“‘This land isn’t empty, it’s full of ghosts, you just can’t see them.' She says it flat, matter of fact, no judgement at all.”
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“‘This land isn’t empty, it’s full of ghosts, you just can’t see them.' She says it flat, matter of fact, no judgement at all.”
“easy to find the tension in the root. / The give. The take.”
“You fooled me. Your ability to / thrive without needing…”
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“I feared the unfamiliar that winged within my own female form.”
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“When I open the door, I face the drooping sun. The light in my face is bright, not warm.”
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“Can you forgive me?”
“under tables with green fire. / we are thinking / who's the child”
“He jumps, flashing the phones a shaka sign as he soars.”
“You are / distracted, so / the spirit / cannot summon / you at / midnight hunger”
“across the empty highway—how I slowed the car, prayed to survive that terrifying beauty.”
“I just want to tear away everything / that is irrelevant, and love you like a broken lever”
“…it seemed the farther they traveled from home, the closer they were to those stars.”
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