Tagged: arrival
the first step to self-
the first step to self-
care is to better understand
how we arrive at
self – without community,
we are only ingredients
.
20220623:1604
y
we have once again
we have once again
arrived at a moment for
renewal – the first
day of summer, with raindrops
pattering on the window
.
20220621:2049
y
we count down the days
we count down the days
until we can return home,
syllables stretching
.
20220611:1508
y
you arrived in new
you arrived in new
york city from somewhere warm,
argentina, asked
us to take you to bubble
tea – we left footprints in the snow
.
20220131:1936
y
dawn arrives with a
dawn arrives with a
turn of the earth, a magic
trick, not fully solved
.
20211223:1838
y
against all odds, we’ve
against all odds, we’ve
arrived at the end of a
twenty-one month year,
a brand new calendar for
our unreal realities
.
20211214:2322
y
the calculus for
the calculus for
risk-taking has nothing to
do with math and all
to do with the privileges
you arrived with, by land, by sea
.
20211204:1505
y
september arrives
september arrives
with the monarch butterflies,
five generations
all at once waving hello
and goodbye in our backyard
.
20210905:2245
y
t-minus one month
t-minus one month
before homecoming – suitcases
out and ready, chores
crossed off, two by two, days become
longer, stretched across memories
.
20210718:1712
y
coming home after
coming home after
four hundred and fifty-two
days, so much privilege –
love, love, love, love bubbling,
gratitude spilling over
.
20210612:2043
y
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