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Anders Crawford
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Queer kid from rural arkansas. He sometimes writes.
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I went on a hike. I wrote some words.

#arkansas #lit #poetry
AT THEIR FEET I couldn’t tell you how many times I tried to give myself back to the mountains. I don’t know how many lines of discretion I’d left with the novaculite peaks as I looked out over their dominion. Or how many borrowed problems I had laid upon the altar of sandstone boulders while we convened between sloping ridges. I told them the name my mother had given me when I was born at their feet. And then I stood beneath the PawPaw trees. I asked to put down root in their soil where worry drained away so freely. I’ve walked dirt roads, asking them kindly; waiting for them to snatch me away and take me home. They had accepted my blood and sweat, after all. They did not respond. That’s the thing about the Ouachita Mountains. They breathe alone and they just don’t care who you think you’re meant to be. @anderscrawford
January 19, 2026 at 7:58 PM