Facing the Abyss

Getting a little sultry with this month's Symposium piece

Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

Hello friends,

Can you believe this? I’m sharing my Soaring Twenties Social Club Symposium piece early in the month again! I’m on a roll. Granted, I wrote this poem many years ago, but I haven’t published it here yet. Let’s not think about it too much. Here’s my entry for Romance.

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I am the ocean you do not know.

They didn’t teach you 
about me in school because
they do not know I exist.

I am uncharted territory.

I will swallow you whole
and smile
as you sink below
my surface, mapping 
the ridges and valleys
of my depths.

I’ll show you things you never knew,
because you didn’t know where to look.

I’ll guide you to another planet, another time,
and as you float within me, I will sigh,
content, knowing
it’s not the world that you desire,
but me.

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Weekend Potpourri

• Currently on repeat:

• I love when Abigail Ervin Penner draws things. Here she is illustrating what it feels like to be hopeful but also choked with crippling anxiety.

• Here’s to all the mothers out there