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While this is less about subverting cultural expectations and more about my personal experiences, I hope everyone who has struggled with their mental health at some point in their life can appreciate this piece. ๐ค
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Wolf Pack
a small but firm presence
viscerally spooky
possible arson that sparked a vast, fatal fire.
two teen survivors
supernatural trauma
a full moon
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wings cocoon the princess, not to maim or burn, but to restrain;
to preserve the dragon lady and her brimstone reign.
despite her fearsome guard, she does not faint, fight, or flee;
will i survive an encounter with this deadly pair? maybe.
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wizard wolf wrestles wyvern which smokes;
sulfur winds stir his pale blue cloak.
who will win โ furry beast versus scaly beast? we wonder.
life or death in one fall of claws, a single blunder.
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it tastes and smells like disney world!
(i guess thatโs called โhumidity.โ)
a disney scene unfolds in front of us:
a lone turtle, ambling across the footbridge,
his hardโshelled friends obscured by vines and
crowded under a heat lamp on a shelf of stone.
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into the arid glass chamber we walk, where
leafy tongues graze the streaky ceiling;
pine pricker barrels squat by our knees;
a skull perches on dusty rust rock slabs.
we pass through, fingers tucked into palms.