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·February 7, 2025

i’ll give you shelter

There's a part of me that wishesthat I could protect you from theworld as I crawl into bed beside you,placing...
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·January 31, 2025

Dictionary

What’s the word for when numbers make sense?When the lines line up, when everything evens out?What’s the word for when...
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·January 17, 2025

Chicago

Eyes closed, listeningTo the gurgle of the fish tankTo the violin someone plays a room overTo the faint wind chimes...
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Variety
·November 15, 2024

Take A Stroll

“the trees of our imagination rejoice in the moonless night”The page unfurlsBeneath my handAs in the dead of nightA book...
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ondrejkm·
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·November 8, 2024

but does it?

“the oceans of understanding touch inside the meaning”It doesn’t meanWhat you think itMeans.Or does it?Knowing, likeAn ocean,Just keeps on goingFor...
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Meridian Ondrejka·
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·January 31, 2025

Hurting

Do I write better when I’m hurting?When skin peels and my heartIs a vulnerable weeping thingExposed to the air Because...
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·January 17, 2025

Full Clouds

Weightlessness is so often a traitattributed to clouds on the horizon.And yet, when I look upon them, they have a...
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·November 15, 2024

The City

Above, there are golden spiresSafety rails and pretty gardensBelow, there are only square behemothsExposed pipes and cold corners Above, they...
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·November 8, 2024

Flash

“flickering lights of desire hurt after the storm”When you called my nameIn searchOf a reminderThat I am here.Do not be...
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·November 1, 2024

Poem about a Poem

Why is itthat I find,whenever I writefrom a first personPOV,it is always a herstaring back at me?...
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