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air
hands heart lungs fluttering
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like untried wings
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still wet, a little heavy
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quivering like first
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Mar 5, 2025
Pompeii
We built our house at the base of the mountain.
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When the tremors began, we ignored them.
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When fi
1m
Oct 7, 2023
Scars of Ink
Tattoos are scars
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we choose to keep--
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words we want to carry,
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memories we fear losing;
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ink a
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Sep 11, 2021
Grief (?)
Why is saying goodbye
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so *easy*
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when every word
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every syllable
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every sound
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of "hello"
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wa
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Mar 12, 2021
Color
If someone asked me
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how I would describe
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color,
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I would tell them this:
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Yellow
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is stepping
1m
Mar 29, 2020
Fast Train (Things My Heart Tells Me V)
I want to take
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the fast train with you
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and go far away from here.
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~
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Wǒ xiǎng gēn nǐ
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zuò ku
1m
Jan 17, 2020
Touch-Starved
I feel the feather-light touches
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Of imaginary fingers
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As they creep across my shoulders.
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Longi
1m
Jan 5, 2020
Storm
I clung to you like a lifeline-
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A floating buoy in a violent sea
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But when I let go of you
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Into
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Dec 8, 2019
Clouds
Briefly,
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We were magical;
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Like shooting stars
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Caught between clouds.
1m
Dec 7, 2019
Pompeii
We built our house
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at the base of Vesuvius;
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in the shadow of that mountain
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we made our home. /
1m
Nov 17, 2019
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