part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,Continue reading
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This I Believe: Balancing Beauty and Intelligence
I have never been a beautiful girl. I am pretty, perhaps, but nothing more. For a long time, I didn’t notice, because my lack of physical beauty made me no less striking to the peopleContinue reading
The Anatomy of a Loss
Last November, the final petal curled its softness into bone (and my mouth tasted bruised for weeks). Death has a name that sounds like silk sliding over the ground, but she is not so soft:Continue reading
Girl of Glass
They say a child can swim in the veins of a blue whale, that the vessels are just big enough for the slender body of a little girl. I would have fit perfectly, thin andContinue reading
Behind My Skin
There is something living inside of me. It blooms out from between my lips like a bouquet of diseased flowers I have kept pressed beneath my tongue for so long that my mouth has memorizedContinue reading
Angels’ Wings
I have learned: it is impossible to be both beautiful and strong. She is made of glass, you made her out of glass. But she never wanted to be made up of angles andContinue reading