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Words Might've Misshapened Me, Taylor Stafford

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis ( a collection of poems) examines the impermanence of relationships by way of romantic and platonic relationships, and familial relationships. In addition, the poems exhibit the process of healing that’s a result of these impermanent relationships which affect the self. Most importantly, the self that is explored within these poems and is layered in that through these entanglements, that I’ve experienced throughout my life, have created a wound inside of my flesh that presents itself as a Dragon. This Dragon is referred to as Dante. Even though there are poems throughout the collection that speak of Dante, not …