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everything is temporary
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neither this nor that
For every high, there is an impending low. For every moment spent elated, there is one spent in consternation and confoundment. For every elevation…
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all our truths
haiku-collages
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this is what gratitude is
There are no seasons in Florida. No shifts to auburn, amber, or umber. No pale Winters. No visible demarcations to divide the times of the year. Nothing…
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wake up to the world
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look at this
*Special thanks to Mia Quagliarello’s interview with Stella Kalaw for inspiring this. See also: Blessed are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives by…
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March 2024

I am this breathing
Ephrat Livni says that “Time…is an emotional and psychological experience.” An act of narrative cataloging between the already and the not-yet. A stream…
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holding a shadow
a return to cut-out poetry
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like you mean it
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the soul
"Is the soul solid, like iron", Mary Oliver asks? "Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?" Is it guarded or…
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talking to myself
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