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Bodies, Memories, Ghosts, And Objects Or Telling A Memory, Natsumi Lynne Meyer Jan 2023

Bodies, Memories, Ghosts, And Objects Or Telling A Memory, Natsumi Lynne Meyer

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I think it started in December 2017, when my Mama sent me to Japan to take care of my grandparents, Baba and Jiji, alone. I had been to Japan almost every year since I was eleven years old, and several times before that too, but this was my first time without Mama. When Mama was there, Japan was filtered through her. I could poke bits of myself through her editing and approval. I could read street signs because of the way she read them, and I could understand my grandparents’ sighs from the timbre of her translation. That December, though, …


Trickling, Marissa Medley Dec 2016

Trickling, Marissa Medley

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A collection of poetry and other writings that explore family relationships with a focus on mental illness.