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Rub Rub Pat Pat
It’s drive thirty minutes East to get eggs and milk from the farmer lady. Little chickens, yellow and brown and red cluck, cluck as they waddle in the…
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Jennifer and The Inhuman Institution
When dirt was in the process of no longer being home. The sky no longer residence of the great creator. The ocean no longer an edge of a mystery.
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Home Begins in Water
Home begins with whooshing and mama’s voice through water. It begins with her breathing, a rhythm like her heart beating. Home begins in water.
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The Easter Flower
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The Motion Toward Restoration
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How to Return
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There's Nothing Wrong With Us
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How to Return
I have indeed felt that expanse - when my feet bare felt earth soft and cold underneath. When my skin lie on hot white sand. When I watched the sun…
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The Easter Flower
Perhaps in life we bloom upon bloom in new ways like a revolving door or a winter that always returns.
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They Will Tell Stories With Their Bodies
They will pat pat, dance dance on the soft white ground. They will tell stories with their bodies of who they are and where they come from.
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There's Nothing Wrong With Us
A dream and a letter to Gen Z, Millennials and everyone else
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Spring in Tennessee
As the sun stays longer and friends talk at street corners longer, flowers purple and rabbits graze and sky blues and kids return to blankets on…
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Why Do Some Things Fit and Others Never Do?
And then on the other side is Greg, who pinches and kisses my cheeks and calls me his angel. Every morning he walks with his little, white dog past my…
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Behind Eyes
His skin is dark like cherry. So dark, it’s red underneath. He wears overalls and has a gap as big as the Cumberland River between his two front teeth…
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A newsletter of short essays and poems, exploring the meaning of home through a journey across America
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