Category: limn

• live, testimony that your warmth is one of many; be, a promise that there are still others.

  Jun-03-24

  friendship, life, love, poem, poetry, promise, quote

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• in retrospect, was the impetus meaningless, or the only moment absolutely critical?

  May-01-24

  limn, poem, poetry, question, quote, retrospect

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• every breath swollen with the doing of her dreams until her whole life was nothing but aspiration.

  Feb-18-24

  aspiration, breath, dream, limn, poem, poetry, quote

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• give your daughters names that begin with vowels, names that start softly, a window cracked open, a palm unfilled, sighable after too long days – but give your daughters names that end in consonants, names that demand completion, stubbornly refusing to trail off, unwavering, strong, constant. 

  Jan-04-24

  daughters, love, names, poem, poetry, quote

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• teach me all the best ways to do right by you, endure the way my interpretation will always be imperfect, forgive when i forget you’ve taught me lessons of you altogether, insist on this grace from me and with all.

  Oct-23-23

  forgiveness, friendship, love, poem, poetry, quote

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• fold a single paper crane, snap a rainshower of polaroids, press them into the palms of strangers; give away wishes to those who just may need one, explaining ‘here – it’s worth a thousand.’

  Oct-07-23

  friendship, love, one thousand paper cranes, poem, poetry, polaroid, quote, wish

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• fruit by our supporters but soil from the soilers, dirt from those who try to dirty us;  sink them into our roots, mineralized and hard and necessary for growth – everything but the poison they set out to be.

  Sep-15-23

  poetry, quote

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