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Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. How dense it is, how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. How difficult it is to move then. How impossible to believe that anything could lift that weight. There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheer miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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You Mean You Don’t Weep at the Nail Salon? By Elizabeth Acevedo it’s the being alone, i think, the emails but not voices. dominicans be funny, the way we love to touch — every greeting a cheek kiss, a shoulder clap, a loud. it gots to be my period, the bloating, the insurance commercial where the husband comes home after being deployed, the last of the gouda gone, the rejection letter, the acceptance letter, the empty inbox. a dream, these days. to work at home is a privilege, i remind myself. spend the whole fucking day flirting with screens. window, tv, computer, phone: eyes & eyes & eyes. the keys clicking, the ding of the microwave, the broadway soundtrack i share wine with in the evenings. these are the answers, you feel me? & the impetus. the why. of when the manicurist holds my hand, making my nails a lilliputian abstract, i close my fingers around hers, disrupting the polish, too tight i know then, too tight to hold a stranger, but she squeezes back & doesn’t let go & so finally i can.
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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RIP, Andrea Gibson. Thank you.
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Springtime in Harlem
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Insha'Allah, Danusha Laméris
March 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Small Kindnesses, Danusha Laméris
March 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Amiri Baraka
March 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The Gardener, Mary Oliver
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The Messenger, Mary Oliver
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The Gift, Mary Oliver
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The Good Life, Tracy K. Smith
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Wellness Check, @andreagibson.bsky.social
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A favorite by Ada Limón
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