. Lifting off the ground I’m physically detached from the me that exists on the ground. The mother, daughter, lover, friend,…
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