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Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

Pioneer Square Vignette № 4.

A wealthy White neighbor made a derogatory remark about homeless people a couple of years ago and I’ve never gotten over it. So here I go….

Apr 26, 2022

Pioneer Square Vignette № 4.

Apr 26, 2022

Callie Neylan

Pioneer Square Vignette № 3.

While walking Friedrich, Will and I saw a woman in distress fall in a crosswalk and stopped to help her. Monday April 11, 2022.

Apr 19, 2022

Pioneer Square Vignette № 3.

Apr 19, 2022

Callie Neylan

Pioneer Square Vignette № 2.

I decided to go out for lunch one day last week instead of holing up in the loft. Wednesday April 6, 2022.

Apr 10, 2022

Apr 10, 2022

Callie Neylan

Pioneer Square Vignette № 1.

On our way home on the 24 after foraging nettles in Discovery Park. April 3, 2022 at around 7:00 p.m.

Apr 4, 2022

Pioneer Square Vignette № 1.

Apr 4, 2022

Callie Neylan

If I Were Ukrainian.

Bourbon passed my lips and warmed my chest as I looked down across the Emerald City at night and wondered what I would see if this were not…

Apr 3, 2022

Looking north up Second Avenue from the top of Smith Tower. March 11, 2022. Photo by Callie Neylan.

Apr 3, 2022

Callie Neylan

Helping Gavin.

Saturday February 19, 2022 at 4:52 p.m. Downtown Seattle at the corner of 4th and Marion.

Mar 6, 2022

Helping Gavin.

Mar 6, 2022

Callie Neylan

Slouching towards madmen.

Two male bodies moving in unison up and down, one of them half naked: it felt almost like walking in on a rape. I felt embarrassed, then…

Feb 20, 2022

Slouching towards madmen.

Feb 20, 2022

Callie Neylan

Shorebird song.

Shorebird, pick me an oyster on the rocky coast. Find me a mollusk. Kick me some sand. Orange bill jutting from a charcoal head like a…

Jan 29, 2021

Jan 29, 2021

Callie Neylan

America the Beautiful, America the Abuser, America the Abused.

On Wednesday, America tried to leave her abuser. While I watched our national horror unfold, I felt triggered. Triggered because I have…

Jan 9, 2021

America the Beautiful, America the Abuser, America the Abused.

Jan 9, 2021

Callie Neylan

Seventeen Years

The floor was warped but he tried to fix it. He was always fixing things for me. Kneeling over a hole in the floor, squatting next to a…

Sep 7, 2020

Seventeen Years

Sep 7, 2020

Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

Emoting, frustrated human. Two sourdough starters in fridge. I don’t write nearly as much as I want to. / @neylano

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