Tag: prose
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To be Soft Is To Be Brave
“No one will ever know the violence it took to become this gentle” This was originally posted to the Paper Birds Instagram on July 16th: Some more stream of consciousness since people seem to be connecting with these more than I thought. This will also be a bit of an extension of my post from…
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A Piece of prose about living with ptsd in your early 20’s: “I’ve Never Been to Iceland”
Context Hey guys! Bit of a depressing prose I wrote last night but I wanted to share (trigger warning for mention of sexual assault). For a really long time I’ve wondered how to capture what life with PTSD is like, more specifically, how it feels to navigate in your 20s. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of…
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Run & Hide: A Poem on Depersonalization
The Poem Explained Run & Hide! is a poem about depersonalization I wrote back in 2020. “The box” is the verbiage I used to describe the ‘hidden’ trauma in my head, because that’s exactly what it felt like. I knew it was there, I knew the things attached to it, but I didn’t know fully…
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