At The Bottom Of Everything

At The Bottom Of Everything

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have you ever forgiven anyone?
This past Sunday, the marathon runs through the front window of our house.
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what is it that you might say?
When I was in my early twenties, I was in Vancouver for a business meeting.
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how do you live with longing?
You don’t need to tell me.
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do you measure first?
It could begin, say, four tortured hours into trying to hang a TV.
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where's the door?
The last ocean K and I saw together was the North Atlantic.
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what must I do to get here?
Ukee, our now fifteen week old goldendoodle that we knowingly brought to live with us over a month ago sleeps only three or four hours in total during…
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has your tea gone cold?
In our temporary housing, a small routine has emerged after three months, which is an impossible amount of time to even write.
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what makes you feel vulnerable?
The list of items irredeemably destroyed by the house fire is currently over 800 items long and it is my legal responsibility to click on the photo…
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is now a good time?
I take our Great Dane out into pale sunshine. It is a little colder than I thought it would be. The Dane is unusually full of energy for a senior dog…
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do you know your ocean?
Kurtis and I had similar handwriting. Sometimes and still when I write in particularly large letters, I see the echo of his hand, the way he would write…
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what does it feel like to be you?
A small brown bird is dead in the backyard. No sign of how or why. I think it might have run into the garage window but the window is shuttered, it is…
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sitting on the swings alone
I lived across from a small playground until I was about eleven years old. A swath of green grass around the neat rectangle of red dust and loose rocks…
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