because we are women

because we are women we are often expected to make ourselves small it is assumed that our "narrow" frames ought to squeeze inwardly because we are women we are often expected to make room so that your balls can breathe and your legs can stretch yet just as our hips curve and our bellies swell...

gloucester/rockport to north station

with her cheap leather bag that she grabbed on amazon and her remade lunch plus her overnights oats portable charger USB cord extra tampons work ID card notebook and extra pens fresh off her 5:30AM yoga class in ehr goodwill slacks and hand-me-down collared shirt her chunky heeled boots marched her to the train where...

I see you

I see you over there, on that shelf your jumbled, swirly nature just waiting to invade my stability & for a few minutes that morning, I let you. I felt the deep sadness, the purest form of sympathy ––& not the pity kind, but one of utmost condolences–– for the struggles and wounds you never...

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fall

2018 the beginning of fall is like big bird but instead of his usual yellow plummage 'it's red a violent and bursting, demanding to be seen, red that singular autumn-blooming-- (dying)--tree reminds me that i'm not alone or that I am? or at the very least, that there is another breathing organism coming apart from...

private liberal arts college

hipster kingdom oversized sweaters mugs cradled in our palms burnt orange and forest green   a car passes by casting shadows through the window dimples, matte lipstick bad posture   high skirts and leather fabric may you forever reign

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