The Book of Speculation
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Read between November 27 - November 30, 2020
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Hard thoughts are held in small words.
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Too much of my family has been lost to the haze of time and forgetting.
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Closing the door requires an abrupt tug, surprising it into shutting, another side effect of an aging house
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Sweat covers her, eating moonlight
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It’s hard to recover from disgust.
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You taint cards with your hope. You do not read future, you see wishes.”
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a soft presence, warm with sleep.
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She laughs; in another woman the sound would be sexual but in Enola it’s carnivorous.
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We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.
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New things make us young again.
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“Ever love something so much you start to think it’s yours?”
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The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”