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Step away from your fears.
Lay them down on the floor.
Watch them fall from your hands
like a dirty load of laundry.

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I’m writer’s block. I’m a forgotten dream by morning. I’m the cup of tea that’s gone cold.

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If it isn’t okay, then it isn’t the end.

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The closest friends and family members of Eliot and Hale expected that if and when Eliot’s first wife died, the two of them would marry. So did Hale.

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You collect verses of my poetry
and attempt to
reconstruct them
until you can convince yourself
that you have always been
my muse.

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This year, winter seems new.

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Flickering, fading, intermittent 

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I wait for the nights when I’m drinking with friends and the memories flood into each sip and I go home early to write. 

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You will find yourself entranced by a blood orange moon, her light dripping out of space and into waves speckled by her light, like freckles forming constellations incomparable to the heavens. 

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Ευπρόσδεκτη; welcome, welcomed, appreciated, palatable