Category: Intimacy
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18. Dissent
Love used to be stories: Knights win princesses Cowboys untie damsels Savages capture concubines Exchanges of property and wealth the brokerage of Catherine of Braganza Love was a trade When it was romanticized sometimes it started in the schoolyard or the fields sweethearts and youthful innocence held them like glue sticks The working class and…
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16. Bells
*Ding-Dong* waited at the door to be greeted by your father have you back by ten and treat you like his daughter made sure to open up and help you into the passenger moved the umbrella, meant to keep us from the water *Ring-Ring* our food was up after we waited by the window like…
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13 Caricature
you are in this chair, in this place for a few moments. I sketch your large head, rush through your body like it’s unimportant, to capture the features of the ego that makes you uniquely beautiful. I feel as if I’ve known you, but it is ethereal, known in relation to a few places and…
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09 Steady
“Steady, steady” I tell her, whilst knowing nothing about archery. she is able to hold the tension with poise. her hand resting against her cheek, where i wished mine to be, she listens to my steady advice. I too am composed, I think the string pulled back like the way she wore her hair; i…
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The God and the Ghost of Present Christmas
I read an Instagram post by Craig Groeschel about Christmas being a magnifier today. (For those of you who don’t know who Craig Groeschel is, he’s one of those muscular pastors that talks about how he doesn’t have time to dress himself in the morning) The intent of his post was to state how the…
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The Bride of Christ and No More Night: Meditation on Revelation 21:25
“And its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.” When I lived in Clarks Summit for 8 months I went to a sandwich shop and the man working behind the counter said, “This is the kind of town where you don’t have to lock your doors.” In other words,…
The Reconstructed 