At The Bottom Of Everything

At The Bottom Of Everything

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waiting on the line
There’s a devastation of goslings outside the window.
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the bottom of a hole is the back of a cave is the top of a hill
It seems to me one of the great burdens of existence is just how many levels of living there are.
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for Shira, who asked
Sometimes, I have to remind myself to take a breath when I remember that he is not going to sit down on the couch beside me and ask me how I lived that…
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lucky despairs
I hear the train before I see it.
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everything I couldn't fit in a text
on what I'd say/not say about losing a home to fire
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to + fro
This holiday season has been rocking me between the tough and the tender.
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the whole gig
I have now been sick for as many days of November — an unending flu that will not relent.
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finding a way in
In New York, fall is losing its mind.
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moving the moon
I once watched K surf the Pacific Ocean while I burned with fever and ate an almond croissant, brushed its buttery flakes from my skin.
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some of what's left
By the time we fly from the small town by the edge of the Pacific Sea where we married only hours before we have been travelling since eight in the…
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the heart is an organ of fire
Before J and I catch our flight to our wedding, we pack our suitcases the way you do when you are going on a trip of impracticality. A bikini but no…
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living beyond a limit
My backyard is stone, save for one thin strip of earth, in which, incredibly, impossibly, two lilac bushes thrive and one hydrangea bush survives.
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