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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


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Heschel