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How to Make Medicine
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Reflections on Grief and Loss
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What Grief Taught Me
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Dead Children Are Worthy of Our Prayers
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The Terms of Displacement
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Your Boots Are Too Big For My Feet
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Spinning in August
For my Christopher who left us December 19, 2020.
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The Political Act of Being A Mermaid
On surviving cultural and political assimilation and displacement
A Game of Jacks
The nostalgia and complications of girlhood and the journey into womanhood.
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Your Boots Are Too Big For My Feet
Your Boots Are Too Big For My Feet is one of four poems that I wrote and are all featured in the gallery book for the Iowa-based artist b.
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Born in the Air
A poem about being born during historical moments of change and unrest
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An Evening Poem
The simple act of observing a sunset
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We Are All That We Need
A Reaction Poem to the b. Robert Moore Painting - Should've Kept My Family Closer
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Teresa Zilk
Talking Good
In this space, I’ll write about the people, places, and learnings that have helped to shape me and my journey here in Iowa.
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