WILLIAM HAZEL
In the Middle
The fence shadows crept like ghosts back to graves and then it was the middle of the night. And then it was the middle of the month. I...
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William Hazel
WILLIAM HAZEL
- Sep 16
- 3 min
The Secret Weeks
September offers no immediacy. I am thankful for this truth. This year brings three clear weeks between the end and perceived end of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Aug 19
- 3 min
On the Far Side of Van Gogh
My body was covered in colors dull bright, a French countryside cottage built on my chest. And my love looked so lovely in an almond...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Summer Intention
The fog fell heavy, ghosting expectations for anything resembling sun or summer. The season’s first hours might have invited fresh...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 15
- 3 min
When the Tumor Took My Friend
When the tumor took my friend, I sat in silence for a long while before I cried. I had known her almost nine years, and she was my very...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Mar 18
- 2 min
In These Last Hours of Winter
Instead of the rush for spring, I choose to linger in these last hours of winter. In the splash-colored backdrop of daffodil and tulip...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Raising New Fences
We raised new fences and the backyard smells of fresh milled pine. We being an expression of the gathering of craftsmen and apprentices...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jan 22
- 3 min
The January Gym
The January gym reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jan 14
- 3 min
Resolution Run
and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
December Journal
Thoughts of family, belonging, and boundary The rain falls easy thick on the last day of December. I am warmed with coffee and the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 1, 2021
- 5 min
Trauma the Teacher - Three Life Lessons of Trauma
A tractor trailer changed everything. A split second in time when the truck’s wheels grazed the center line at the same moment my small...
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