<![CDATA[Stories by Anna West on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@eszeos?source=rss-e60fd57fee8b------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*KbOuQ86bCcGVDPBdYA-Fhg.jpeg Stories by Anna West on Medium https://medium.com/@eszeos?source=rss-e60fd57fee8b------2 Medium Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:38:52 GMT <![CDATA[The Creek]]>

An essay

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A poem

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A poem

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I stopped and listened to the silence, heard the silence, the noisy silence I heard the worlds within worlds, the noisy chatter of a…

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I was watching a gothic tableau play out from the corner of a hospital room. A pale girl lay on the bed below. Dark hair on white pillows…

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I never knew your name. I don’t need to know it to remember, your wild heart branded my soul.

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I put a pomegranate in his hands. His hands once strong and brown, long fingered, now rested empty of life.

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One hot, late summer afternoon, three children playing down by the river thought they saw some frayed, sun-bleached cloth caught in the…

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night, silent, breathing the sound of light touching earth kissing her sweetly silence caressing silence bringing forth its sound of love

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the lucky country blackened, burned, devastated yet, in blackened soil radiant life reaches, blooms and with hope will thrive again

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