I want you in every season of me, at each height, at every breaking. You are my quiet, the one who...
By Royal Rhodes
Releasing Words’
Poetry
I handcrafted words without knowing them, slow words, slowing me down, until they spoke back and told me they were portals to the invisible, where I relived cast-off lives with those I talked to, learned from, yearned for, bedded, hated, hurt, and others I barely knew.
Handpicked
Ordinary Afternoons by Umer Ali
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