How To Immediately Feel Like An Adult When You’re SeventeenFor M. Call the CRA. Escalation-rage trying to understand the questionsyou know you don’t have answers to. Try to register your on-lineCRA account. Realize that ‘line number’ doesn’t exist on your NOA.LYM. (Lose Your Mind) BSM (By Some Miracle), figure it all out. Wait three months for… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 3
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POEM A DAY – May 30
Good dirt under my fingernails like waxing-moon eyeliner, in my nose like pepper flakes noir, between my breasts like pesto on plump bread, on my skin caught in sweaty sunscreen like bedazzle…this summer day in the yard yanking and raking and pulling and pushing and mowing and picking and scrubbing and hanging…and now there is… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 30
POEM A DAY – May 26
outside climbs in robin chatterwind flaresquirrel scamper the raspberry lemon cakeslice on the window ledgewarms in the shade C sent me an articleto read about goldenshadow & I realize that it is envy climbingout of my stomach –a determined wasp not jealousythe distinction sitson the window ledge a crumpled napkinwith a dog hair tuckedin a… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 26
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