Tagged: old
carrying home new
carrying home new
books, with a freshly printed
library card in
your pocket, is a rare reward
for leaving behind all you’ve known
.
20220319:1652
y
new neighbors are like
new neighbors are like
old neighbors – you can get to
know them all at once
.
20220210:2242
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our lot ends at the
our lot ends at the
[fill in the blank here] bicycle
is something new and
exciting to repeat until
we grow old and the wheels rust
.
20211104:2135
y
new friends
new friends
come and
go, but old
friends
come back
again
and again
.
20211007:2110
y
year after year – here
year after year – here
we are, disappearing – after
year after year, here
.
20210926:1441
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yes, trading in new
yes, trading in new
habits for old is as effort-
less as exhaling –
let’s try out new things together
as long as we can go back
.
20210812:2053
y
listening to old
listening to old
taiwanese songs in mom’s kitchen,
reaching towards an
old ache, real and imagined,
melancholy in our bones
.
20210624:1824
y
in the middle of
in the middle of
a pandemic, a lunch break,
old and new friendships
.
20210510:2139
y
the first december
the first december
in the new old home, we have
become privy to
the twilight dialogues between
the heat pipes crossing households
.
20201213:0647
y
becoming familiar
becoming familiar
with new streets starts
with forgetting old
ones, making room
for new turns and
bumps in the road,
so that there is less
chance for
tripping and falling,
getting lost – still,
we need more time
.
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