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But Rooftops Did All the Work
As is the custom, two humans make a humanity Tongo Eisen-Martin What if our lives are but a series of rooftops — built over time, constructed and then reconstructed, and then reconstructed — connecting us to one another with floors and ceiling...
read moreLet’s fall in love II
Let's fall in love like we never did before or Like we did and learned from it all. Dawn Lanuza What if falling in love means learning from it all? I am reminded of a beginner's mind. I am reminded that we — all of us — walk hand-in-hand. I am...
read moreLetter From My Heart to My Brain/ Letter From My Brain to My Heart
Its okay to hang upside-down like a bat,/ to swim into the deep end of silence,/ to swallow every key so you can't get out. Rachel McKibbons I am not sure where I learned the few coping skills I have. Hanging upside-down. Silence. Swallowing it al...
read moreOde to the Clothesline
Not so much the missing of things/ but the nostalgia of colors, their music,/ the ordinary revelation of a family life/ caught in the flop and dance, a jig Kwame Dawes I have never had a clothesline. The idea that a clothesline might be the revela...
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Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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