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Wait
She woke to the feeling of cool fall air on her skin, and the whisper of leaves fluttering near, like an aspen or cottonwood’s rattle, and her eyes strained to see, and because so much had been in her minds’ … Continue reading
Untranslateable
Gone in a flash, in an instant, in a moment and all I have left are the memories of a time and place that never were. I can see your too-blue eyes and I can taste the smoke on your … Continue reading
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Toska/Saudade
In another language, another lifetime, in another place, if I were someone else and not me I would be able to find the words that mean homesick for an idea. Homesick for the remembrance of something lost. I would be … Continue reading