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Apr 17

Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps

I recently read a missive denigrating a race that listed, among its complaints, the “urban” section of trail and — more specifically — the… — I recently read a missive denigrating a race that listed, among its complaints, the “urban” section of trail and — more specifically — the presence of people experiencing homelessness within that section. As a runner, I understand. You’re on your favorite trail, or participating in an organized event and you…

Homeless

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Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps
Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps

Apr 8

Facts, five years after my sister died

: My eggs this morning looked like the moon’s surface. — : My eggs this morning looked like the moon’s surface. : You’ve been gone for 157,680,000 seconds, give or take. : After my father delivered the news, he pocket-dialed me. I saved the message and still listen to it, though most of what I could hear was only breath. …

Grief

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Facts, five years after my sister died
Facts, five years after my sister died

Mar 6

Erasure

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett, Collette Pichon Battle spoke of our collective moral obligation to support our community’s most… — In a recent interview with Krista Tippett, Collette Pichon Battle spoke of our collective moral obligation to support our community’s most vulnerable members, and the collapse of the systems that are — theoretically — designed to provide that support. She said:

Poverty

5 min read

Erasure
Erasure

Feb 23

A poem about someone who’s housed, and a few people who are not.

I don’t want to write anymore. — I don’t want to write anymore. Instead, I want to draw tiny hearts everywhere, doodle daisies on the arms of people I meet so I can show them something can grow here The woman who waits weekly at the pantry who revealed she lives in an office building with her…

Addiction

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Dec 17, 2021

On waking

What is the American Dream, exactly? What wretched refuse of what teeming shores of what shithole countries still look to our shores, our… — What is the American Dream, exactly? What wretched refuse of what teeming shores of what shithole countries still look to our shores, our own wretched refuse, and aspire? What hallucination, what hologram, what choking regurgitation or recapitulation still serves in slumber or sentience? …

Poverty

2 min read


Sep 18, 2021

An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx

I probably don’t have anything new to say to you. I bet I don’t have anything to say that will change your mind. I suppose neither is the… — I probably don’t have anything new to say to you. I bet I don’t have anything to say that will change your mind. I suppose neither is the point of this. Truth told, I’ve got some shit to say, and I’m gonna say it. I had a COVID scare this…

Covid 19

5 min read

An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx
An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx

Jul 31, 2021

On death and space and work

I keep a list on my phone of people I’ve loved who have died. — I keep a list on my phone of people I’ve loved who have died. At my work, we call these people “neighbors” because they literally are. Our neighbors. …

Mwc Death

3 min read

On death and space and work
On death and space and work

Jul 19, 2021

On the days I don’t write poetry

My pen skids instead across a check; court fees covered, eviction evaded — On the days I don’t write poetry My pen skids instead across a check; court fees covered, eviction evaded I lock eyes with my best friend over her croissant and we explore practical, necessary questions, like what kind of container can catch all the tears that fall from “this is…

Poetry

2 min read

On the days I don’t write poetry
On the days I don’t write poetry

Jun 30, 2021

Mythos

In the legend, homeless camps are erected under billboards extolling life at conception — Mythos In the legend, homeless camps are erected under billboards extolling life at conception a man opens fire on a politicized pulpit, the pastor maskless and undefended the charter school principal blinks, astonished and vapid, at the question: how many students receive free lunch? No such thing as free lunch…

Poverty

2 min read

Mythos
Mythos

Jun 26, 2021

On fur & mortality II

Dear Ruby, — Dear Ruby, I must have met you in 2014. That’s what I think, anyway. Time gets distorted in moments of grief and loss — and it’s not all that easy to track anyway. I know I’m saying this to a dog, whose sense of time is vastly different from my…

Pets

4 min read

On fur & mortality II
On fur & mortality II
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