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Shae Gabriel
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“stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Milk and honey
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Milk and honey
“all my grief says the same thing:
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
and the world laughs.
holds my hope by the throat.
says:
but this is how it is”
―
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
this isn't how it's supposed to be.
and the world laughs.
holds my hope by the throat.
says:
but this is how it is”
―

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God

“I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you —in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“we're the adults here so we take naps in the
middle of the afternoon with the window open.
there's an ice cream truck singing down the street
and I haven't hung up my clothes. I text your mother
a picture of you on your first day of work and say
isn't he handsome. our toothbrushes sitting in a cup
on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing
I have ever known.”
― We Were Young
middle of the afternoon with the window open.
there's an ice cream truck singing down the street
and I haven't hung up my clothes. I text your mother
a picture of you on your first day of work and say
isn't he handsome. our toothbrushes sitting in a cup
on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing
I have ever known.”
― We Were Young
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