egb ,
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I went to a Magical Realism Poetry Workshop today and I learned the 3 core components of magical realism:

  1. the magic happens in the real world
  2. the magic isn’t questioned and doesn’t perplex the characters
  3. it’s often used as a critique of a societal issue

Here’s the poem it inspired for me! Pretty proud of this one 🔮✨

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Thrift shopping The best thrift store in town is found through a revolving door at the base of a lilac tree. I went there today and bought a wicker basket that begs to be filled with rainwater and howls when it leaks. I spotted it on a shelf behind a bullet, a burning tower, and an unbraided money tree. My grandmother, the hummingbird, tapped twice on the storefront window and tossed a song through the glass that went like this: twinkle twinkle little light, I should've held you nice and tight, before you followed bramble dreams that tore you open at the seams. I pretended not to hear her. I took my time digging through rows of knick-knacks, an appellate court of subjective utility. Could I scrub the blood out of a used bandaid? Do I really need another forgone conclusion? Is $9.99 too steep a cost for a girl about my age twisted up in the vines of a velvet-leaf philodendron? I saw my own face in a broken mirror and wondered where it came from. Who gives the suicides a second love when they scrap their lives away? I think I could. I think I'd take them out for every summer storm and hold them while they howled.
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