Month: December 2023
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grief (or nine christmases)
a winter ripe orange use to sleep at the forgotten foot of his christmas stocking each year, mine too. my sweet boy doesn’t remember his first orange, his first christmas. not his second or third even too (i do) will he remember this one? his tenth; a bumpy round fidget ball where the firm slick…
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seven days in december
the potpie settles and sticks beneath crispy potato plumps. their shoes squeak like new chew toys on scratched hardwood. the metal tree is clumped with the light of 44 honeyed candle combs. the crumbled cookie tastes of bitter chocolate and butter in their mouths. the gristled sky refused to let down its stubborn snow. his…
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sugar coat
she was smiling when she saidshe wasn’t gonna sugarcoat it anymore because she didn’t have tobecause they’d settled the lawsuit because she’d lost her job but regained her soul;i’m paraphrasing but you catch the gravity of the situation because you’ve been her before too, haven’t you-pushed hard against that stitch in your side from the…
santos scribes 