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Sep 2018
light pools in-between buildings
and she eyes the arches of morning through the blinds
sharp white through concrete divides

summer has lasted quite a while
or has it passed too fast?

anemone, daffodil, mid-august ebonies
terse and kind replies from well-trained staff

flags creep down, half-mast
crawling, as if there is shame somewhere

I can only hope
for hope
to ease some of the fear

prophetic, dread
candlelight or medicine
oxygen and antigens

but I've come in like a gust
something soft and raging

for now, it is enough
doors close
on mid-spring
and its balmy pinks
but there's another door ajar
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I read something I really didn't expect to tonight? Claire Wineland died.
I loved her. I love her. I love her family for doing absolutely everything they could for her her whole life. I hope even bigger things are still in store for her, wherever she is. And I hope even bigger things are in store for the things she had in place in this world.
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finished, unfinished
as it is
it's business
touka
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touka  23/F/Wilmington, NC
(23/F/Wilmington, NC)   
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