Monthly Archives: September 2020

the thing that’s beautiful right now.

The thing that’s beautiful right now is that I can feel my heartbeat through the vein in my temple that’s giving me this headache. Maybe too much light or too much concentration on the sad and beautiful blue and black … Continue reading

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salt

If the salt of the ocean is the salt of my tears, do I cry a whole ocean? Do I replenish it or does it replenish me? Are we one in the same? It is known that the concentration of … Continue reading

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my alphabet

Z, yes, I’ll start with z because I’m left handed and this left to right, top to bottom world leaves smudges on my hands, papers, clothing. Z is for zebrafish. Those little prisoners wearing their stripes in my childhood aquarium. … Continue reading

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what matters now

The low pressure system off the west coast The denseness of the Arctic’s peatland, trapping generations of exhale The prayer for a marriage between two hydrogen and one oxygen The direction of the wind, not four but 360 The birds … Continue reading

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you were only waiting

It was my dad’s birthday yesterday. He would have been 72. In between my steady stream of work, I kept a Van Morrison soundtrack on softly in the background. I was Dad’s brown-eyed girl. One of the last times Dad … Continue reading

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words.

When I was little, I was obsessed with those word games in the Highlights magazine. Match the words up to their definitions, find the hidden words in the puzzle or the picture. I remember being glued to the TV, PBS … Continue reading

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dust

I don’t know what happens when we die, if anything happens. And here’s the thing, I won’t know until it happens, or doesn’t happen. But I now understand what becomes of the physical remains of a body, what the iterations … Continue reading

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camembert divination

I’ve become obsessed with my family tree. I guess that’s what happens when one branch of it, the sturdy branch below me, breaks off, drops down while disappearing into thin air, leaving only traces of DNA in my brothers and … Continue reading

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