to what end this flowering abyss

to what end this flowering abyss

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an poem for memory and clamoring

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emily
Nov 13, 2025
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In that home a ghost of a woman who liked me but never knew me visited my five-year-old self

her slippers padded softly down the hall every home aches with its lifetimes and this one was

simmering with feijoada and the knife cut of New England autumn pressed leaves never

lose their color how can people and all of their histories possibly fit in o…

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