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March 31, 2025

Into the forest I go

March 31, 2025/ Guest Writer
Into the forest I go

I just wish I could walk and walk and walk and keep walking. Maybe forever. Into the mist of an impossibly dense forest on an impossibly steep mountain. And then walk some more. Maybe I will find him there.

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March 31, 2025/ Guest Writer/ 2 Comments
missing, nature, community
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December 02, 2024

Unknowable

December 02, 2024/ Jennifer
Unknowable

But then sometimes you see all at once how much more loss has piled up over time. The loss of all the potential girls and women she could have been, might have known, might have loved, and the countless unknown people who have lost something by never knowing, never having been loved by, that girl, that woman who might have been.

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December 02, 2024/ Jennifer/ 2 Comments
distance, missing, time
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November 13, 2023

What blooms in darkness

November 13, 2023/ Guest Writer
What blooms in darkness

“Dear Felix,” I start my journal entries now, channeling my son through his two sweet syllables. I feed and water our relationship with words, not wanting to miss what blooms in darkness. I beckon him close, close, closer still.

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November 13, 2023/ Guest Writer/ 2 Comments
names, missing, words and song, poetry
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May 29, 2023

Birthdays

May 29, 2023/ Nori
Birthdays

I’m turning 38. You should be playing at the park with your cousins, learning to ride a bike. 

I’m turning 40. You should be starting first grade. 

I’m turning 50. You might have been falling in love, staying out late.


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May 29, 2023/ Nori/ 4 Comments
missing, time, anniversaries
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November 23, 2022

Baby X

November 23, 2022/ Guest Writer
Baby X

As a teenager, I hated algebra.
I could never wrap my head around the equations,
And the worst part was when I had to
Solve for x.

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November 23, 2022/ Guest Writer/ 3 Comments
missing, poetry
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September 26, 2022

Writer's block

September 26, 2022/ Emily
Writer's block

a silent brother
a missing son
a lost piece


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September 26, 2022/ Emily/ 3 Comments
poetry and song, words and song, time, missing
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