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Apr 24, 20211 min read

Gen·der - a poem

(n) 1. something navigated with an internal compass you'll never be able to describe...

Mar 12, 20213 min read

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, pt. 3: the Reading Playlist

I mentioned I listened to Taylor Swift's "folklore" and "evermore" while I read this book in part one of the series. Here's some more music.

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Feb 26, 20214 min read

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, pt. 1: the Purview

The first of three posts about this dramatic novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

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Feb 18, 20211 min read

(she’s so pretty / it hurts) - a poem

…she has a string between her lips / a hook in my heart / she tugs and it's the kind of pain that hurts so good...

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Feb 18, 20211 min read

(to have loved) - a poem

there's beauty in the way / we love people and we lose people / and how we sometimes get them back again…

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*Spanish for, you know, stuff.

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I've tagged blog posts and poetry about queer issues as "queer." This includes love poems because all love poems written by me, a queer poet, are queer.

Photos (left to right): "shh" (paper collage and pen, 5"x3"), an English Bananagrams board, "Portal Under the Bridge" (paper collage, 9"x12"), a Spanish Bananagrams game in progress, my ukulele wrapped in fairy lights.