love in a bottle (2021)
She met a man in the middle of winter, when a light gray had finally settled over the earth and tight stillness swept through the air. He came into her shop wearing a large black coat and leather boots that tracked in clumps of snow. He was disheveled: wet strands of dark hair plastered across…
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strings of fate (2021)
Dove liked to wonder how deep the sky ran. At some point, of course, sky would turn to the endless chaos of space, but when does order end and chaos begin? The sky was confined to the limitations of Earth, to reflections of light and clouds pulled by wind, and at the same time its…
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highlights from your local grocery store (2021)
A Version of a More Accurate Job Posting: Job Description: Mind-numbing. Soul-destroying. Mentally excruciating. You don’t really care, though. You’re just looking for something to hire you because you’re too young for skilled labor. You need money. We agree to give you some. You thought this place might be nice because you like to shop…
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waterfall (2021)
I think I’m a hopeless romantic. Not hopeless in the sense of hope (for me) is lacking. Not hopeless like consuming sighs, plucking rose petals that shrivel as they float to the ground, cutting out pictures of vintage wedding dresses and drawing squiggly white lines of glue onto a scrapbook page. Not hopeless like freefalling…
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tell me about it, stud (2021)
Before my dad and stepmom got divorced, I had a dream about it. Trying to place it is like trying to find the right word for a language you don’t know. I can see a car, flying down the road, but not on the road, drifting through the sky like that scene at the end…
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rainy day (2020)
droplets splatter brick-paved streets, coat the hair in grease of those unlucky enough to forget their shelter. well, some just choose not to care. after all, what does a little water do, other than soak the remains of your dignity, wash the clothes already washed the night before, create a temporary inconvenience? a polka-dotted umbrella.…
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overthinking (2020)
i shred my skin and run it through the teeth of a knife my blood runs and settles in a black cave by my feet if you listen closely, you can hear an echo. wait for the scream, or is it more of a cry. the noise tends to be the same when it’s endlessly…
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time travel (2020)
it’s a mistake to believe society would always end up where we are. cause and effect are not a linear passage through time and brain development and human catastrophe. irreversible damage is made even worse knowing that spirited flames are ashened by still water, any water, but you froze, and the water never left your…
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The Dying Wish and Poetic Inspiration in John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” (2021)
John Keats’ collection of odes can be read as the speaker’s development through using poetry to contemplate the outside world and his internal musings, with “Ode on Indolence” refusing to give in to the lure of love, ambition, and poetry, while “Ode on Melancholy” openly rejects lying in sadness and urges the audience to embrace…
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