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twenty-six, and counting

March 26, 2023

a bottle stopper for a heart, round at the one end,the other one sharp,perfectly balanced, if you hold it just rightfitting my neck to a T – I’d always found it difficult to admit tothe obvious sin of not being perfect, a painstaking shame in the face of failuremeasuring myself against the Trees of my…

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zwischen den Zeilen

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022

das Haus ist überfüllt und leer zugleich,nur hie und da ein leises Echomeiner selbst,die Räume dröhnenin der sich ausbreitenden Stille nur die Gemäldehängen weiter dort wo sie sollten,die Gesichter, umrahmt von Gold und Silber, drehen sich zu mir,folgen meinen Schritten undscheinen mir zu zwinkern und die Blumen ranken sichauf ihrem grauen Grundwachsen weiter, wachsen weiterihrer…

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of runners and moons

January 29, 2022August 10, 2022

I saw a runner jog past my window, on the dark and empty street below me and I envied him his freedom to go running at 9:31 p.m. without a care in the world            I’d wanted to go for a run, too, today but I was working and when I was done, it was…

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magnificat

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

anxious to please and breathless from the spinning of her world she stands there, crackling with the anger of a thousand licking flames desperate for approval, or anger, or both, any emotional reaction would do – for how could anyone know how it felt, truly, to be her, gravel in her mouth and water in…

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printemps

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

Worte fliehen leise,sanft,aus deinen Augen, deinem Mund,sie streben hoch und immer höherin die Dämmerung Richtung Mond draussen sieht es müde aus,die Bäume rauschen ohne Eiferich sitz’ in meinem Schneckenhausund in mir drin wird’s leiser jetzt ist es Herbst, bald kommt der Winterwärmer wird’s wohl lang nicht mehrwas davor ist, das weiss ich schon, nur: was…

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ghost-making

November 27, 2020January 27, 2021

tap-tap he cries and listens to your soul at night tok-tok he sings and grins into your heart at nightchop-chop he flings and murders your light dreams at nighthear-hear he roars and hits your fucking shins at night “you say you made a ghost of me, maybe that is true; you seem to have forgotten,…

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what I’ve been reading

what I've been reading

A Room of One's Own
it was amazing
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Normal People
liked it
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Emma
it was amazing
Emma
by Jane Austen
Saturday
it was amazing
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Winter der Welt
liked it
Winter der Welt
by Ken Follett

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