Featured Series: Bedsheets and Petals
Three-line poems that describe the conflicts between beauty, sadness, fear, and desire.
Featured Post: Dandelion Ballerina
I want wrists curved like butterfly wings; a jawline arched like the vein of a leaf; a ribcage like a harp. I will sway to music-box melodies beside the daisies: the dandelion ballerina…
Featured Series: My Nature Series
A collection of pieces that revolve around the nature and nurture creation of a human being, told from the perspectives of air, water, earth, and fire.
Featured Post: Holding Breath in a Room Full of Air
She was trying desperately to break the boundaries of her being and bind her blemishes in bandages...

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Archive of posts published in the category: Responses to Text and Thought

This I Believe- The Power of Imagination

           Imagination is a mystical, iridescent substance that is borne within the minds of all children. There in our minds, that unique brand of imagination will exist for all time, and yet the more that one uses it, the more powerful and colorful it will become.…

The Crease

A baby. She was small enough to fit in one of my hands, completely bald but still the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. At night, her wails were like torture to me. Siena and I would take it in turns to…

Physical Force and Physical Love

Through currents that are subtle yet nonetheless powerful, dominance is a controlling factor in relationships- both of the past and present.  Dramatized to demonstrate the effects of dominance, the connection between passion and violence in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire is based on…

Temptations of Preservation

Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) created by the text creator in your chosen text about the role of self-preservation in the face of competing demands. (Cold Critical) Human beings are creatures who place enormous importance upon our individual self-preservation. We take every opportunity that…

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