Words are one way in which we can create bridges toward each other and create these alphabetical band-aids to make us feel as though, okay I can get through this hour, I can get through this day…Language is going to save us, in every way.”

Aimee Herman-Durica 7/9/24 Aimee Herman-Durica 7/9/24

to belong

I feel like an interruption. Like a gnarly cough during an important meeting. One you try to hold in, swallow, but then it burns and it itches. It squirms until it screams its way out. That cough is me.

pixie dust

Three poets just trying to spread some Hydro Junk…