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Birdie

There and here

Launched a year ago

Two poems for Robb

I visited with my grandfather in the last few days of his life

May 30 • Birdie


A theory on what comes after

I try to explain it in the living room, moving my hands like I am creating the energy that expands out from our bodies in reverberations as I tell Marie…

May 5 • Birdie


City Spring

A brisk walk to the 93.

Apr 1 • Birdie


Radioactive Fog Poem

poem

Dec 24, 2025 • Birdie


I'm sorry for scaring you

old poem from summer

Dec 13, 2025 • Birdie



Dream #1

I woke from a dream and began writing.

Dec 13, 2025 • Birdie


humming song

My grandmother is dying. She loves to hum. She also loves me.

Nov 21, 2025 • Birdie


Glitter

Fiction // short story about the mysteries we invent to feel sparkly and seen

Sep 27, 2025 • Birdie


Amidst You

prose poem I wrote for someone I care about

Sep 15, 2025 • Birdie


how to describe new york city

a poem

Sep 3, 2025 • Birdie


The waves

dedicated to virginia woolf

Jul 31, 2025 • Birdie


I worry about the sky

musings on grief and crisis and being of the universe and also of more human things

Jul 24, 2025 • Birdie


Girl Shedding

shame and reckoning and trying to clean up that which is designed to be ephemeral anyway

Jul 14, 2025 • Birdie


Astral Projection

When I was nine I astral projected and prayed to God every night to let me do it again