Blue-bells
coaxing melodies from morning grass. Blue sunlight
spilling into sidewalk cracks
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Blue-bells
coaxing melodies from morning grass. Blue sunlight
spilling into sidewalk cracks
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My name is Dan.
I'm Dan the Stickman.
I live with my Mom in her triangle blouse
There’s a
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She can hear a lot in the silence.
The surprise, for one, from her teacher, as he looks at the jumble of letters on his roster.
The confusion, as he looks from her first name to her last, unsure
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I was sitting in a public square in Athens, when I saw something that Intrigued me. A young man, not five meters away from me, who also sat on a smooth bench of stone, was happily chewing on a gyro ... [+]
This is a story of a girl named Chartreuse. She wore overalls with great big buttons on the front--bright, colorful plastic ones that matched her bright, colorful socks. Her socks were striped and ... [+]
The first day of the apocalypse, life in Accra was business as usual. Somewhere, miles away, politicians’ scrambled voices were heard on rarely-used airwaves. The voices' owners sweated through ... [+]
1. Worms on the pavement after it rains. I always forget just how many worms there are in the ground ... [+]
Thou said it well thyself, O Lord my God,
That all the earth shall fall before Thy Love,
All
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My reflection is staring at me again.
Now I know what you’re thinking: “Of course it is!” you say, chuckling to yourself and thinking I must be an ignorant child, or perhaps or an elder whose
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I’ve heard Frida Kahlo paints flowers so
they will not die.
I am not a painter, but I
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Do you ever wonder if sand wants to become glass?
Trillions of little sand particles, each unique
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"Stop fidgeting. You look like a drug addict," Charles said, taking Elise by the hand.
She shook him off. "I can't help it. The band tickles my wrist."
"Then don't wear it."
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You cried when you learned Kobe Bryant died.
And not just silent tears that streamed down
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