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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 8h

anyone who can render desire in sharp sentences is extremely my shit

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 8h

bookmarked !! 🙏

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 12h

i need to credit @mazzymaple.bsky.social for the lead…she was posting about this book on IG, which prompted my purchase 🙏🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 12h

that is a totally appropriate response

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 14h

i’m reading it so s l o w l y and savoring…

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 1d

If you ask me about love, I’ll show you late winter light on the farmland—some liminal thing…..
beautiful! @dinalrelles.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so much for this kindness & the careful reading, Eileen! 🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

Sudha!! thank you so much, love 🖤🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so much for spending time with it, Jennifer! means the world 🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so, so much for sharing this so generously, Timothy. grateful for your attention to my work 🖤🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

“…the beauty of things that are ending.” — Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

He didn’t say he would call. (In spite of myself, I think of my mother, the last time I saw her, in April ‘86. I said, “See you Sunday,” and she did not reply.) However, he did ask me if I was going to Salon due livre, meaning that we wouldn’t see each other before then.

And yet, and yet, what tenderness, the last time. But that’s just it: the last planned meetings have the beauty of things that are ending.

What if I were never to see him again, as with Claude G in the past? That is like death. I fear the worst (he’s leaving France, ditching me, etc.)

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

thank you, friend 🖤

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 1d

if you always wanted to know what it’s like to write in the dim glow of dawn alongside other ungodly masochists here’s your chance (free, no frills, donations support @writingco-lab.bksky.social) www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

East Coast Ungodly Writing Club early morning weekday write-in with Sara Lippmann
5:30-7:00 am EST, October 13th-24th
writingco-lab.com/classes

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Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute beauty from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

thank you, thank you, Avitus, for spending time with this & sharing it so generously 🖤🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so very much, Elizabeth! 🖤

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 3d

"I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)"

the longing in this excellent piece from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much for spending time with it, Ronita 🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

🖤🖤

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

🖤🖤, Sam

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Joyful Sage @joyfulsage.bsky.social · 3d

This is lovely.

“Maybe if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return”

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

thank you so much for this kind & close read, Joshua 🖤

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 3d

Be on the lookout for the supermoon 🌝 rising in the east!

It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.

Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

you write the images of my heart; thank you for seeing me & getting it, Thad 🖤

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

thank you so much for spending time with this & for sharing it, Lori 🖤

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