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Crow's-Feet
...I'm holding some wild
idea of unity, conviction, like a jar
of pollywogs, so carefully carried,
so full of potential, live, live, I say
quietly to the far, which isn't a jar
but my own pounding invocation,
I am not fading, but becoming
ungovernable. ...
— 13 hours, 17 min ago
...I'm holding some wild
idea of unity, conviction, like a jar
of pollywogs, so carefully carried,
so full of potential, live, live, I say
quietly to the far, which isn't a jar
but my own pounding invocation,
I am not fading, but becoming
ungovernable. ...
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Alena
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"The hurting kind"
I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
— May 08, 2026 04:56AM
I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
Alena
is on page 57 of 232
"Flood Coming"
The pulled-apart world scatters
its bad news like a brush fire,
the ink bleeds out the day's undoing
and here we are again: alive.
...
Don't run. open your mouth big
to the rising and hope to your god
Your good heart knows how to swim.
— Apr 27, 2026 04:56AM
The pulled-apart world scatters
its bad news like a brush fire,
the ink bleeds out the day's undoing
and here we are again: alive.
...
Don't run. open your mouth big
to the rising and hope to your god
Your good heart knows how to swim.
