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Tag: estrangement

August 13, 2024

The Bullet

I told you that I had left New York for good, but I told you a lot of things. I’m not a liar, I just don’t keep up with the future, and so I really never meant to make it back here, and I really thought that I had moved past this, but here we…

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March 22, 2023

By Design

Your power was my own now,but it felt foreign to my fingertips,You had been a stormy stone for so long,struggling to summon me home,just bones, returned to the earth,your name etched into the slab of grey,no guilt, just a strange discomfort,and an obligation that never felt quite urgent. It was nothing to be frightened of.…

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March 13, 2023

She Has Reached The Anger Stage

She was scattered across the house,secret ashes that he couldn’t let go of,as if there had been a fire,a small, silent child ripping across the sideboards and the dining room table with a rage he couldn’t remember,but begrudgingly accepted. “That’s my special girl.” His voice was hoarse as he showed his neighbours his hoarded images…

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