Month: October 2025

• Presence

  Today I walked and walked and walked all the same sidewalks and neighborly streets I usually do and somehow I knew I would not find a heart stuck in or on the pavement a perfect shadow of light, the perfect pink petal of a flimsy cosmo “not today” something told me and I knew it…

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  October 28, 2025

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  art, grief, life, love, nature, poem, poetry, signs of life, writing

• Verticalities 

  If the truth stands and the secret dies  Why am I still lying on the kitchen floor   Of someone else’s heart?  Where is my heart?  What does it have to say?  About me, I mean.  Why am I still unable to say the word ‘Mother’ without explaining it?  Without experiencing that charge around my…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  October 17, 2025

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  art, grief, lies, life, love, poem, poetry, truth, writing

• The Mourning Doves

  All afternoon I listened to the Mourning Doves coo, this is what they told me:  “Now Button, we know you wanted a family. You’re a lone wolf now but that isn’t how you came in, not entirely anyway. You have always had a touch of anomaly to you- a little Moses in the basket grows…

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  October 2, 2025

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  adoption, art, dear button, family, foster care, grief, life, loss, love, nature, poem, poetry, writing