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Blues Alchemy in Sinners: part 1
and other suppositions
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Olivia Keller
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June 2025

A Lifeline poem
Have you atoned? Who am I to ask you ask? I am your daughter.Engage in this
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Olivia Keller
Drafts from early February: Refusing to Feel Disorganized on the Master's Clock
I don’t know how I got here.
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Olivia Keller
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…
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Olivia Keller
"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
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Olivia Keller
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?
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Olivia Keller
Someone said I've been doing mixed-media projects
They're right. Listen in.
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2:11
Micro-macro love poem
Which I maybe do not write often
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Olivia Keller
In other words
Let's get straight to these poems
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A Disappearance of Stone, A Confluence of River Water
Words for cannonballs and Indigenous sovereignty
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Olivia Keller

May 2025

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