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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Build
Believe
Temple
Temples
Gods
Mirrors

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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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