Category Archives: Identity in Suspense

125 – The future will be fine once I make it there

I have no idea what next year is going to look like. I know I’m not working for the paper. I know I am living in the hippie commune. I know I’m…taking classes… Applications are coming out for everything and … Continue reading

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111 – My body is never where my heart is.

2009, December 20 – 21:34 I have this yearning right now to go to a war-torn country. Yemen. Someplace forgotten. Someplace nobody really goes to volunteer or study. Someplace awful and terrifying. This might be one of those be-careful-what-you-wish-for sorts … Continue reading

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108 – embouchure

I have this tendency, when I come back to Colorado, to remember that I loved playing music, even if I didn’t miss it while at school (see: last December). I think this is the first time I’ve consciously missed playing … Continue reading

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104 – This is an old one:

Moving They used to be strangers who pushed a cart that held eight months of me like that stroller stored next to the cart I’m sitting in , returning home to home

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092 – free-write reflections

Today I wake up intent on writing 250 words about the womb, or a basement, a cave. In some ways they are all very much the same. And I turn on a record (M. Ward: Hold Time, which I fell … Continue reading

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084 – I knew we were officially friends when you pointed straight at me and offered me a condom.

I could be a pot smoker “sometimes–not a stoner, but I think maybe you’d do it every once in awhile just for the experience” and “probably not Catholic, because you swear a lot.” I stay out late every night, disappear … Continue reading

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082 – The Beginning of Death

NOTE [20090601] – The first day we woke up in Swinomish they were having a funeral. The entire reservation essentially shut down, and so many people processed on foot to the colorful graveyard. Death turned out to be a strong … Continue reading

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080 – salmon, fry bread. korean chink tito.

I flipped to this one randomly. It’s a section in the middle of a day’s writing (20090325 I think?), and indeed the little divider above it says, as I have portrayed below… unresolve ~//~ One thing that interests me is … Continue reading

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