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find myself

standing out in front of the house on the sidewalk at 3 am in my socks and pjs staring up at the sky.so quiet.as quiet as it gets here. and the air is almost clean. and theres no people. yet.eventually...

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occupying the occupied and proof theres life beyong traffic and dryer vents.

right now i'm stuck in my room waiting for the neighborhoods fucking laundry to be done but i managed to climb the mountain this morning...well my little car did...my struggling for oxygen brain has...

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random fabulous

me, in my room, where the air is a little more like air...finished scarves...they are for sale! There are 4 of them. 2 are a bright lemon/lime with dark teal or light blue hand stitching at the ends. 2...

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decolonizing 100%

so, i'm realizing one of the (many) evils of facebook is that all this information gets passed around  between myself and folks i'm connected to on that site but never here...so...at the risk of being...

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navigating pain

On a good day I get to danceJust for a minute,2 minutes is blissnot like I used to but oh the rhythm and the sway slightbut a ride down a river so sweetair has me in her armsrhythm meets me half way...

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Article 19

*picture is a stark open rural new mexico landscape, in the center of the picture is an old wooden roadside sign up high on wooden supports thats says "pigs", along side it runs an barbed wire fence...

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hard times and a bridge

suspendingwhen i roll oversun rising and reach his chest with my waking hands run themdown his body my head resting thereexhaling dreamsinhalingsalt sharp butter sweetthe smooth warmthof his skin how i...

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haunt.

During a recent unwell stint, stuck in bed, i watched way too much of a show called Being Human (uk!). i’ve been thinking about the character annie, who was a ghost. she was bound, more or less, to the...

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pandora picks aaliyah

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air.

after months and months of searching, thinking i'd found something then searching some more...I finally found myself a little get away. just for a little while. I stayed for the first time last week...

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more air.

Trying to appreciate the land here. And it is truly beautiful to look at. Not so amazing to walk through. In fact, I find taking walks here brings up anxiety for me. Its as though the land screams “ I...

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let go.

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fall things.

 (photo is a close shot of a garden bed, mulched with straw and a few tiny tiny one day old kale sprouts peeking through.) (photo is of the view out my shed door, from my desk. Outside it is late day...

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self preservation toolbox inventory #1

recognizing the feeling, the hollow heartbeat discomfort in my body that tells me I'm dealing with an untenable privilege dynamic in a relationship cuz it feels like everything i say is...

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an end to able bodied rhetoric.

I wanted to chime in on the chorus of brilliant replies and comments from folks on B. leowes circulating article "an end to self care". I'll link some of my faves below. they cover many things i wish i...

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poem for the dead

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My new chapbook take 2...!

 after some technical -how to pay for it- issues that i believe i've fixed, i'm posting this again!My newest, most lovely, humble and razor sharp chapbook is available for 5 bucks! There are 38 pages...

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tool shed poetry

a hard rakedrags thru the debristurning up broken glasshistoryrusty nailsbottle caps packedwith griefleavesstones too heavyto movechurns up reason leavessalt and sandbeetle shellsand hope tillsover to...

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Body Check

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gintaras

the day the moon swallowed the sunand the clocks went backthe lightwas amber when I wokethere was mist and rainbowI wonder if I’ve paid enough attention to the deadare their stories in mehad I listened...

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