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January 4, 2023January 7, 2023

Cold Days, Colder Nights

Are you worth the wait?
Are you worth the fight?
Time will tell me,
If you are.

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August 23, 2022August 24, 2022

Downtown Haiku

flowers through
the white pickets reaching out
leave them hangin’?

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August 14, 2022August 23, 2022

Mastery – An Otherworldly Experience

Skill makes you a salary,
Art makes you a fortune.
Salary can be earned instantly,
Fortune takes time.

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August 14, 2022August 15, 2022

Feminist Manifesto

I understand men are physically stronger but I also know given the history of oppression my gender faced, they have to be emotionally powerful to survive.

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August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

Цыгане / The Gypsies

Это начало недели.
Сегодня небо голубое.
Зима здесь, холодно.
Я мало выхожу.

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August 12, 2022August 23, 2022

Pushing Beyond What’s Expected

Released in late 2014, Damien Chazelle claims that he put a piece of his real-life experience in Whiplash, a movie about going to the extreme limits as an artist.

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August 11, 2022August 12, 2022

The William Tecumseh Sherman

New York City devours itself
migrants from small feeder cities
of manufactories apples and granaries immigrants tossed out of the churn of global economics

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August 6, 2022August 11, 2022

Carpool Monologue

You might be anxious now,
but driving here is actually a breeze
especially in Oakville.

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August 6, 2022August 11, 2022

The Lures of Diaspora

The words Trauma and Witnessing in the title promises it will be more nuanced than mere irony.

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August 5, 2022August 6, 2022

Context

and it was all right;
everything was all right
from your smile to your heartache to your shoes.

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