Mandy D. Chew

Lover of words & my better 3/4: @jonathangchew

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

#vss365 challenge! Word is #purge

You told me you donated everything from her
Even the dress she died in
I thought of how many times I’ve dug through abandoned clothes at thrift stores
Like it was buried treasure
And wondered how many ghosts I’ve actually purchased too

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@DanielC55186873 Hehe thank you so much!

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

#Exalt:
(verb)
borrowed
from a dead language
the Latin root exaltare
meaning
to raise high…
But nobody tells you
how thin
the air gets
once
they really lift you

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@Metacephalics Hehe

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@Metacephalics Thank you so much 🥹✨

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

I was told to #conduct myself
like a lady
But ladies
fold their thunder
into napkin shapes
and call it
etiquette
Where I call that
suffocation
in white linen

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@darkxfer 🙏✨✨✨

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@DanielC55186873 Thank you so much, I always value the community support so much here 🥹💕

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@DanielC55186873 Electric and sizzling imagery here, well done 🦋 🤖 👏👏

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@DanielC55186873 Thank you so much 🥹🙏✨

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@blsamaddar Thank you so much!

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

Grief is strange #jewelry
You never choose to wear it
You can't really return it
And yet
Somehow
it seems to go with everything

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@NinjaTHaii @blsamaddar 🙏🙏🙏

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@MariaAPerez1 🙏🙏🙏

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

To bake the bread
I chose the bruised peach
#knowingly,
for its tenderness,
for the way damage
sweetens what it
doesn’t destroy

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@espressolizzo Ooo overwintered apple they forgot to toss to pigs is such great imagery 😮👏👏

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@espressolizzo Omg thank you so much you are so sweet 🥹💕

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

she taught me the #ache
of the bell
after the ringing,
the way it holds
the shape of sound
in its emptied mouth
and knows
it will be asked to do this all again

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@JudithBristow1 Aww thank you thank you 💕🙏💕🙏💕

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

The dresser drawer won’t close…
something inside it keeps expanding
I think
it’s the #ache I folded
into last winter’s sweater
the one that fits the person I was
but not the weather I’m living in

#vss365

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@paulphillips44 Looks really interesting! Great job!

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@paulphillips44 Thank you 🥹🔔❤️

[Mandy D. Chew @mandydchew]

@derickijohnson Hehe the ending made me laugh 😹