The Mermaid and the Sailor

A mermaid and a sailor share lives.

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Yes please.

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The secret to being loving is to say everything.

Volitaire

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I love these ladies very very much. They make The Upfront a wonderful place to be! All credit goes to Matty Photography

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Zen

  Just below my spot on the balcony

a few of the boys made a zen garden

out of the the volleyball court,

a spiral raked into the sand, 

and in the center,

a few stones,

just so.

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Oliver is trampling on them. 

One hand yanks impatiently on the net

and the other presses a smartphone to his ear

as he sways, clumsily riding the piece down.

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The contrast is perfect,

and just as I am cresting

on the poignancy of the moment,

Cross slouches by,

his balding head

and beady eyes fixed below.

He calls in his thick new jersey accent, 

“Ay, Oliver is screwin ahp the zen gahden! What a fahget!”

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Dreams of Death

One, I am wearing armor

carrying weapons

crawling on my belly

in the dark, dragging

bleeding onto the earth

clenching and swearing

with futile rage, party to the pain

of humanity’s long, grinding arc

slowing on a blank patch of desert

and rolling over to rest a final time 

over the wheeling infinity below

before dissolving and sinking

permanently into it.

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Another I am in the ocean

under the last of the antarctic ice

with the late dawn light

glowing down through

the arches of the cathedral

fading the phosphoresces

trailing off my scuba gear

as I ditch it, and it sinks

to billow sandy shadows

from the floor below

one lung of life

to set my mind at ease

floating in the cold, deep silence

diluting into it in the slow delusions

of the frozen dying.

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It's strange 

I do love this life

but I miss the end

like a father.

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i embroided my jacket (it says i dress for no one but the weather)

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...the weather can't read.

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All credit goes to Conner Peirson

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They gave us a dog with the RV! #sasquatch #shinanigans #girl #boy #dog #bestfriends

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Heading out to Out of Nothing premier!!! #movie #epic #girl

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Final for my Time Arts class. Nothing gets you in touch with your own anger quite like listening to this and thinking about all the times you’ve been objectified and belittled.

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Beautiful and perfect.