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Grit
A roll of white athletic tape lies on a counter next to a tub of Vaseline. Red leather gloves hang f
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Jan 17
Lighter Than Air
The stacked and layered lives of the tenements, all that intimacy bred a common knowledge. The neigh
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Jan 11
All the Empty White
I take your hand, the brush askew, and I hold it in my own.
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Together we find the palette, and we m
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Jan 8
And Then You Were Gone
I waited, seated behind the arched letters of the cafe window,
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riveted by others who moved urgentl
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Sep 12, 2025
Indentations
before he left his father's house for the last time,
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he went to the kitchen where gray winter ligh
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Jul 7, 2025
Dry Ground
Ten years, my tears, and his last breaths.
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Wrapped in a white sheet, I carry him outside.
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Later,
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Jun 17, 2025
A Thought
so exciting, so fascinating, so
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wholly fulfilling, so viscerally
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gratifying to
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think, to think
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Feb 25, 2024
Winter Coat
in the park, the homeless stamp their feet in the cold
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as the snow drifts down through the city /
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Jan 24, 2024
Day Rise
like the scent of crisp linens
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from morning's first conscious breath,
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she is life awakened
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Dec 30, 2023
'Twas the Eve
thoughts of tinsel and garland and stolen kisses under
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mistletoe, of snow-covered walks, the prism
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Dec 20, 2023
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