HeyJaredProof of Life
For the woman whose sentences keep getting interrupted. Essays and poems on Motherhood and care.
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small marks (opens the original)
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a note: It's been hard not to show up as someone who derives her value from being available (working on this, promise). Also,s pretty par for course for women and mothers. But writing is always the thing, at the other end of all of it, that reminds me who I am. Even when half of me is doing it with one eye on the laundry. I hope one of these lands for you today.six inchesshe draws while i write,six inches of tablebetween two whole worldsher castle gets a moat,my sentence gets a beat,neither of u
one year in (opens the original)
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a castle with four turrets (opens the original)
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no.7 // thread (opens the original)
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It’s been years since I’ve done this. Cord in my hands again, and my arms remember before I do. Held up and level with the row of knots I’m working, until my shoulders go warm with the effort of just staying there. My fingers are learning it back too, the same knot enough times that the skin along the side of them thickens, toughens, holds the tension it takes to make a knot stay.Meanwhile my daughter, has strung a piece of string from the kitchen chair leg to the cabinet handle, cutting the roo
what comes to the fence line (opens the original)
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