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Tien Skye

1 min readMay 24, 2018

If I bare my heart like a message board,
am I emptying myself or filling you up?

Written by Tien Skye

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has a bad habit of referring to himself in third person point of view...and he just did it again...

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Last published Nov 1, 2026

An art and photography publication focused on visual narrative in storytelling.

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Dennett

May 25, 2018

I love the connection of your poem, which is great by itself, to the photo, Tien Skye.

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