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Bailey Merlin
Bailey Merlin
Jul 19, 20184 min read
Untethered
My father always told me to look to the stars to find my way home. That was true a long time ago, when he was younger, before the...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 18, 20181 min read
Poem #12
a long term cure for paronychia we linger on your hangnails, preparing to be chewed away. i want you to dip me headfirst into paraffin...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 18, 20186 min read
That Satchmo Sorrow
There is smoke. It has grown thicker over the last hour, invading my lungs and stinging my eyes. I take another hit and begin to cough....
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 17, 20188 min read
Dysphoria
Dez is not a morning person. I remind myself of the fact when I feel the urge to ruffle his hair. His snapping turtle role isn’t worth a...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 7, 20182 min read
The Summer of Yes, year 2
As many of you know, last year sent me careening into an entirely new mindset and lifestyle. Gone was the overly-prudent-and-homebody...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 5, 20187 min read
The Bond House: Those Summertime Feelings
Summer hitting us hard, at last January lingered on for about six months. Now, all of a sudden, we’re over halfway through the year. The...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Poem #11
June 12, 2008 It’s mosquitos swarming and the screen door slapping against the hickory frame as my body is stretching out of girlhood ...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 7, 20184 min read
The Bond House: We Go Full-Gatsby
Precious. In the bleak midwinter, we sat around the kitchen table and talked about Claudia’s upcoming birthday. Michael and I strove to...
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Bailey Merlin
May 6, 20181 min read
Poem #10
Hermit Crab Hermetism There’s something in your sleeping breath that reminds me of a hermit crab gathering its courage to find a home...
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Bailey Merlin
Apr 30, 20185 min read
The Bond House: Biscotti in the Car
Blurry and, yet, we look great Sometimes it’s hard to believe that it was only four months ago that I moved into a house with Craigslist...
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Bailey Merlin
Apr 13, 20185 min read
Waking Up At Last
Who would we be without our best friends? Had you asked me a month ago, I would have told you that I had been depressed for a few years....
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Bailey Merlin
Mar 30, 20184 min read
The Bond House: March Madness
Gideon, lost in snow As a poor, naive Southerner, I thought that we might see spring and put away our snow boots by the end of February....
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Bailey Merlin
Feb 26, 20184 min read
The Bond House: Breaking Bread
Celebrating “New Bonds” One of life’s great pleasures is sharing a meal with friends. There’s something to be said about a bowl of salad...
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Bailey Merlin
Feb 20, 20181 min read
Poem #9
Untethered The world is made of string, all held together, tangled, tripping though resting on quantum foam to make up quarks both...
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Bailey Merlin
Feb 10, 20185 min read
The Bond House: For the Love of My Roommates
When I was in college, I imagined that I would form friendships with a huge group of people, relationships I would effortlessly maintain...
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Bailey Merlin
Feb 1, 20184 min read
The Bond House: We Haven’t Been Murdered (Yet)
Mucha adjusting to his new circumstances with his typical malaise. I’ve been in Boston a few months now. I’ve survived my first real...
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Bailey Merlin
Jan 20, 20181 min read
Poem #8
Burn Wise Wood smoke cannot be contained, though persuaded to linger in the slope of your shoulder then visited by the keen talent of my...
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Bailey Merlin
Jan 2, 20182 min read
New Year’s Resolutions & Other Promises You Don’t Intend to Keep
We start the year with the best of intentions. But how could we not when we prime ourselves to fall in love with a new year? We throw...
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Bailey Merlin
Dec 17, 20174 min read
The 2017 Wrap
My new playground The end of the year is upon us (thank God), and I must admit that it has been the strangest 12 months of my life. I...
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Bailey Merlin
Dec 7, 20172 min read
12 Life Lessons Learned on the T
Coming into my third week of full-time Boston living, I must admit that I’ve learned a lot. Between coming to terms with the fact that...
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