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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Dec 29, 2016

I Never Wrote About You

She is nine, standing on the edge of a lake, making a raft out of a large leaf and a half-blown-away dandelion…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Dec 22, 2016

How You’ll Remember Me

No one tells you when it will be the last time. And now, sitting here, staring out the window at all of winter’s trees…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Dec 15, 2016

Moon/Memory

I can never sleep soundly when there is a full moon outside of my window. I think that perhaps it is because I remember things that I…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Dec 8, 2016

For Him, Who Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

There’s an express train right behind this local train and no one seems to care. I know this…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Dec 1, 2016

Driving Into Places

It’s a confusing thing, returning home to a place where none of your furniture lives anymore.

Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Nov 24, 2016

Patterns

When I was small, I used to try to make sense of things by organizing, labeling, and stacking them.

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Nov 17, 2016

A Secret

I cannot quite put my finger on you. What makes you different. And why it is that I want to keep you a secret.

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Nov 3, 2016

Numb

They think that I feel things too much.
They think that I feel things too deeply.
They think that I fall in love too quickly.
They think that I rush…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Oct 27, 2016

Trailhead

If you could find the key to my heart, what would it look like?
It would look like a drop of water, the way that a beech leaf falls down to…

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Vaidehi Joshi in One Thousand Words

Oct 20, 2016

Lake Michigan

The water of Lake Michigan is so violent and stormy this morning that it makes me forget for a moment that I am not standing by the…