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Alyvia

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Ears bouncing with the body, timid eyes check to see if it is okay to love you.   Red-golden tea the mirror of a new spring blue, pierced by sun, drinking a cup of sky.   Inspired what is next and knowing to experience, but what adventure will come?   Ting of sidewalk chalk and … Continue reading

Alyvia

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A bloated parasite masticating flesh rot: pregnant with nameless death.   The growl of life-seizing machines – hiss, shiver, un- thinking (but knowing) death.   Carcasses on the win- dowpane, heads that beat a suicidal rhythm.   Hinging on the hope that good did not die with fail- ure. Whole disapproval.   Bees dutifully ga- … Continue reading

Alyvia

Coffee-Shop-O-Typing

The Student: Going to the coffee shop because refillable caffeine battles a night of study. The Student usually totes Apple technology and swathes the table with a tablecloth of school papers. The Businessman: Phone to the ear, face to the computer screen, heatedly criticizing the marketing department. The Retired Couple: Drinking their coffee – black. … Continue reading

Alyvia

Little Clones

It’s weird. When a group of individuals assembles and spends great amounts of time together, the individuality of each person takes a slight curve towards the individuality of the group. I start to use some of the same phrases you characteristically use, and you start to make facial expressions like I do. I start to … Continue reading

Alyvia

This Adventure

Everyone wants to go on an adventure. Adventures do not come in childproof, airtight, colorful packages; adventures are not one-size-fits-all. Like snowflakes and people and clouds and everything in this universe, no two adventures fit the same plaster mold. By definition (thank you, Merriam-Webster), there must be unknown risks, there is no predictability. I am … Continue reading

Tessa

A Place of Peace

Sometimes my heart visits places of peace and sanctuary where I find rest in the love of my Savior. Images race through my being… A walk through flowering valleys, flight above regal mountains, and a swim through liquid diamond waters. But when my eyes open and the real world comes into focus, the images, the … Continue reading