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Reader's Room

The Ink Room

for the ones who write letters they will not send

Stacked pages. Old handwriting on the inside covers of borrowed books. The particular smell of a room where language has accumulated. Poems for longing, for memory, for the unsaid.

6 poems for this room
M·007 Navy Nights

Couple o' Thoughts

"I wish I was a bird, soaring through the clouds light and dark, unconstrained by the technicalities of the societal laws."

M·001 The Ordinary Archive

Steel Tumblers

"Worthy only for drinking basic water, but without which may lead to struggling at the life-death brink."

M·011 The Becoming Archive

She Called Me Her Own

"She isn't a city, she is a vast ocean of openness and belonging, taking us in one and all."

M·003 The Ordinary Archive

Wires

"Rudimentary and often neglected, yet so prime akin to unstoppable time — connects the world like experiences that connect lives."

M·005 The Becoming Archive

Choices

"The beauty of choice is that it's a double-edged sword — just like water, it helps us live and also decimates us."

M·002 The Ordinary Archive

Knives

"Life too is an abstract invisible knife that helps when used correctly and destructs when used imprudently."