//understories//
poetry & prose about intimacy, about deep feelings and meaningful lived experiences, about the exquisite aches of living and loving and parenting, about memory, and portals, and time travel, and private underworlds
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an incomplete matrix of becoming (opens the original)
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what happens when we write about the dead? (opens the original)
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A new poem written in a workshop. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="966" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SP9i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.
the naked ladies (opens the original)
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