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My first book, Love & Lexapro, is available NOW on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble! Buy it, or don't. Either way, I'll be here with some weird takes and strange verbiage. For transparency I no longer take Lexapro...but I still love I think.

  November 2024     1 day ago

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Senza Misura

Charmed out of my unbuttoned blouse
By your wit, your laugh, your sigh.
Pulling at seams just to pull –
You unravelled my fragile life.

Softly treading in your shadows,
Beneath the screaming, wailing sky,
Soon your laugh was just...

– by Emma Alexis Woodard

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In November

My hair was long and thick and coarse.
It sat in braids.
It stayed restrained.
It stayed down and made itself small.

It was thinned.
It was straightened for length,
perfumed,
colored.

“No—not that color!”

There are...

– by Emma Alexis Woodard

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This is such a succinct and apt depiction of love being lost between two people.

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Lovely, lovely piece!

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Stunning

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My grandmother would have adored this - I like to think she'd read it while living.

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Keats demands to be read aloud and I adore that!

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Man, bring back gothic poetry. You know, while we're at it - hit me with another chronically depressed alcoholic that married his cousin.

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I hope we can all look to our rest with such calm.

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Interesting and evocative in such a short form!

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There is something so unique about the 4-2-4 style you have here, and I love it.

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Sweet and tender, as all the best love is.

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Wonderfully written

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This feels particularly heavy this holiday season. It's a lovely gift to those of us this piece touches, as none of us have to be alone with this.

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Quite jovial in spirit! I like it!

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I can feel the person's exhaustion with life. I feel their resignation, almost, to the way things have become for them.

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Lovely!

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