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For the Great Blue Heron
I’ve heard it said the great blue heron is a sign of good luck As if she didn’t earn every moment of stillness through a lifetime of...
Holly Wright
Jan 25, 20241 min read
TOSKA
noun; Russian; roughly translates to “sadness” "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most...
Holly Wright
Jan 23, 20242 min read
September 2022
I wrote three lines last night when I woke up choking on my terror again again again The way I wake up every night, mid scream and have...
Holly Wright
Jan 21, 20242 min read
Origin//Oblivion, or: Liminal
“Origin” To rise. Everything has risen from stars, dust, hope. That man on the street, crashing to his knees with his bottle and his...
Holly Wright
Jul 30, 20201 min read
Infinitesimal
I imagine my life in the eyes of a god Fleeting Small Magic I watch infinity unfold in the seas and I see a god’s tears And I stare at...
Holly Wright
Jul 24, 20201 min read
The Nightmare
I’ve always felt half strangled. There’s smoke creeping under the door when I sleep and there are flames licking their way up every exit...
Holly Wright
Apr 11, 20201 min read
Pyro
A true pyro watches their art. Flames are a masterpiece. Flames are music notes, floating out on smoke and clinging to your clothes,...
Holly Wright
Apr 5, 20201 min read
First Time
I am fascinated by people and the way they live and breathe so effortlessly. I like to watch them dance— twirling dipping sinking inside...
Holly Wright
Feb 28, 20201 min read
Jigsaw Heart
Something inside of her was broken. A kite without a string. A bird without wings. A heart without a beat. Something inside of her...
Holly Wright
Jan 25, 20201 min read
O Icarus, of the Fearless Flight
Toward the burning sun, higher than they’d advise is wise, I fly. Caution, they say, not too high, you’ll only ever fall. But I only want...
Holly Wright
Jan 18, 20201 min read
Astral
I'm a wraith, floating through my life. I look in mirrors and can’t believe what I’m seeing. I haunt my own skin. My thoughts are real, I...
Holly Wright
Jan 10, 20201 min read
Countdown to the New Beginning
i'm seeing stars drowning in the ocean and rainbows tangled into nooses and burned out hope i'm seeing wishes floating away and never...
Holly Wright
Dec 27, 20191 min read
The Face of God
Sometimes I pray to God like if I don’t I’m going to die. My lungs will cease to breathe, my heart will fail to beat, my skeleton will...
Holly Wright
Dec 20, 20192 min read
A Letter to Eighteen-Year-Old Me
I know you’ll live. Despite the agony of him leaving. Despite the cut of his words. I know those things made you feel like you were...
Holly Wright
Nov 30, 20191 min read
Legacy
There’s a spot on the wall of my childhood bedroom. It’s not visible, but every time I passed it I could see you holding my sister there...
Holly Wright
Nov 10, 20192 min read
Innocence: A Question
I knew a man who lost his mind over swing sets and drank like he was trying to drown himself. I knew a woman who broke into a smile...
Holly Wright
Oct 13, 20192 min read
Winter
Someone told me once I remind them of winter Beautiful but cold harsh dark Breathing me in froze their lungs My skin made their...
Holly Wright
Oct 6, 20191 min read
Blue Period
I send my writing to a boy who’s better at playing at being anyone else than he actually is at being himself. I’ve done it for years. I...
Holly Wright
Sep 29, 20192 min read
Ships in the Night
My life has always been half looking down the barrel of the gun and waiting for the spark and half staring through the eye of the noose...
Holly Wright
Sep 21, 20191 min read
Mourning Birds
Why do we assume birds are singing? Maybe we’ve taken their agony for beauty. Maybe those lovely notes are cries of pain. All their...
Holly Wright
Sep 6, 20191 min read
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