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After a Stomach Bug
Every regular day is a blessing. Thank you, universe, that I am not kneeling over a toilet bowl vomiting. Such violence, over for now, all surfaces Cloroxed. I am free, for awhile, to sip fizzy water and stroll the sidewalks of the living. The daffodils are almost blooming—what a paradise,…
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The Distance Between Planets
When I read the news that no one will sit next to Tiffany Trump during fashion week, I feel the way I felt when I learned my daughter’s school was selling valentines to be delivered during the school day to kids whose parents or friends had bought them. Imagine waiting…
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Poem to February
Awhile back I swore I was going to try harder to love more. It’s going poorly. I hate February because it’s the month my daughter almost died in as a toddler. What doctors thought was a stomach bug was a rare strep germ abscessing in her belly. It’s the month…
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Red Light Green Light
When the comedian on morning radio makes a joke about white women who think the universe is telling them something I think I would quit— everything— if I could. The traffic’s just-before-rush-hour pattern, cars darting lane to lane, all speed and brake, mirrors my constant rearrangement of the day’s dull…
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Insomnia
The world won’t recede. Today’s small complications, minor irritations, inconsequential decisions are magnified 1000 x by my mind turned stalwart nocturnal animal with powerful night vision. My imagination spotlights future funerals like scenes on a stage. I gaslight myself. Any real or larger problem is apocalyptic in the dark. Tomorrow,…
