: About Me

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

journalism

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I wanted to if I wanted it badly enough

My childhood ambition ...

to be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

Being in Berlin in 1989, when the wall came down

Why I write ...

to make sense of my world

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Khaled Hosseini, Willa Cather, Clive Owen, Cate Blanchett, John Mayer, Bob Dylan

My first job ...

babysitting

My best moment ...

is yet to come

My inspiration ...

is in living

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Separation

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Gazing at the stars Four months ago, an archaeologist found In Egypt, a mummy's body, four thousand years old, Buried among his caretakers, surrounded By artifacts unknown in Egypt at that time. The body was eight feet tall, a giant Compared to his four-foot-high servants, With a wide, tongueless mouth, no ears, no nose. Nearby was a metallic suit with remnants of a flexible hose. They found it inside a burial chamber burned from Solid rock, forged by an unknown process, cut As smooth as polished marble and ornately carved. They found a shiny, round silver disc With strange writings, and m...

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