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I try to respond. There are words in my mouth and I can’t pick the right ones.
“Being here is like standing at the edge of the sea under a wide sky: clear, open, clean, and bright. Here is where I am meant to be.”
― Spear
― Spear
“Like a Wife
The week before my wedding, my friend's dad
said: just don't get fat, like other wives do.
And so I brined him in a deep salt bath, added
thyme and celery. Devoured him whole, in one
big bite, so he could see just how hungry a
woman can be.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
The week before my wedding, my friend's dad
said: just don't get fat, like other wives do.
And so I brined him in a deep salt bath, added
thyme and celery. Devoured him whole, in one
big bite, so he could see just how hungry a
woman can be.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
“All different yet somehow alike-not family but easy with one another and loud, laughing and singing, bright and clean. The same bright, the same clean she remembered from the scent of the promised lake. The girl’s heart soared: a story came alive from legend, knights hunting dragons!”
― Spear
― Spear
“She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn’t see the pattern. There was a piece missing.”
― Hild
― Hild
“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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