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She & Me
It's been months
since she and me have been together—my heart misses her.
I am so happy to be near to her
—as she is happy to be with me.
It has been too long,
too much to be away from her already,
but then I see,
I see she is meant to be away from me.
It's so the missing is sweeter.
It’s so the reunions are deep.
We walk together on bright days
—when the fall wind comes seeping in.
The chill in the air isn’t a death knell.
The trees, they cannot stay green anymore
—they want to fade.
We walk silently through them
as the wind rustles the leaves more.
There is nothing we can say to each other.
Nothing left to improve things.
There is the longing in the miss,
and the missing in the longing.
Let that open today.
—
August 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Get full access to The MorningPoems Podcast + Morning Poems by Tess McCarthy at tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe
The MorningPoems Podcast Full Circle
After much deliberation, I decided to take control of my previously published poems that I had on Facebook & Instagram. At the time I enlisted the help of Aina (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ainaklima) to help me catalog my work.
You’d think someone like me—a former archivist & librarian—would be able to wield their own poetry collection around but it's daunting to organize one’s own work. The sane thing to do is enlist help. It creates distance and that distance creates the right amount of detachment to edit on your own.
I do recommend hiring editors and auxiliary staff to help manage intellectual property.
Any-the-how…
Upon delivery, I couldn't resist doing something with the over 780 poems propped up on a spreadsheet for me to ogle.
Moreover, content platforms like Meta own the rights to use (unlimited usage rights) your work for their benefit.
Last June I read “Poor Doggie” (2015) aloud:
🐕https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/p/morningpoem-319
I began Season 1, Episode 1 with my dog. And, Season 2 is arching on the heels of spending time with my dog.
I'll be moonwalking back to May 2021 for S.2, E.1—and, I can't wait to release it because it's about my late father.
Recently, I got a mixer and finally hooked up my Rode mic with the help of a friend who does mixing & recording for a living. I’m lucky for that.
Here is the bookmark to this mini-episode. Take a listen—
🎧: https://open.substack.com/pub/tessmccarthy/p/me-and-she
Get full access to The MorningPoems Podcast + Morning Poems by Tess McCarthy at tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe
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By T. McCarthy. She/theyShe & Me
It's been months
since she and me have been together—my heart misses her.
I am so happy to be near to her
—as she is happy to be with me.
It has been too long,
too much to be away from her already,
but then I see,
I see she is meant to be away from me.
It's so the missing is sweeter.
It’s so the reunions are deep.
We walk together on bright days
—when the fall wind comes seeping in.
The chill in the air isn’t a death knell.
The trees, they cannot stay green anymore
—they want to fade.
We walk silently through them
as the wind rustles the leaves more.
There is nothing we can say to each other.
Nothing left to improve things.
There is the longing in the miss,
and the missing in the longing.
Let that open today.
—
August 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Get full access to The MorningPoems Podcast + Morning Poems by Tess McCarthy at tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe
The MorningPoems Podcast Full Circle
After much deliberation, I decided to take control of my previously published poems that I had on Facebook & Instagram. At the time I enlisted the help of Aina (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ainaklima) to help me catalog my work.
You’d think someone like me—a former archivist & librarian—would be able to wield their own poetry collection around but it's daunting to organize one’s own work. The sane thing to do is enlist help. It creates distance and that distance creates the right amount of detachment to edit on your own.
I do recommend hiring editors and auxiliary staff to help manage intellectual property.
Any-the-how…
Upon delivery, I couldn't resist doing something with the over 780 poems propped up on a spreadsheet for me to ogle.
Moreover, content platforms like Meta own the rights to use (unlimited usage rights) your work for their benefit.
Last June I read “Poor Doggie” (2015) aloud:
🐕https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/p/morningpoem-319
I began Season 1, Episode 1 with my dog. And, Season 2 is arching on the heels of spending time with my dog.
I'll be moonwalking back to May 2021 for S.2, E.1—and, I can't wait to release it because it's about my late father.
Recently, I got a mixer and finally hooked up my Rode mic with the help of a friend who does mixing & recording for a living. I’m lucky for that.
Here is the bookmark to this mini-episode. Take a listen—
🎧: https://open.substack.com/pub/tessmccarthy/p/me-and-she
Get full access to The MorningPoems Podcast + Morning Poems by Tess McCarthy at tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe