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Leah Scott-Kirby
Jun 14, 20201 min read
Words
Words never used to stick so suddenly or surely to the inside of my cheek. Words would carry heavy in my mouth, careful not to spill...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Jun 14, 20201 min read
Observations #1
Two pink lawn chairs. Graffiti: MLPK, sprayed on the side of an electrical box in bright blue. An overgrown front yard. A couple,...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Jun 14, 20201 min read
It’s fading.
I’m trying desperately to hold on, but it’s fading. I can’t put into words how much I wish it weren’t softening it’s hue against the...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Jun 14, 20201 min read
Am I Still?
Wily worries were once worn on the wool winter-coats of wanton western women. All along the Arlington arena, acrobats aviated eagerly to...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Jun 14, 20202 min read
Happiest
He seemed concerned, for the most part, maybe a bit annoyed. He asked, “What makes you happiest?” and I told him bicycling did, being...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
May 14, 20201 min read
Clouds
I think I’d be a fine cloud. I’d be a real fluffy one, with curling tips, swimming softly through turquoise skies. I’d be a tenderhearted...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
May 14, 20201 min read
Concentrated Things
Today feels like the ideal day to focus on concentrated things. Not the sugar-coated mountaintops, melting into syrupy sweet marmalade....
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Leah Scott-Kirby
May 14, 20201 min read
Marshland
My vision deteriorates, leaving me blind to even the coos of birds, playing hideaway in the marshlands. Words are such complex things,...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 202011 min read
Werewolves of London
So many vibrations, and faces, and names, and voices, and trash bags pecked to death by seagulls in the cramped, dark streets, lit up by...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20203 min read
Window
Passing the window are Giant Sequoia. I ache to reach out, brush my hand down their thick bodies. Their bark peels off more like a dogs...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20202 min read
Grime
There are moments when I find myself very “down in the dumps.” I’ll be really shoveling it up down there, you know? I’m just digging a...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Careful
So I avoid the cracks I step inside the squares, the rectangles, the slivers of triangles, the shapes without names. I bring myself into...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20202 min read
Woman
She stood with the face of a warrior, sharp and secure, but with a softness that reminded me of honey stirred into butter. The girl who,...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20203 min read
£3.50 Whisky
We passed the pub. We turned around, found the pub, pulled out our passports for the bouncer, walked into the alleyway leading to the...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Your words are balloons.
Small, rubber bags, inflated with air and then sealed at the neck. Empty.
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Sand
You’ve hollowed me out, filled me with sand. I feel every shift in every moment - grains passing one another as absently as you pass...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20205 min read
Severed Half
He’s sitting in the corner of my living room, in a beautiful wooden rocking chair, reading books under a dull, yellow lamp. He is...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Weekend
“We could always have another weekend together! Maybe this one coming up?“ They were lying on the grass, surrounded by tiny chirping...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 19, 20201 min read
Tomorrow
I will buy a match box, a candle, a magnifying glass The next day A gallon of water, a pregnancy test, a rug to pull the room together...
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Leah Scott-Kirby
Apr 19, 20201 min read
Violet Violet Violet
Your eyes whisper bold, violet hymns in my ears They speak the same color as your hair, your scarf, the felt pen in your violet hands,...
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