Maleah Pusz

Western North Carolina

About

once upon a time there was a very ordinary girl with a very extraordinary passion to see average people inspired to take freedom seriously. there are many freedoms this life guarantees: the freedom to dance, the freedom to think, the freedom to be honest, the freedom to explore many options, the freedom to connect and invest in people, the freedom to sing deliberately off-key.

how can i do this, she thought to herself. how can i share the life i've found?

easy.
just watch.

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Feb 4, 2009

Koi, Katie Ford

After all the days and nights we've spent
with Starry Messenger, with Dante,
with Plato, his temperance
painted as a woman who pours
water into a bowl but does not spill,
after particle theory and the geologic time of this quartz
gilded beneath the roaming gone,

Credo, Matthew Rohrer

I believe there is something else

entirely going on but no single
person can ever know it,
so we fall in love.

It could also be true that what we use
everyday to open cans was something
much nobler, that we'll never recognize.

I believe the woman sleeping beside me
doesn't care …

The Kiss, Stephen Dunn

She pressed her lips to mind.
--a typo

How many years I must have yearned
for someone's lips against mind.
Pheromones, newly born, were floating
between us. There was hardly any air.

She kissed me again, reaching that place
that sends messages to toes and fingertips,
then all …