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June 2025

Let it disintegrate
A couple thoughts on letting it all fall apart. Again. -- I sit by a sparkling creek that runs by the library at my town’s university campus. It’s late…
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The middle school of it all
A poem on the weird middle -- they say middle school is the awkward in between for kids but it’s the same for parents too instead of braces acne and…
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the sweet and spiky
the nuance of changing dreams -- i used to think my dreams were products books and movements / things i could hold and measure
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May 2025

If you really knew me
you would know...I facilitated a retreat a number of years back and part of the weekend involved an open mic situation with this prompt, “If you really…
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Can fake trees heal?
Wrestling with the tension of it all -- I went to Hawaii and fell in love with the land my now-dead brother adored. On the plane back, my partner and I…
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Every square inch
A short poem about finding the tenuous middle -- my son is ten / trump’s been president more than half his lifewhile we’re giving everything we’ve got …
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It's wild being my daughter's ritual
A glimpse into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when it runs in the family -- She looks at me with pleading in her eyes.I look back into these beautiful…
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There's a part of me I meet only on vacation
I love her -- There’s a part of me that only surfaces when I’m on vacation. When I have almost zero responsibilities or obligations. I love her.I hate…
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April 2025

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