Away We Stay: Beautiful Scavenger
Does it make her less beautiful what she consumes? Does it make me less ugly with what I don't? There is some creature that delights in anything, even the messiest left-behinds.
Away We Stay: Suspension
Even more than trusting the constancy of the solar system, is the trusting of their bodies - the confidence in connective tissue to move the way it has many times before. The recognition that it's best to just let loose (ish). It turns out the only way to fly again is to unfurl.
Away We Stay: Circles Around You
I can draw circles around you. Are they the kind that constrict or highlight? Are we drawing a halo? Is it one you want? Is it one you deserve? Am I doing it for me? Or because I am actually thrilled for whatever it is you have done?
Away We Stay: The W’s
This is not the summer of my imagination. Instead, this is the summer of writing, walking, and waiting.
Making it to the point where I can embrace these particular W’s is, perhaps, one of the hardest things I’ve done in the years that include a global pandemic.