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Things I Wrote When You Weren’t Paying Attention is a collection of poetry I began writing in 2016, often while in the company of men who liked my presence more than my depth. The words in these poems weave flits of fantasy, fragments of attention, moments of longing, and the quiet reckonings of a woman refusing to be unseen. They live in the spaces between conversation and observation, desire and reflection, capturing what I noticed, what I felt, and what I held when no one else was watching.

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I sit

drinking my tea
my thoughts meander back into
 
you kissing my shoulder
my collar bone
 
you drawing my side
my ribs down
to the protrusion of my hip 
with such precision 
one would think
 
you’ve studied me before

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