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Elizabeth Cotton
Apr 22, 20241 min read
I need a day off
To keep myself from breaking To get a break from tossing and turning To turn off my brain and stopping To stop making lists and planning...
Elizabeth Cotton
Apr 2, 20241 min read
perspective
head arched back my hair grows out the earth I peer at the world upside down even the crowd of skyscrapers look no taller than the grass...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 17, 20241 min read
the moon rabbit
when I looked up at the moon when I was smaller and considerably more Korean I saw the moon rabbit making rice cakes, mortar and pestle...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 31, 20241 min read
Uncertain Spring
It was an uncertain Spring And in just two weeks we went from Bits of pixel and soundbytes To walking hand in hand toward the beach, To a...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 28, 20241 min read
Tell us about 2020
It was something like March 129th When I was in my late twenties And working even later nights All the conversations were about This new...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 26, 20241 min read
June 2020
There is a public crisis But personally, not so bad A national nightmare But to me, a pleasant dream You said to me However much you...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 21, 20241 min read
Jesuits
It was a hot night but from my balcony I watched the black silhouettes of trees dancing softly and my heart was full and like the...
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