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new year’s resolution

 resolution: a poem

ghost limb

 

merry christmas

 

road trips

 The windows rolled down, homemade CDs playing old tunes, cramped backseats, a trunk full of luggage and snacks, and of course, lots of bickering. 

hiatus

 I am taking a bit of a break.

art from pain

 a poem

alternate universes

There's something appealing about the idea of alternate universes. 

falling behind

Sometimes there exists this sense of falling behind.

happy anniversary

And no, this is not a relationship anniversary. 

these arms

a poem.

yellow is sus

I've never been great at taking ownership of things.

the days of summer

a poem about days gone past. i wrote two versions of this, this was the first.

the concert

2020 was going to be the year of concerts.

hovering

a poem about hovering clouds

the hill

 Just some musings about my current emotional state.

face-to-face

Zoom fatigue really do be setting in, y'all.

published (but not really)

I may never be a published writer — and that's okay. I mean, technically I do have works that have been published... just not works that I can attach my name to (with the exception of a short story I wrote when I was 10 that was published by my school district with a bunch of other students' writing).  I've written before that I am not a poet and so the mere idea of compiling them into one big document to be sent off to a publisher to look at and judge and say, "You seriously think we're going to publish this?" is not something I want to deal with.  Scaredy-cat? Maybe. Probably. Definitely. But also, my poems are not meant for the whole world. Not yet, anyway. Maybe not ever!  So instead, I took matters into my own hands. I wanted to have a hardcopy of all my poems. Well, all the ones I've written in the past few months.  Self-publishing seemed like too much work (all that formatting seemed tedious) and my poems were all written on Canva (because I wanted ...

don't tell.

show, don't tell: a poem

show, don't tell

Do you remember being in English class and hearing the teacher say, "Show, don't tell!" when referring to your writing?