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  • Anticipatory Heart Attack: a meager attempt to celebrate heart awareness

    There’s nothing I fear more than a heartbeat. The negative space of it: its absence. Our hearts kill us more often than not. It’s statistically so. It’s figuratively so. And so I try to…

  • Black Party Invite

    I do not let tears well That will come later After the worst Whatever it is Always goes one way or the other There will be a ring Strangers will answer I said it’s…

  • Blizzard

    It was the hiss that gave me pause As it came controlled and sure from the window Taking its time The “sss” extending longer than a breath should It wasn’t a breath Not a…

  • shoulder

    I’m on my own Receptionless Fire in the place Fire in the hole The red lights come on in my car as if inflammed by some vague disease that’s silently bubbling up from bone…

  • Travel Plans

    The situation as it is is this: I find myself contemplating whether I should take Poppy with me when I travel. More specifically, her ashes. She hated car rides so I think she’d be…

  • Waiting

    She came into my life the year your father left. They breathed the same air in my world for 3 months.   For 3 years since he died  I’ve been waiting on profound insights.…

  • Stage 2 Anger

    The **** giveth and the **** taketh away But *** is a little bitch Who takes all the Poppies away.

  • Sewing

    Thread 1: Lucy saved me Tuesday and Wednesday from coming home to an empty window where Poppy used to sit, faithfully waiting for me (Picture 1). Yesterday, there was only an empty window and…

  • Where the Hell Have I Been?

    I may activate your gag reflexes. My blog has laid dormant but not forgotten. My time has been spent doing academic writing for the grad class I’m taking and learning how to be a…