Author: EM Morgan

  • Aaron & Annie: A Short Story About Cutting Yourself Free

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    EM Morgan

    Tonight, I sat at my desk in the front bedroom, facing North Carolina Avenue. This busy southeast D.C. neighborhood somehow seems busier on autumn evenings. From my perch, the neighbor’s walk home from the Metro or Capitol Hill. And every once in a while, I laugh at the man I…

  • Winter Solstice

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    EM Morgan

    Winter Solstice On the longest,Darkest nightOf the year, theWarmth and lightOf hope will beBurning bright.-EM Morgan

  • Let’s be harmless to each other

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    EM Morgan

    “You and me? We’re different. We agree to be harmless to each other.”  – Abby Jimenez in Yours Truly If all the words I want to say to you, filled the rooms of this tiny home, they’d spill out of the windows and doors. They’d float like slips of paper…

  • Thaw my Heart

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    EM Morgan

    In the cold air that bites my skin, I’m reminded of the way the seasons match my heart – cold and lifeless now. I wait for the warmth of spring to thaw what loss has hardened. -EM

  • A Roller Coaster – A Poem of Love, Longing, Passion, and Futility

    A Roller Coaster – A Poem of Love, Longing, Passion, and Futility

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    EM Morgan

    Like a roller coaster . . . This is like a roller coaster.A wild ride of desire andAdmiration and love and frustration.I’ve never felt so crazy.For more of you.Crazy for you. Crazy to tell you howBadly I want you.How much I miss youWhen we don’t talk.I ride this rickety pieceOf…

  • Testing the Blog Feed

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    EM Morgan

    I seem to be having an issue with my blog feed now and it’s not immediately publishing. Posts are showing up hours and hours after the fact and I’m not receiving e-mails for my own blog. I’m attempting a fix. I’m getting more and more frustrated by wordpress…

  • Guilty as Sin?

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    EM Morgan

    Drowning in the Blue NileHe sent me ‘Downtown Lights’I hadn’t heard it in a whileMy boredom’s bone deepThis cage was once just fineAm I allowed to cry?I dream of cracking locksThrowing my life to the wolvesOr the ocean rocksCrashing into him tonightHe’s a paradoxI’m seeing visions, am I bad?Or mad?…

  • Restoration

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    EM Morgan

    On a cold morning As the ice melts  I’m reminded in the quiet Of the beauty that exists Unseen. Pulsing in the soil and  In the trees bare. Unseen for now, restoration Is coming. EM Morgan

  • Your Touch is a Reminder

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    EM Morgan

    Your touch was an instant  reminder of the longing and desire. A mix of happiness and melancholy has followed. There’s a thin line between hope and . . . maybe it’s  insanity. I am straddling this line, longing for your  touch and kiss. Longing  to have it and you whenever…

  • The End of the Eras Era – It’s Taylor’s Night, Swifties

    The End of the Eras Era – It’s Taylor’s Night, Swifties

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    EM Morgan

    Taylor Swift ends The Eras Tour tonight. Her opening act, Gracie Abrams, is on stage as we speak. I adore Gracie. Because she was a fan of Taylor first, her emotion tonight is just adding to the overall feeling us Swifties have about tonight. I had the intention of writing…