orion-schwalm
Echo
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Poems + Reposts
Washing Dishes
I think about you every time I’m washing dishes. / I don’t know what about washing dishes, in almost any sink, but especially when the sun shines through the window, brings me so readily back to your high rise a decade past… / When we were just friends, not even lovers, not even enemies yet.
21
Aug 22, 2025
Spirit Box Pueblo
“The lady at the unemployment office made me cry” / You said to me from a million miles away. / It cracked my spirit box open further so the light now shines around my tiny no-longer-dark room.
31
Aug 22, 2025
Hot and Cold
I don’t know how to say it. / You know I only have one word for this. / Ineffable.
43
Dec 28, 2024
burning
It was a hot day when we departed, / A fuming day in the land of Ashes, / Hazy from the smoke of a fire three towns over.
30
Jul 9, 2024
inside myself
There is a terrible storm raging outside / and I am here, and I am alive. / My skin is dry and cracked and bleeds from the smallest friction
16
Apr 4, 2024
The Orchard
I felt trapped in an endless single moment of time. / Nothing was real except the deafening silence of the dynamic between my mother and father and the lie of a white picket fence we had been gritting and grinning our teeth to trick the world into building for us. / Every thing slipped slowly backward, as in a dream of falling down hill, not quite real enough to feel the fall, but not grounded enough to move away.
39
Jan 2, 2024
Birdcage
This is an ever-refreshing circle of / long for-love-attach-suffer for / and when I eat food
21
Sep 18, 2023
rainsounds
There's a hole in my stomach(heart) / Dear Eliza / Dear Eliza
64
Apr 28, 2023
Foreverlights
Fish / in a pond / in a room in the sky
82
Apr 24, 2023
hello?
When you wake up / do you feel good? / do you feel rested?
36
Apr 24, 2023
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