YOU COULD DO ANYTHING YOU WANTED a found poem using language from the NYT Minus Context Twitter account You could eat a watermelon in the subway— eat the earth and…
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July 2020. Before dawn. I start a pot of hot black coffee. Wait for my divorce from Jasper to go through. Spill coffee on the tiny black tile of the…
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Lately I can’t even remember how I got the idea for it. I know that my junior year of college I started sleeping with a woman who had spent the…
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My partner and I drive to the coast where the coves have been crumbled by the titan feet of the sea. To be near the ocean is one of the…
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Turning to Poetry for Hope during the Pandemic and the Uprising I am not one to shy away from talking about the limits of poetry. Poetry is many things,…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay“All that you touch you change”: On teaching Octavia Butler during a pandemic
Image Credit: Nola Johnson At the time of the transition to online classes, my high school students were reading Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower. The book…
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Image Credit: iStock.com/rattodisabina It’s an overcast Sunday; more Edinburgh than Arlington on what should be a sunny Memorial Day weekend. I pull the New York Times from its blue…
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Too happy Time dissolves itself And leaves no remnant by – ‘Tis Anguish not a Feather hath Or too much weight to fly – —Emily Dickinson Not long into…
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Seven years after my father died, I have a nagging cough I keep dismissing as allergies in the middle of a pandemic. I buy a new bottle of Robitussin each…
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Image Credit: OCD UK You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering. ~Ernest Hemingway This year, my obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis turned old enough…
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Image Credit: “Figure Toys Hugging” by Gaelle Marcel (@gaellemarcel) from Unsplash Beside my bed in a grey storage cube, among old filmstrips and bills, sits a large pink vibrator…
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My hands are dry, creeks of blood cracking open. A pink fury. I wash and wash and hope. * * * The first week of COVID-19 quarantine, I accidentally cancel…
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Image Credit: Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Last fall, my 17 year-old son spent three months recovering from a weed addiction while going to high school online from…
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Image Credit: “Self-Portrait” by Egon Schiele (1911) After twenty minutes on the phone with Andrew, our friend in L.A., who had just asked “so what’s on your mind lately,”…
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