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imagine a bubble

 the things you learn in therapy.

the sun

just for a moment.

things i've learned through therapeutic distraction

44% of all waterfowl are monogamous.  44% of all waterfowl are geese and swans.  despite making careful decisions, and waiting until they’re two to mate, their marriages sometimes end   in divorce. they mourn loss — they lose a year to it.   moose can run up to   56 kilometres per hour.  they’re   six feet tall. moose are seasonally monogamous.  they have to find a new mate each year. i wonder if they ever pick each other again. you can survive 1-3 days floating on your back at sea — that is if you don’t freeze to death or get torn to shreds by a shark.   if you don’t have water, don’t eat  (unless you’re eating fish eyeballs).  catching a   seabird is easy — you eat this raw. but if you   don’t find water, you will die.   grief is not linear.   sometimes pain lasts a while.   this headache is probably dehydration, not cancer.   your face can feel tingly if you’re anxious.   make a self-care plan f...

yellow

"what does the future look like?" she asked.

creating from grief

How do you find ways of coping with grief?

quicksand

do you remember when we were all scared of quicksand?

moving on

 a poem with more meaning than meets the eye.

game wrong

a poem

say it again

a poem (and one of my favourites now)

they say

 "love is hard," they say.

less

 I find myself writing less these days.

"you were right"

 a short about nothing in particular

into existence

 Sometimes all you need is to hear something said out loud.

never have i ever

 a short dialogue.

learning

a short piece on learning. 

you don’t // i won’t

there are still words to write — and so i do

loss // lack

 a poem about writing about love — or the lack of it

the smell of sunshine

 I've always been the type of person to bury my face in things.

to be loved

a poem.

touch

 a poem about touch

musings of a melancholic

 I took a bit of a hiatus, and this is why.

healing

 Healing isn't linear, they say. 

a question

 a short piece.

magic wand (an excerpt)

An excerpt from a longer work about magic wands.

untainted (an excerpt)

An excerpt from a longer piece of work on tainted memories.