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Updated: Apr 11, 2022
Prompt: write about your alternate self.
She’s always first
overboard, diving joyously
into the deep, not saddled
but buoyed by the tank
on her back,
her mask, her fins.
Once in, it’s just her breath,
her belief in herself
firing her heart.
Prompt: a duplex, per Jericho Brown The air so still it makes my heart thrum. I can hear the strumming robins’ wings as they dart and dip beneath the dippling lilac bough that came down in the storm,
On Writing a Novel If I knew how to write a novel, it would be about two sisters in a big, fractured family. They’re in the middle. One tries, all her life, to understand the other. She thinks of her
On Learning to Paint More often than not, I’ve simply stood in dumb awe at the world, unmoving, unable to speak, a gasp held tight in my chest. Near my heart. But now, I load my brush with cobalt, red