Boom! Youre Pass What Can You Do?

Boom! You’re passé What can you do?

hello here’s a new poem of mine that was published in the 2018/2019 issue of Ellipsis & won their annual poetry prize!!!

I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome

from love as an act of merciful conquer by silas denver melvin

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the grief manual:

- louis l'amour: "all loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did i." i think that one day i will write that in the sand and watch the water wash it away and maybe that's the secret magic spell

- buffy's the body. anya's speech, "i was having fruit punch and i thought: joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever. and she'll never have eggs, or yawn, or brush her hair, not ever - and no one will explain to me why." tara's comment that it's always sudden, even if you know it's coming. buffy's comment that she's never done this before - this grieving a parent

- gandalf, or olorin, who was a disciple of nienna, a valar whose power was to weep forever. her power is to turn grief into wisdom

- mary oliver

- cristina yang and her introduction to the dead dad's club. "i don't know how to exist in the world where my dad doesn't. " "yeah, that never really changes."

- kurt vonnegut

tick, tick… boom! or its other name, “andrew garfield makes me ugly cry for 121 minutes straight