melancholy

paragraph

Are your lungs / full enough to shout / across this void

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:September 29, 2026

transmission

NOW featuring / 2 speed engine:

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:September 15, 2026

tolerance

Use leads to used-to / in all senses / and eventually, in all tenses

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:May 12, 2026

envy

You don’t look so good / Tell me about it? / I won’t fix / I want to

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:May 5, 2026

layover

The cocoon calls / Warm and safe / and familiar

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:April 28, 2026

misreckoning

You think it was a regular thing / You remember it being a tradition

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:April 7, 2026

relic

On the front of the garage / above a wall that was a door / is a metal loop / screwed to crumbling melamine

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:January 27, 2026

fixer-upper

Barbie Dream House on the curb

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:January 20, 2026

support

Some times / aren’t / Some days / don’t

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:December 2, 2025

costume

When I say: 
I want to be something else

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:May 27, 2025