~ Voted 2016 Spillwords Author of the Year, Alyssa Brocker began writing during her freshman year of college. With the creative efforts of her theatre troupe, they produced an original

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April 2020 On my birthday, I will take my tea under the branches of a dying cherry tree. It has its scars, like I do, raw and still exposed. Ants

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Arts of the Ancient World             after Yeshe Tsogyal I. I run / into the art museum / a wild animal            standing in the shiny echo / white foyer            past