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Travel

Spring Break is here!!!!!

Tomorrow I will be taking the first flight. The plane will stop in Arizona.

From there, we will land in Baltimore.

Then, we will take the train to DC.

I will then go back to Baltimore and fly to Dallas.

On the  returning flight, the plane stops in New Mexico.

And in Vegas!

And finally, nine days later and a lot poorer, I'll be back in Portland!

Just Exist

You ran into my burning structure
when the rest of the world
was running out. I don't love
heroes in uniform, but champions
of conversation with sentences
like Let's talk. Don't rescue me.
Exist.

Childhood

I remember myself in a greater

form with lesser height, when

catching butterflies and tad-pools 

was my day job and at night, sleep. 

Regret

This is to the same
feeling I felt as a child,
                            like
rain that was rejoiced
because something other
than my own dripping
confidence could slide
across my being.
                            like
Jonah trapped inside
a sea creature not for
three days
but years.
                           like
The remembrance of first
tasting shame: a bitter coffee
burning sweet taste buds.
                           like
Regret devoured
creativity and vomited
self disgust. I want to
dream of silence.