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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Ugly Beauty

I’ve been wondering lately about this recurring dream.

2 min readJun 29, 2022

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

The Mexican from Massachusetts

According to maternal lore, I was supposed to be a twin. My mother grew so fat when she was pregnant that her doctors thought perhaps there…

8 min readJul 29, 2021

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The Mexican from Massachusetts

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

All the things I want

I want to ask you all about the meeting. And how it went. And why you were gone for so long this year.

2 min readJun 21, 2022

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All the things I want

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Motherhood

The lights were bright on my face when they held you up above the stark, white sheet. So much bustling and moving around the room. Shiny…

2 min readApr 21, 2022

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Motherhood

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Homeless-man Jesus

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the homeless man I thought may have been Jesus. He would move, hunched forward, heavy with the weight…

3 min readApr 5, 2022

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Homeless-man Jesus

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Worship

Grandpa had a vase made of red clay that lay atop hard surfaces everywhere we moved. I used to think it contained the ashes of all my dead…

2 min readMar 26, 2022

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

The Pleiades

The view over the hilltop home was a farewell to day, Bright as a supernova: Resplendent orange bursting juice across the horizon. She was…

1 min readJan 13, 2022

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The Pleiades

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Prescience

The year my mom died, I would awaken, deep in the belly of the night, screaming. It was also the year my youngest son was having what they…

2 min readDec 17, 2021

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Prescience

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Kindness

My second son came into the world on a rainy day with “El Fuego” in his eyes and in his heart. You could almost see it reflecting off the…

2 min readNov 11, 2021

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Grace

The old woman is bamboo in a rushing river and drowning-

1 min readApr 3, 2021

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Grace

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Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson

Adrianne is an artist-educator whose writing explores her offbeat life; its traumas, victories, cultural ambiguities and the intersectionality of it all.

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