a lump in the throat

smile lines and little legends

on living to tell the tale

Feb 17 • Mary Shelley

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January 2026

July 2025

a poem for peach season

"...the world will / go on. Or it won't. Still..."

Jul 21, 2025 • Mary Shelley

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May 2025

seminary poems (pt. 3)

"the great many of us simply want to love one another"

May 25, 2025 • Mary Shelley

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seminary poems (pt. 2)

for the people I'd recognize in a parallel universe

May 15, 2025 • Mary Shelley

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April 2025

seminary poems (pt. 1)

"I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame."

Apr 24, 2025 • Mary Shelley

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January 2025

on self-respect, shades of blue, & fig trees:

reflections on my twenty-fifth year

Jan 13, 2025 • Mary Shelley

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February 2024

to see with the eyes of childhood

on new year's day & resisting the capitalist gaze

Feb 25, 2024 • Mary Shelley

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August 2023

rumors of becoming run through your blood

on Rilke, existence, & rewriting

Aug 25, 2023 • Mary Shelley

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April 2023

homemaking in coming of age

on liminality & home

Apr 23, 2023 • Mary Shelley

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February 2023

'It is impossible to say just what I mean!'

on 'Prufrock' & poetry

Feb 19, 2023 • Mary Shelley

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