In Retrospect
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a decade in poetry;
The lives that we live in each moment, each year, each decade. Divided into sections, this collection of poems are confessional and reflective as the speaker weaves through the first decade of adulthood. She learns that everything is clear, in retrospect.
SECTION 1: THE RISE -- purity, naivety, unabashed love.
SECTION 2: THE FALL -- learning the hard truth
SECTION 3: IMPACT -- the injury from the fall
SECTION 4: STAGNATE -- loneliness, depression, stuck in the mud
SECTION 5: RELEASE -- acceptance
SECTION 6: THE RISE: PART TWO -- love in it's truest form
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