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Carmen


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Carmen is a code name

Carmen is a spy

Carmen is a spider 
stealthy, creative, loathed

when she should be beloved...
a month ago
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El Camino, Part 2

Like the El Camino, Elaine came into our lives serendipitously. She and Dad married the summer before seventh grade, when I was beginning to distance myself from my father, as daughters do. My new mom was fun and fashionable and loving. An...

2 months ago
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Vessels

photo credit: Egor Myznik

I’ve heard women are vessels. Not in the childbearing way, though that is also true.

In the way our bodies hold things for ourselves and for others. ‘Things’ being violations, punishments, tears, secrets, wishes...

3 months ago
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Ribes Sanguineum

The red-flowering currant outside my window stood naked. I envied the plant’s shamelessness and her elegant, if haunting, scientific name: Ribes sanguineum. Her self-possessed branches pointed skyward, while I sat inert, half-heartedly coax...

3 months ago
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming...

I intended to post part two of El Camino by the end of January, but interruptions happen. To put it mildly, January 2026 has not been ordinary. I don’t quite know how to describe it, so I won’t even try, but I will share that I had a good c...

5 months ago
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