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Aug 61 min read

283: Mile 700

When the movers load the last box onto the truck and you are left at the edge of it all, stand in your empty apartment and sing. Let the...

May 61 min read

281: Tell Me Again

My therapist said Where would you like to start? I thought to myself, where does one begin? We could start with how beautiful it all is,...

Feb 28, 20231 min read

247: Tell Me

Tell me what you believe. Don’t stop with the words passed down like worn clothes, words you’ve you’ve swallowed and absorbed like melted...

Sep 19, 20221 min read

223: Instead of Spending All Our Money

I’d like to buy a fig tree for the living room, a cardigan for the plane, new prints for the walls We’ve talked about buying herbs for...

Sep 2, 20221 min read

218: A Filling Up

There’s enough time for one more kiss for caramelized onions on low heat, for handwritten I’m just thinking of you cards. There’s enough...

Jun 22, 20221 min read

213: Human

People say How are you doing and I tell them about the cracks in my calendar, about the dog at the window, about you and your desk with...

Jun 11, 20221 min read

211: To The Dad On The M5 Bus

with the daughter in the bucket hat and the son hanging off your leg, you deserve a medal. You deserve days off and jewels in your crown....

May 18, 20221 min read

205: What It's Like to Be On a Pilgrimage

I am hungry, famished really for a brush with the Divine. I’d take a strong wind, a colorful dream or the feeling of gravity that comes...

Apr 20, 20221 min read

202: Spring

All I want to do is to go to the beach and write poetry. Is that too much to ask? When did adulting become a full-time gig? When did the...

Apr 18, 20221 min read

201: What I Forgot

Sometimes I wish I was the fig tree. No fruit here, just soaking up the sun growing roots, turning green, stretching out my branches...

Feb 13, 20221 min read

191: Musings

What if I turned my face up towards the sun and said yes please to whipped cream and kept watching when netflix asked and pulled out a...

Feb 13, 20221 min read

190: On My Way

I’m on my way I’m catching a cab I’m en route to my favorite book store to the French bakery to the corner where we meet to holidays at...

Jan 29, 20221 min read

188: Enough

I can get no sleep fill my schedule to the brim push my body too hard hold open the door for anxiety forget to say nice things to myself...

Jan 15, 20221 min read

184: January

It’s the second week of January and I haven’t offered an eloquent prayer this week. I haven’t written a poem that moves me as immediately...

Dec 14, 20211 min read

174: The Best Thing

Maybe the best part about having adults that love you is the way they bring you soup when you get your appendix out or the way they check...

Nov 9, 20211 min read

166: To-Do List

My to-do list crawled into bed with me. Before the sun rose, before the dog was fed, before the coffee was brewed, before the alarm went...

Nov 4, 20211 min read

165: River

Do you think the River, as she travels, says hello to every rock and tree? Do you think she small-talks with the fish, fussing over how...

Oct 19, 20211 min read

162: Want

I forgot how to say the words “I want” out loud. I swallowed them whole sometime in the seventh grade which is the general age that girls...

Oct 18, 20211 min read

161: Winter

This morning I opened the window. It was arguably too cold for that kind of reckless window opening, but I couldn’t help it. Winter is so...

Oct 2, 20211 min read

157: The Last Time I Cried

The last time I cried was in a dimly lit bar tables scattered merely 20 in attendance. The music man at the mic said raise a glass Let’s...