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  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 30 - unfamiliarity -- coming back home for the weekend has never felt so comforting yet so surreal at the same time. i’ve come back to the place i ...

    May 1, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 29 - golden memories -- i bought a coffee mug with a sunflower on it because it reminded me of the way i used to dance in open fields ...

    Apr 30, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 28 - rainfall -- it’s hard to remember feeling happy when it feels like sadness has picked me up and swallowed me whole and there is no one i ...

    Apr 28, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 26 - talk to me so i can feel alright -- i want to know what keeps you up at night, your deepest fears and your darkest secrets. i ...

    Apr 27, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 25 - laziness can't last forever -- it’s another sunday night and the laundry has yet to be done. dust bunnies have piled up in the corner and empty ...

    Apr 26, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 24 - pink cloud summer -- you wanted a pink cloud summer but when all you got was yet another heartbreak and you didn’t have anybody to help you ...

    Apr 25, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 23 - painful reminders -- something about seeing the old wine stains on the washed-out beach towel that was once yours seemed to bring back all of the pain ...

    Apr 23, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 22 - no return address -- to the hopeless romantic who has given too much of her heart away, please know that you deserve love even if others think ...

    Apr 23, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 21 - nature's persistence -- i am not my mother’s words or my father’s actions. no, i am the flower that grew out of the crack in our twenty-year-old ...

    Apr 22, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 20 - sleeping in -- yesterday i slept in until two in the afternoon; i only started to wake up after the sun started to seep in through my ...

    Apr 21, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 19 - service recommended -- my laptop died while i tried writing this poem. the battery desperately needs to be replaced and i always seem to let my time ...

    Apr 20, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 18 - i've learned to hide the pain -- it’s getting bad again, but nobody seems to notice. i always leave the kitchen spotless because it’s one less thing ...

    Apr 19, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 17 - closure -- i remember the way you laid with me in my bed the week after you had ended things so abruptly; you stared up at the ...

    Apr 18, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 16 - revisiting the past -- content warning for some triggering language/subjects -- i. we spoke of suicide notes and love letters, people who were never aware of our ...

    Apr 17, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 15 - too much or not enough? -- he said that he always wanted to date a writer, someone who can make art out of their vulnerability and make ...

    Apr 16, 2021


Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold