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XXX. The Overpass.
"The overpass knows its purpose:
to hold the instant taut,
a moment hung between moments
where thought crosses thought,
where the self meets the self
and one must give way."
Charlene Iris
Dec 4, 20251 min read


XXIX. A Girl, A Taxi, A City.
Always arriving, never settled, she travels the city streets in a taxi, tracing the blur of lights and lives, searching for belonging in a world that pays her no mind.
Charlene Iris
Nov 23, 20257 min read


XXVII. Etiquette For Erasure.
“I spent the morning destroying evidence” the world mistook it for care. What else have we perfected, besides vanishing beautifully?
Charlene Iris
Oct 20, 20251 min read


XXVI. Secondhand Fun.
In a stadium of light and noise, one fig tries to learn the language of joy. A meditation on performance, alienation, and the small tragedy of trying to belong.
Charlene Iris
Oct 6, 20254 min read


XXV. The Men Who Built the Sky.
"They didn’t save me. Not in the way that word is usually meant. But they gave me back the morning. A reason to pull the blinds. To let the light in."
Charlene Iris
Aug 7, 20255 min read


XXIII. To Old Friends, Part II: Love, Let Go.
A bouquet split in half. A bee whispers at the edge of goodbye. Petals fall into dinner, and still, she leaves gently, like something wild remembering how to bloom.
Charlene Iris
Jul 29, 20253 min read


XXI. I Am Not What You See.
To be watched is not the same as being seen.
A piece about visibility, misunderstanding, and the deliberate rebellion of withholding yourself.
Charlene Iris
Jul 23, 20253 min read


XVII. Time is Badly Made.
"There’s a bench with the arm broken off. The paint flakes like pages left in the sun. A pigeon nests underneath it like permanence could be proximity. And someone stands nearby: still fading, still here. Almost sitting. Almost gone"
Charlene Iris
Jul 10, 20252 min read


XI. The Velvet Dark.
"If the world bruises you blue, I’ll still be here. Tea warm. Light low. Quiet enough to hear you."
Charlene Iris
Jun 27, 20252 min read


X. A Hush That Hums.
I sip the hour. I taste the air.
Not every day glows, but most days hum.
This is a piece about those days.
Charlene Iris
Apr 13, 20251 min read
Musings
Wander through the dusk-lit rooms of SomEpiphany.
A living archive: the tender, the tangled, the mildly ridiculous. Fragments of life that insisted on being remembered.
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