/ high anxiety portraits /
when things fall apart you can see the universe
slip uneasily
lurchingly uneven
there are about a hundred and sixty thousand
turbulent
half-strangled emotions
I can think of anything
I assess
precious
strange
strained
perceptions of others…
a Swedish scientist
Meteorologists
when the temperature was above freezing
they remain in summertime
seeded by falling winter
as they remain in subfreezing surroundings
then begin to fall
picking up more along the way
snowflakes
which either arrive intact
or melt
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I haven’t kept to the morality of self-awareness and acceptance
there is the lesson of rehearsing and honoring limits
strength is not the issue
there is the lesson of celebrating possibility
while still
still holding down a job
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via our very own
@panoramariah .
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I have found my words in morning
though part of me
have more time without language
there is observing that goes on without it
I am learning the rhythm of the sound of laughter
I can feel in a way I never could
language interferes
how it gets in the way
you have to pay …
brain ablaze
feel like finding ourselves
knowing ourselves
don’t understand it
B and I talk
I feel like I am saying - and hearing -
the first wholly honest words of my life
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LOVE the power of the ending in @bethanyschutter’s piece! Thank you for contributing!
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I should be happy again
why not
it doesn’t particularly help me to be alone
I was thinking it over all the time
I was asking that question
you haven’t reckoned with all the complications-
complications?
I think I’ve had enough
anything I ought to do now is nothing compa…
It stands on her pedestal of perfection / a monster of light and of the moon / apart from a single dream - a man / strangely full of conquest / is the great new American achievement / the key to our future / the greatest effort .
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#blackoutpoetry#blackoutpoetrycommunit…