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Month: July 2022

A Night Desert

July 24, 2022August 13, 2023 melissagenerally

orange on red on sand day-end, a cool breeze arrives, urges the sun to bed, tucks her in under heavy, dark hills shadow boulders shoulder rocks surrounded by vast ripples of the finely crushed: a lineage heat waves sigh and roll over and take the night to dissipate cactus blooms nod stars, thousands, a night… Continue reading A Night Desert

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closure is a myth

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 melissagenerally

unless, of course, you believe in it; by all means, believe. may it be your reality. like many a myth, as real as someone believed it to be. myths are lovely, comforting and kind and gentle to irreparable things. melissa suarez

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some things shatter, some things bloom

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 melissagenerally

matter is just a word for everything do you remember the way it mattered the moments planted without markers or a tombstone or silk flowers that could fray with time to mark the everything we found there, the way we didn't mind that some things shatter, some things bloom melissa suarez

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