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Untitled, September 4 2015
This has been a trying week, with a lot of scary things happening close to home and around the world. I’ve been simultaneously trying to wrap my head around it all and to pretend that I don’t see the ugliness, and I keep coming back to this one thing that I simply cannot understand. With…
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Zoey, Shining
I’m looking through old things to read at an event coming up, and I found this, written three and a half years ago. Zoey, Shining there was a star- a tiny one. it blinked in the darkness, looking down at the world trying to find a home. the clouds were thick, the rain fierce and…
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Children Drawing Stick Figures at Night
I don’t think it’s juvenile aesthetics alone and poor motor skills that make us as small children inclined to draw ourselves and each other as stick figures. We are accurate representations of who we really are this way: no distended bellies, fat with greed and gluttony and the taste of our own malcontent No misshapen…