Tagged: words
in between comfort
in between comfort
and condolences are words
that roll across the
tongue like hard stones, tasteless and
deficient, hard to swallow
.
20221129:1453
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for a southerner,
for a southerner,
not many words ring more soundly
than catfish nuggets
coming from the vicinity
of mama’s magical kitchen
.
20220928:2208
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steps behind, we may
steps behind, we may
never catch up – to the
urgency of a city
messenger, a delivery
service meeting its
weekend quota, a
breadwinner with
mouths to feed – sitting
on the couch,
debating the use
of the word immigrant
versus expatriate
.
20220123:0947
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even in helping us
even in helping us
pick out new chairs
for our first dining
table, dad doles
out words of
wisdom, eyeing
ones with backs
supported by
a spine that reaches
like a tree downward,
rooted and firmly
grounded,
so that we can
sit up straighter,
remembering
our own roots
.
20211130:2055
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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
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a call for simpler
a call for simpler
times – words
soaked
in the syrup
of privilege
.
20210723:1053
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with protection spells,
with protection spells,
great care
must be taken in
word choice –
and still, we
will slip up,
there will be
omissions,
like pandemics,
a deep freeze,
loneliness
.
20210222:2001
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here is a new old
here is a new old
chapter that we are mostly
relieved to return
to – the words sound familiar,
the tone, still aspirational
.
20210122:2000
y
some days i lose you
some days i lose you
to the unexplainables –
it takes two to let
time slip between the doodads,
get caught on the thingamajigs
.
20201229:0108
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perhaps more
perhaps more
than any of it
all, more than
education and
income brackets,
more than
compatibility and
the stars, more
than all the
coincidences
and preferences,
is the comfort
of shorthand
and shortcuts.
here’s to the
ninety-percent of
the things i don’t
say that still make
their way to you
.
20201222:1711
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