I knew I should’ve been happy for him. After all, he was my only son and I’ve made it clear from the time he was…
Prose & Cons
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Sunlight filtering onto the salt-stained pavement peeking through snow and ice. The sound of birds, many, singsonging their tales of travel to their partners and…
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Heart palpitations An overcast threatens me here Breathe; smile pain away
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Rising and rhyming, Rising and rhyming– Rhyming without reason! Melting pot of highs and lows, Black and blue, white and gold, So rich, so elaborate;…
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Loosely based on “Cartwheel” by Lucy Dacus My hands were still sticky from holding a lemonade-smothered quarter when she told me. It was the summer…
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It hasn’t been a full day since we drove out to the shore and already home has become shorthand for Room 312 A. Back at…
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The rain tonight sends Everyone to their houses. Our fingertips and Faces turned up, we Walk, side-by-side, to my car Beneath the damp trees.
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How to deal with feelings you don’t want to welcome into being true How to deal with the paper you haven’t written yet How to…
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I first imagine driving with you Then, my hands on the steering wheel Yours at your lap, restless fingers Summer’s breath on our necks We’ll…
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I’m coming anew in my pinkness And caressing my supple heartstrings With saccharine treats Standing tall in the pink pleather shoes That I thrifted last…