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May 16, 2024
another band I never need to see again
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May 3, 2024
My Multitudes
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14
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April 21, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry
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April 16, 2024
Invincible Summer
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March 30, 2024
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Sestina for the Key Bridge Construction Workers
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March 14, 2024
She Wants Birkenstocks
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March 13, 2024
The Language of Opposites
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March 12, 2024
Haiku
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The Sacrificial Leaf
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Conch
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Bud, What Do You Know of New?
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Grief
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No Rest For The Busy
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Sweet Corn
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Sweetplum Rosehip
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February 29, 2024
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Yes, She’s a Woman
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February 28, 2024
Because I Looked For It Today
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Nun and the Art of Lawn Maintenance
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February 24, 2024
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Beauty & The Beast
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February 21, 2024
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Sheela na gigs
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breaking the law
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February 19, 2024
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Standards & Oil
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February 18, 2024
to shimmer and to shine
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January 28, 2024
the last word is love
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December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023
honesty: such a lonely word
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November 13, 2023
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the rub
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October 20, 2023
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The Tallest of the Toms
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October 18, 2023
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muffin-top love
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September 12, 2023
Not Strong Enough
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August 10, 2023
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fairy dust
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August 5, 2023
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worker bee–another tribute
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a shelter from the storms
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feminist first
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July 14, 2023
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my / brother / dying
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July 8, 2023
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powerless over death?
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July 6, 2023
July 26, 2023
just how?
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June 22, 2023
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power in a union
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June 14, 2023
April 17, 2024
marshmallow test: teen edition
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June 12, 2023
June 12, 2023
me and my knock-offs
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May 13, 2023
May 15, 2023
The Family that Wordles Together
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April 27, 2023
June 21, 2023
ruby slippers
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January 16, 2023
January 16, 2023
proud parent
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December 30, 2022
December 1, 2023
Apples to Apples
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December 27, 2022
BRADLEY
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November 17, 2022
November 25, 2022
the poem that answers its own question
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October 13, 2022
for mabeth
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September 22, 2022
raspberry moments
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September 9, 2022
ice queen
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September 5, 2022
regroup
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August 18, 2022
BAD POEM
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August 10, 2022
August 10, 2022
rosa rugosa
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August 7, 2022
August 7, 2022
why do i care?
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August 2, 2022
August 2, 2022
DAR JACQUE MATE
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July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022
dear dill
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July 15, 2022
July 16, 2022
the kind of student i am
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June 13, 2022
June 14, 2022
lamentation
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May 3, 2022
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A problem
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April 12, 2022
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the people are asking for a poem
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March 22, 2022
January 20, 2024
trauma impact statement
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March 22, 2022
September 1, 2022
already gone
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March 9, 2022
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something fowl afoot
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March 8, 2022
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control+X
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February 17, 2022
February 17, 2022
my BFD of a day
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February 9, 2022
February 9, 2022
enough
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January 31, 2022
January 31, 2022
so much for mantras
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January 30, 2022
January 31, 2022
necklace
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January 19, 2022
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pink baby
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December 28, 2021
December 29, 2021
one wonders
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October 4, 2021
October 4, 2021
revision
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September 17, 2021
December 14, 2021
to-do list
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June 22, 2021
October 21, 2021
painful ironies
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May 23, 2021
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hot and cold
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May 13, 2021
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opting out
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April 28, 2021
June 17, 2023
multiplication
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April 27, 2021
splintered
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April 9, 2021
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Pfriday
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April 6, 2021
ku/hai
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April 5, 2021
April 5, 2021
how to silence your muse: a haiku
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April 4, 2021
medicine woman
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April 3, 2021
quill
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April 2, 2021
April 27, 2023
safe
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April 1, 2021
April 6, 2024
geisha
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March 11, 2021
May 13, 2021
what do you do with a grievance?
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March 9, 2021
March 9, 2021
back to life
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February 8, 2021
February 21, 2021
i’m afraid i’m not very good at being left
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January 29, 2021
January 30, 2021
cold
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January 29, 2021
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temple
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January 15, 2021
February 26, 2021
lost brother
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January 7, 2021
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i / phone: a villanelle
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January 1, 2021
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second guessing
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December 31, 2020
December 31, 2020
hindsight: 2020
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December 26, 2020
December 29, 2020
susan
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December 21, 2020
winter solstice
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December 16, 2020
December 17, 2020
anti dog days
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December 11, 2020
December 16, 2020
little mysteries
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December 3, 2020
December 14, 2020
poem for anti-maskers
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December 3, 2020
December 3, 2020
a flock of seagulls
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December 2, 2020
January 7, 2021
good grief
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November 29, 2020
December 12, 2020
brain loss
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November 1, 2020
January 3, 2021
crate training
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October 24, 2020
October 27, 2020
smoosh
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September 18, 2020
September 18, 2020
my mother/myself
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September 17, 2020
October 5, 2020
Where I’m From
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August 28, 2020
August 29, 2020
just-because bret
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August 26, 2020
August 26, 2020
good highs, bad highs
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August 4, 2020
August 28, 2020
82 today: a posthumous poem
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July 11, 2020
July 11, 2020
for bret, because he asked
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May 29, 2020
August 1, 2020
dont wanna–too tired–can’t
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May 15, 2020
August 1, 2020
why i write
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020
the burn
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May 13, 2020
June 29, 2020
body of evidence
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May 12, 2020
July 25, 2020
even in death
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May 10, 2020
June 27, 2020
mothering / meaning
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April 27, 2020
April 8, 2021
for the birds
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April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020
relief high
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April 4, 2020
April 5, 2020
MAGA-fucked-up
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April 2, 2020
December 13, 2020
near-death experience
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March 31, 2020
December 24, 2020
sick?
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March 14, 2020
March 14, 2020
magical mindset
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March 11, 2020
March 12, 2020
SO SATISFYING TO HAVE A man GO DOWN
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February 6, 2020
December 13, 2020
gaslight square
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January 16, 2020
December 13, 2020
on brand
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January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020
skating lessons
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December 31, 2019
sacrificing martyrdom
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December 18, 2019
December 3, 2020
the gift of a cancer scare
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December 12, 2019
December 20, 2019
i don’t think i’m dying of cancer
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September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019
at the table of our humanity: a 9/11 poem
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May 22, 2019
March 24, 2021
oceans of empty
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May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019
sick’s silver lining
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April 23, 2019
December 21, 2019
not a love sonnet
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April 22, 2019
December 14, 2021
when despair grows in me—after wendell berry
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February 13, 2019
January 3, 2021
poem with no fucks to give
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February 1, 2019
December 20, 2019
running for my life
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
the twist
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January 23, 2019
September 1, 2022
what i know about forgiveness
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January 17, 2019
December 5, 2020
b.an.an.as!
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December 21, 2018
December 21, 2020
winter solstice
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December 13, 2018
February 19, 2021
\sex poem\
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December 7, 2018
January 14, 2019
to have a body / that a man would want
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December 4, 2018
February 19, 2021
the sins of the fathers
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November 19, 2018
October 27, 2020
loyalists (or: daddy issues)*
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November 7, 2018
December 28, 2020
censored
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November 5, 2018
June 7, 2020
my work
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October 28, 2018
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these days
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October 14, 2018
October 14, 2018
end times
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October 11, 2018
October 23, 2018
gift
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October 5, 2018
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liar’s den
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September 23, 2018
January 3, 2021
the fall
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the wishing
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