a love story

a love story: how we learn to wade in the water

Want the backstory first? Read A Love Story from the bottom to the top, or click the My Love Songs tab at the top.——- How We Learn to Wade in the Water Four months into parenting, Seth and I learn how to really give, to make room just as we begin to think we have [...]

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a love story: thirst memories

 Want the backstory first? Read A Love Story from the bottom to the top, or click the My Love Songs tab at the top.——- Thirst Memories We bring him in, tightly burritoed and jammed with blankets and buckles into a car seat, and we introduce him to our curious dog before I waddle to the [...]

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a lamb and her wolfskin: a love story

Want the backstory first? Read A Love Story from the bottom to the top, or click the My Love Songs tab at the top. —- a lamb and her wolfskin I have never felt more like a grown woman, a baby folded up inside like fortune in a cookie. I say what I mean. My necklines show [...]

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a craving, a joke, a love story

Want the backstory? Here’s my tape of Love Songs.  — Once I ate some gentle mushrooms and saw the pine trees slap their knees. We heaved together, the trees and I bent in laughter, my body in a ripple effect from all previous cravings: the soft peppermint candy from the front-porch neighbor with a tin, [...]

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a love story: ars poetica

 Want the backstory? Here’s my mixed tape of Love Songs. Becoming a student of poetry in an MFA program can be like entering the thirsty immortalizing high-school halls of vampires. We drink darkness.They instill questionable senses and question all instilled ones. Poetry has masks and blinders to wear, ancient rhythm for internal sonar, and lines [...]

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a love story: on re-vision

Want the backstory?  Here’s my mixed tape of Love Songs. When I tell him that we could be together forever, and when we pray and know it’s right, and we marry , and I can’t take my eyes and my hands off him, no one tells me how to fling my love up like a guard [...]

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