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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Carson McCullers

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September 12, 2023

Purple hat in formless

I am teaching now. I teach college students, in the program I got my masters in. I don’t feel like I deserve to be here. I was not a star student (solidly in the middle) I am really struggling wi...


July 05, 2023

Tiny dancer in formless

Time moves in different ways than it used to. There are more things to get through the day, but I am continously alone with my thoughts. I often wonder if I was meant to be here, at this point in...


October 05, 2022

Patterns in the hills in formless

It’s strange to find myself here again. My son was born on his due date in mid July. I labored for 12 hrs (1pm-1am) before going to the hospital. I chose not to get pain meds ( until I couldn’t ...


April 20, 2022

Coming through in formless

I am 27 weeks pregnant I don’t know how much weight I’ve gained but it’s enough that my body feels like it’s no longer mine. I had an early baby shower (grandparents leaving the state for 6 month...


I have that anxious buzzing feeling like there are too many thoughts in my head so I just avoid them all staring mindlessly at my phone Sometimes when I write why exactly I am feeling this way I ...


January 10, 2022

Mockingbird in formless

There is a mockingbird outside my window. He fights with the scrub jay in the orange tree, both chattering and obnoxious. Sometimes it feels like the show is for me. I stopped writing, I stopped ...


March 17, 2021

I don't know in formless

I am 2 months away from finishing my masters degree They will let me graduate but I probably don’t deserve it I am behind on several deadlines and the ones I do finish in time are garbage My hous...


November 21, 2020

sun in formless

it’s the moments that you almost have, that leave a stinging impression in your mind The person I could have been the life I should have been living everything feels like nothing I can’t believe...


October 22, 2019

and it was in formless

I play a good victim a smile, but she’s not joking tears welled up in the corners of her eyes tiny shivers of emotions but they are insincere I can see it written clearly on your face You see pa...


October 09, 2019

the bottom in formless

it is the worst moment to realize that everything is perfectly clear, yet not clear at all You have your answers they are not what you want and it makes this way worse


October 05, 2019

harmony in formless

I am splitting the fractures inside trying to make themselves external I keep hoping that if I hold myself quiet and together for long enough the fractures will heal and things will go back to no...


September 29, 2019

Ends of the earth in formless

Come and find me where I am true and honest nothing other than what I want to be completely unlike the plastered faces silent smiles that others find the rigid roles we are all forced to play I l...


September 05, 2019

in the river in formless

you are ok you are here and kind and good love with your whole heart run until your lungs are empty feel the ground beneath your fingers don’t look at that bridge and think of how fast the water...


August 21, 2019

crystallized in formless

it is a distinct memory a sharply contrasted image of a person I once was the strange joy of driving a forest road at dusk, winding swiftly between trees on a empty road. you don’t say anything, ...


a fragile nature that creeps in slowly maybe I am glass shattered in the moments you least expect a fantastic explosion maybe I will withstand time and carelessness a delicate heirloom to be pass...


July 10, 2019

17 years in formless

scrape yourself against the crust of the earth the dust of thousands of years burning your lungs feel the rumbles ever so slightly each fingertip on it’s own she is the one that holds all the po...


June 24, 2019

fast in formless

it is hard to move forward when your strongest personality trait is self deprecation tomorrow I will turn 26 I don’t know where I expected to be at this age was I supposed to be married? Have kid...


June 20, 2019

6.20.18 in formless

I have been 1000 people worn 1000 faces I can be beautiful I can be ugly I can be smart I can be a coward A fact in denial: You deserve to feel shitty about yourself if you do shitty things He is...


May 14, 2019

WATER in formless

Gasping for air lungs on fire one arm in front of the other I am slow and struggling Have I done this before? pushed down under the surface it roils and boils against me I used to love it in clea...


hoping to drink away my lack of sleep the world feels large and overwhelming I hope this is the right choice I am glad that I had this opportunity to push myself to the very limit, no matter what...


November 12, 2018

but here we are in formless

California is burning my heart hurts like my lungs as they fill with smoke and somehow there is also numbness it will keep getting worse the roaring flames will eventually take everything everyt...


November 02, 2018

quicksand. in formless

Sometimes I think this is the only honesty within me the words hiding here, poured out at inconsistent intervals my idea of who I am is changing this program is erasing so much of that numbness t...


November 01, 2018

divide in formless

in a series of dichotomies there lies reality objects placed in a metaphysical realm I am the literal, the biologist the concrete and measurable looking for patterns and secrets a story untold w...


October 10, 2018

virgo in formless

Hi I am alive and OK I guess I am a month and a half into grad school and it has awakened my soul and also pushed me to limits I didn’t even know I had I don’t have time to write right now but he...


June 30, 2018

hyaline in formless

a slow dance inhaling a golden breath of sunshine your eyes are too much for me so many words unsaid so little time you are all the men I had loved the sparkling future almost forgotten find me i...


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