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Writing Helped Me Love Again After Losing Everything
When we talk about grief, people often imagine it arrives like a thunderclap in the very moment a loved one dies, followed by an immediate aftermath and the early tears. But for many of us who’ve lived it, grief isn’t loud. Sometimes it simmers quietly for years, showing up as Read more
Mature Vision
He looks my way as we sit in the chain salon awaiting our haircuts, and I wonder if “my way” is at me, since he repeats the twists of neck—but my eyes cannot certify since I keep them down on my phone and remember a friend of adolescence who would Read more
Co-Claimant
Emily resisted going to bed. She wasn’t ready for the onslaught of thoughts waiting behind closed eyes. She typed his name into the search bar. This time, the top result wasn’t his LinkedIn profile. It was an obituary. Colon cancer. Four months ago. Four months. He’d been dead for four Read more
Self Sabotage
We fight ourselves off every day The temptations for self hatred Gather ‘round for sentencing at the Crown Court We go into battle eyes to God, hand to Chest Young boys drum For the new citizenry Stopped in tracks by musket balls Worse bayonets Worse hand to hand combat with Read more
Fire Elegy
after Priscilla C. At the end of August, swallows make their dip and turn in the descending wind, cross the lake’s turbid water, where a killer, both drunk and aroused (the one she met on a dating app), dumped her on the side of the road, poured kerosene Read more
MOM MINUTE
Sleep calls to me, and so does my son. In a minute. The cup of water and belly — full. Teeth — flossed and brushed. Potty — twice for good measure. Sharky and Moose — each one stuffed under the arm. Star Wars fleece — just over the knees. Stories Read more