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The Dark One

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Bravado

amazing manips.

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Beautiful Hell

dig painting drawings

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Spring and  Pointe

ballet

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Look through

photography

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Marta

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Literature

i like to think you think of me

you didn’t come to the airport. i didn’t send the postcard. these are small defeats. easy to swallow, easy to look back at, to pinpoint what we could have done differently, things that would have yielded a different outcome. vary the variables, reset the experiment— you didn’t get me flowers. i didn’t remember your birthday. paper cuts, not amputations. too insignificant to be remembered past the day they happened. blame is a tricky thing. hard to hold in your hands. the first time you take cough medicine that hasn’t been sweetened. a bone that breaks and heals crooked. a load heavy enough that holding i

Lit.

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Misty Forest Stock Package

stock

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Literature

retching, wretched

remember in the heat of june, when the town banned thirty minute showers, sprinklers, washing your car, and you tried to run the well dry pumping up-down on the curse of long fingers, reaching inside yourself in thirty-three swan dives and coming back emptier each time remember lying yourself bare in moonlight, spine stretched to the sky in a string of stars, hair tied up in a nest of split ends, undulating with the summer heat fireworks going off behind your eyes, the explosions in the sky lighting you up in six shades of guilty and green remember the after dinner walks, where clearing your head meant clearing your body: grazing the

beyond amazing

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