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Gunmetal blue eyes

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Meaningless excitement.

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The man who packed time and forgot the key.

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How do you know what you see is the same others see?

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O’Fallon

Where nothing happens, and it changes everything.Small town, long memory.The middle of nowhere, center of my life.We stayed because the light did.Everyone knows your name, not your story.Gas station neon holding back the dark. The train stopped coming, the sound never did.This is what forever looked like when we were kids.The diner closes at nine, the conversations don’t.We grew up circling the…

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The Water Test

Which of them is stronger? The one who watchesorthe one who lives? The truth: The part that watches is loud.The part that lives is quiet but it is still there. And it only gains strength from small experiments in movement.Not from forcing yourself.Not from rushing.Not from trying to “fix anxiety.” It grows from proving to yourself — in small, humane steps —that you can go into the water and…

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She asked me to take her portrait.She drew the whole wall with a ballpoint pen. I never told her how good she was. I’ve regretted it.

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The Rough Draft

There is this tendency to think that what we do must be perfect in order to be worth something. And if not perfect, then at least “good enough.”But the truth is: what you did is good enough.You are good enough.Even if more is possible, it doesn’t matter. There is nothing more exciting than reading a draft, seeing a sketch.The truth lives in the unfinished places—in the unprocessed pencil…

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The Bird Cemetery

Behind my house, a bird cemetery is slowly growing.It feels prophetic somehowas if forgiveness could come easily,light as a wing.

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Energy does not lie.The work changes when I show up fully.It stops needing my explanation—but I still need the moment it meets someone.Force without depth is only noise.Anyone can scream.The real question is what you’re saying.

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I still see us, just not as clearly.