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28 May

Heartbeats

the earth is turning under our toes   and in each toe my heart beats it’s a heavier beat stretching to my last toe pushing through through the small fingers…

16 Apr

Click Click Click

Today as he woke up—the birds were chirping just outside the window. One tree seemed to be filled with birds, perhaps the flowers on this tree were the ones, which…

06 Nov

Sounds of Home

When she woke up the sun hit right above her eyebrows. She felt it reach farther down to her lips and to her stomach. “I awake!” she could hear the…

22 Aug

Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott

When their laughter had finally settled in their bodies, they sat on the moist earth and continued to watch an algorithem so expertly designed, so decisively executed, that they never…

04 Aug

Naomi Shihab Nye

And when he died, and I really couldn’t imagine how I would continue to live without this voice, until I realized I would always have that voice in my days.…

03 Aug

We Dance

We Dance the Blue Right Out We dance forever under the ground We dance our coffins down We dance the dirt clods’ bounce, the rain We dance the blue right…

25 Jul

Flor de Muerto

When the sounds from the street crept into her apartment she felt the orange flowers poking in from the square that lay just outside the door. Lia moved the couch around…

09 Jun

The Long Goodbye

I’m here in a long goodbye, one that might not end but I might just hold as I grow and the world grows with me.  Meghan O’Rourke captures it beautifully:…

09 Feb

Layla & David Part 2

“Wake up!” David said, as Layla woke up to feel the soft polyester stocking next to her face. “Santa came!” Layla could hear her mom in the kitchen in the next…

09 Feb

Layla & David Part 1

An attempt at youth fiction? _____________________________________________________ She felt free riding down the avenue. She imagined her hair blew her sweater blew even her small white socks somehow seemed to blow in…

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