I’ve got on my writing socks—they’re Wonder Woman inspired, to infuse me with that extra moxie—and a cup of licorice tea from Chimene. Christmas lights winking by the window remind me that in two weeks this will all be over, and that taming and turning in this monster will energize me for the final push homeward. Godspeed fellow workmen!
my body remembers the late-nite habits of my early college days, when I drank deeply from 4:30 AM and sat on the floors of elevators and stairwells begetting papers. the past two years, I’ve been better — sleeping early, working smarter, but 50o miles later I am still the same.
my body returns to those young motions of deep gasp and hair scrubbed irritably in the sink this morning, thirty minutes late for class. i stood up, wrapped a towel around my hair and forced my heart to slow back to normal. no I’m-late adrenaline needed here; everyone needs a break sometimes.
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Phosphenes
noun. the stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes.
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Hieroglyphic of a person doing yoga in Ancient Kemet.
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Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a Greek god statue.
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All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my...
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