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Gas is expensive

About what?

If the city ever sleeps

The Telluride Post Card

The Healer

Welcome Home

Family Tree

The Going

You sound like the ocean

Between gullible and yearning there is me

Liquid Sand, Riddle Man

Ziggy

Enter an Ocean

Ambition

Salt.

Perfume

Vanilla

that’s the thing about poets

Good Year

Real

  • The Kind of Woman

    by Stephanie Alfaia February 25, 2024

    I am the kind of woman who is everything everywhere all at once like the…

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  • Generations of frightened children

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 12, 2023

    They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover,while it’s the safest way to know…

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  • Gas is expensive

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 9, 2023

    He says there’s truth in just – just sayingjust wonderingjust hoping chaos stopstasting as good as…

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  • About what?

    by Stephanie Alfaia February 12, 2023

    What would I write about back then  if I knew what I know now? Would…

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  • If the city ever sleeps

    by Stephanie Alfaia May 23, 2022

    I leave my home for anywherePack a bag of comfort and fly to a distant…

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  • Autopsy,

    by Stephanie Alfaia May 13, 2022

    inspired by The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The heart is fragile. If you’re…

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  • The Telluride Post Card

    by Stephanie Alfaia May 6, 2022

    Such intense eyes. The kind that greets you, entirely. The kind that notices any alteration…

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  • The Healer

    by Stephanie Alfaia April 2, 2022

    I will not write about you and your broken wings. The way your body limped…

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  • Welcome Home

    by Stephanie Alfaia April 28, 2021

    Please come in, Take a seat, she’ll be right down… – My grandmother says:“Lock the doorsand…

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  • Family Tree

    by Stephanie Alfaia April 27, 2021

    She looked up when she spoke of himevery vertebra in her spine perfectly stackedoneabovethe otheruntil…

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  • Yellow Flowers

    by Stephanie Alfaia March 13, 2021

    I used to walk down the hallway in robesthat felt like they came from a…

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  • The Going

    by Stephanie Alfaia March 13, 2021

    If there was no consequenceI would recreate the margarita: Substitute the juice of a whole…

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  • Vertigo

    by Stephanie Alfaia May 4, 2020

    The victorian mirror hanging in the waiting room pulled her body to a halt. She…

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  • You sound like the ocean

    by Stephanie Alfaia December 22, 2019

    Ocean speaksounds like a storm surge in a sea of undulationchoking in between the sentences…

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  • Between gullible and yearning there is me

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 2, 2019

    When am I gonna lose youtrickles out of her headphones and I laugh.I’ve become an…

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  • Elysian

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 2, 2019

    I only spent a short time glowing, dancing in his Garden of Elysianyou see, my…

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  • Is My Take-Out Ready?

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 2, 2019

    I met my soulmate on Memorial Day. And yet. I knew he would walk. His…

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  • Liquid Sand, Riddle Man

    by Stephanie Alfaia June 26, 2019

    History repeats itself back to the Age of Glassa frail world governed by fearwhere we…

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  • Ziggy

    by Stephanie Alfaia June 26, 2019

    I have been here before, I swear. Wearing this stubborn heart on my sleeve and…

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  • Enter an Ocean

    by Stephanie Alfaia May 28, 2019

    She traded dolls for the moon,the ambitious little girlable to grasp it with her tiny…

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  • Ambition

    by Stephanie Alfaia April 8, 2019

    What my mouth means when it opensis that I want to eat you whole To…

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  • The Sound of Foreshadowing

    by Stephanie Alfaia April 1, 2019

    It’s been almost a yearsince the song of birds danced in through my windows pausing at…

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  • Salt.

    by Stephanie Alfaia March 7, 2019

    I didn’t find answers. I rearrange the memories of Neverlandinto questions that still rest upon…

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  • Perfume

    by Stephanie Alfaia February 21, 2019

    Seu cheiro é intoxicanteI told him as we kissedIs that a good thing? He askedFuck yes,I…

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  • Vanilla

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 30, 2019

    “Vanilla” I sayConvinced it’s the flavor I always wanted.I slide my tongue around the ice…

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  • that’s the thing about poets

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 29, 2019

    His mouth wreathed in parenthesisrevives latent memories of Christmas morningMy palms bottle his scent and…

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  • Good Year

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    “And what would you like?” She asked. “I would like a lifetime spent with an…

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  • Living inside you

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    Among chaosI found a small opening in your nipple crouching, I peeked outfor space to…

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  • Poetry is

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    The creation of poetryis alchemicalunmeasurable, until it sparksto be poetry meansto see the world throughmusic…

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  • Real

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    If you’re looking for a daydreamsoft cotton candy love and sugar coated poiseshe with no…

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  • The cellar

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    A heart waits guarded in a celltold never to open the gatesto the outsideto wait…

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  • Play

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    He sits beside me as Ipress down softly on his pianoalternating between black and white…

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  • Once Upon a Time

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    I was shattered glassglued together to keepdroplets of red wine from escaping. I learned togethernessby…

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  • Detox

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    Yesterday was poured into the blendernostalgia like ripe strawberries in a green shakesweetness lifts the…

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  • Have you ever dug your own grave?

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    You die a little when the love of your life says you hurt him.when he…

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  • 25.

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    Now a quarter century.Now what?Now freedom is not wearing a bra.Now time flies.Now tell me…

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  • 21.

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    First, I cursed the heavens.No, first I asked Queen Mab why I couldn’t hear my…

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  • Self-Portrait

    by Stephanie Alfaia January 12, 2019

    I see myself in the shadows of an Abalonecompressed to a thousand grains that supportturquoise…

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  • The Power of Poetry

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 24, 2018

    When a poet falls in love with you they will see tones of Emerald Isle…

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About the Author

About the Author

Hi! My name is Stephanie Alfaia and I write poetry inspired by my travels. As a Brazilian American and citizen of the world, my goal is to inspire you as our planet has inspired me.

I'm an avid dreamer, a hopeless romantic and an occasional optimist who wanders the globe in search of lessons, connections and stories to tell. My work dances, twirls and skips between the lines of fiction and non-fiction as our minds and hearts do, embellishing upon our memories. Some characters are completely fictional while others, are locals who have inspired or helped me in my travels. Read through and see if you can decipher the enigmatic world of words! Thank you for stopping by.

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Popular Posts

  • 1

    Enter an Ocean

    May 28, 2019
  • 2

    Between gullible and yearning there is me

    August 2, 2019
  • 3

    Ambition

    April 8, 2019
  • 4

    Not All Traveled Grounds Run Smooth

    November 18, 2014
  • 5

    Family Tree

    April 27, 2021
  • 6

    that’s the thing about poets

    January 29, 2019
  • 7

    Is My Take-Out Ready?

    July 2, 2019
  • Furniture is nothing but a commodity 

    May 17, 2017
  • 9

    Perfume

    February 21, 2019
  • 10

    Ziggy

    June 26, 2019

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