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baby salome
February 2, 2024
today i wore my favourite stockings, the ones with glitter woven right into them. god i love a shiny thing, and it’s been ages since i showed you one. have a...
every little thing
January 30, 2024
i do returns to me in something else: the summer i left i drove to the lake daily to swim in a bikini for the first time in decades, my body neither perfect...
très riches heures V
January 21, 2024
providence is a january field, bent stalked, sky dull and heavy with snow ready to fall in chords. the sun a pale blear. providence in what the birds take,...
last post
January 17, 2024
hello all, i’ve moved this to buttondown - i’ve brought your subscription with me, and will be moving all old posts from here soon too. please check spam...
magpie gleanings same great taste etc etc
January 16, 2024
hello beloved, i don't love this interface. i don't like starting over from scratch, though god knows it isn't the first time, and as far as that goes, less...
a falling knife has no handle
January 8, 2024
try and stop me from reaching out, anyway.
2 west, 44
December 29, 2023
NB: i will be migrating off this platform soon i fucking hate nazis
très riches heures IV
December 20, 2023
solstice
here in case
December 16, 2023
you need it: you will need it. come back whenever to find here tucked between this and that the deer that one time crashed through thick grass, brush and all...
sunday
December 10, 2023
i’m writing this to you before i nip out (i am always nipping out, it’s funny) to get some groceries and then i’m going to make a soup to bring to my mother...
the big book of amazing book of facts II
November 27, 2023
how does it feel to be almost brave?
très riches heures III
November 19, 2023
the month smooths out itself like a hand over a wrinkled cloth, and colours are subtracted one by one. the trees are bare, pale grasses whisper at their...
Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!
November 13, 2023
my aunt said, the tongue is the last thing to go, meaning that after the legs stop working, after the mind turns inward on itself, after all the other...
looking, seeing, noticing
November 12, 2023
1. the full sized bottles of shampoo and conditioner, prohibited, which i had packed carelessly in my carry on luggage only a couple of hours earlier set off...
baby steps
October 31, 2023
right now i am alive for my children who are growing so quickly and who will leave, and so soon! it’s normal, i don’t begrudge it, and when they are gone i...
based on a true story
October 29, 2023
in this one all the mothers are kind. they purchase beautiful coats from lord and taylor, they live harmlessly in chicago and wish you well. they wish you...
très riches heures II
October 24, 2023
the door of october opens to the eldritch light of all that has and might have been. your grandmother sings under her breath from a room you have just left...
from the big book of amazing book of facts
October 20, 2023
one spell which you can cast right now is the abracadabra where the word decreases like this abracadabra bracadabra racadabra acadabra cadabra adabra dabra...
vječnaja pamjat
October 15, 2023
this is dedicated to Dosta C. who left our world today. Memory eternal
non sum dignus
October 14, 2023
at the top of the hill is a church with great stone steps leading up to the front double doors. through the doors, a red plush carpet leads to the altar...
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