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Purple: The color of longing, of the blood in your veins that your heart is pumping, butterflies and all.





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BITTER: A MAP

We tend to use the word “bitter” to denote taste, temperature, or feeling. Often, though not always, bitterness carries a negative charge, bringing us into proximity with a mostly undesirable set of feelings or experiences.


Two young women stand before a low concrete wall, their backs to the camera, looking out over a city skyline. The woman on the left wears a black long-sleeved shirt and a cream-colored skirt. The woman on the right wears a burgundy long-sleeved shirt and a black skirt. Both have long hair that is the same length and the same shade, and their strands blow in the wind.

The Vanishing

Maybe this is why people are obsessed with twins: they have a sense of loss, something missing, someone missing.


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Math Sestina

I can enumerate my body /
and it’s comforting, almost.


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Of Discord

All to the core you have me bitten, as if I’m the one to suffer from dysentery or rabies.