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

    day 14 - the creatures that lurk below -- the monsters that exist underneath my bed aren’t as scary as i once thought them to be. but if i’m not ...

    Apr 15, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 13 - astral dreams -- when i was growing up, sometimes i’d wake up at 3 in the morning and look up at the glow-in-the-dark stars dangling by a ...

    Apr 14, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 12 - caution: broken glass -- lately you’ve been feeling a little burnt out, so when you found that broken lightbulb at the bottom of the fire escape stairwell ...

    Apr 13, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 11 - odi et amo -- i am still in love with you and yet if i were to see you one day while i’m out walking in the ...

    Apr 12, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 10 - for you, made with love -- if you want to know what unconditional love tastes like, all you have to do is eat my mom’s homemade chicken ...

    Apr 11, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 9 - freshman year dorm room -- soft white light from the parking lot seeps through the gaps in her broken blinds and illuminates the otherwise pitch black room, ...

    Apr 9, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 8 - broken machines, broken promises -- the sign on the vending machine read “out of order: sorry for the inconvenience” with 4 exclamation marks and a sad little ...

    Apr 9, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 7 - lessons in self-love -- i want to fall in love with myself again because nothing hurts more than when you realize that you’ve lost the sparkle that ...

    Apr 8, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 6 - it's all in your head -- today it started out like this, you were in the car with your best friend, singing along to the radio and ...

    Apr 7, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 5 - i've been told i'm an old soul -- content warning : this poem briefly addresses certain content that might be triggering for some people (s*lf h*rm, SA, ...

    Apr 6, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Fractured Desert Windsongs

    Hi there NaPo buddy! You've got some great poems here so far, the first two are really beautiful. I am not religious myself so there are some references that went ...

    Apr 6, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 4 - learning to live without you -- you carried me in the rain so that my feet wouldn’t get wet after stepping in the puddles that collected in ...

    Apr 5, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 3 - i'll make the cranberry sauce -- sometimes i wake up early enough, when the sun still has yet to rise and the birds have yet to start ...

    Apr 4, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: talking to the faces in my floorboards

    day 2 - speak up (i can't hear you) -- my shower will not drain; i feel like that must be some kind of fucked up metaphor for how my ...

    Apr 3, 2021
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: 2021 Badge and Contest Information

    NaPo Completion + Poem A Day talking to the faces in my floorboards day 1 - i need a new form of transportation - april 1st 6:25pm day 2 - ...

    Apr 1, 2021


I wonder if people felt the freedom in our culture to love louder, if they'd be quicker to say "I miss you" when the absence of someone is felt instead of just thinking it.
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