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Blues Alchemy in Sinners: part 1
and other suppositions
Jul 4
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Olivia Keller
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12:07
June 2025
A Lifeline poem
Have you atoned? Who am I to ask you ask? I am your daughter.Engage in this
Jun 17
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Olivia Keller
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A Lifeline poem
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Drafts from early February: Refusing to Feel Disorganized on the Master's Clock
I don’t know how I got here.
Jun 12
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Olivia Keller
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Drafts from early February: Refusing to Feel Disorganized on the Master's Clock
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This absurdity that we live in our Black bodies. Can it have a place to go other than our bodies? It is too much for the body. It must have…
Rice on the table And a pile o peas How many, tell me, how many Has Satchmo eat? I’ll give you a sum Or I’ll give you some plenty Tell me, how much…
Jun 11
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Olivia Keller
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This absurdity that we live in our Black bodies. Can it have a place to go other than our bodies? It is too much for the body. It must have another place.
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"Communal Organs & The Internal World of Girls," a substack novel and a multi-media call-and-response
It's up to us to imagine what that looks like
Jun 10
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Olivia Keller
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"Communal Organs & The Internal World of Girls," a substack novel and a multi-media call-and-response
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When a storyteller wails, who’s there to catch her drift?
A selection of partial poems and quotes: Connect the dots for me, won't you?
Jun 9
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Olivia Keller
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When a storyteller wails, who’s there to catch her drift?
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Someone said I've been doing mixed-media projects
They're right. Listen in.
Jun 8
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2:11
Micro-macro love poem
Which I maybe do not write often
Jun 8
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Olivia Keller
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Micro-macro love poem
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In other words
Let's get straight to these poems
Jun 3
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Olivia Keller
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A Disappearance of Stone, A Confluence of River Water
Words for cannonballs and Indigenous sovereignty
Jun 1
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Olivia Keller
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A Disappearance of Stone, A Confluence of River Water
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May 2025
what they did to kiesha, they did to me
On Black Girlhood, Netflix's Forever, and the Myth of the Perfect Victim. This will contain spoilers.
Published on The Soul Work Newsletter
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May 21
Unfinished Pieces Searching for Home
Sometimes I let go of finishing a piece, making it make sense, or fitting it into a wider narrative.
May 18
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Olivia Keller
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