Joy Sullivan, "State of Emergency", Instructions for Traveling West

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"We never guessed how much we'd miss the hot and sticky hugs and standing close enough to whisper. Glory of reach and grasp, nudge, nuzzle, spoon and squeeze.

I've heard the phenomenon is called skin starvation and it's the reason infants are laid naked on their mothers' breast the moment after birth. Because touch is how we greet one another in almost every language and say: you are here and I am with you and we are not alone.

I confess I've not yet learned how to translate the gorgeous shock of seeing you. Even from 6 feet, I wonder if you can feel the electricity of my skin, pining in its sweat song, so helpless and hungry: hello hello hello."

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Mary Oliver, from “From the Book of Time”, Devotions

greetings from…

Why did you grow 1 millimeter in my bathroom.

There should be flowers by J. Jennifer Espinoza

when youre talking to someone and you can tell theyre a sex baby and not a stork baby

Goodbye Surfing, Hello God by Jules Siegel (1966)

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Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God

Indigenous Language Families of North America

Two ladybirds having a shag that i edited cbat over