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a secret
November 12, 2022
i hope everyone in this one has had an excellent nights sleep
happiness, like an egg
November 8, 2022
Like a perfectly cooked egg, the yolk just right, that slides out of the shell when peeled like the miracle of a minor saint. Here are four: a child is...
zemlja
October 29, 2022
i want the earth of my village to be my final home
i’m your bird
October 26, 2022
i have a little tornado in my heart and sometimes i feed it words and then a story is thrown out, like this one:
a fairytale
October 19, 2022
In the city was a mountain, and the mountain was sacred; it was said that if you climbed to the very top and spent the night, you would have a vision. Once,...
my fall wish
October 16, 2022
to be as bare as a tree in late autumn, to wear the thin light of November like a veil, or a bandage.
Populus balsamifera
October 11, 2022
Bees sometimes harvest the resin from balsam poplar and use it to disinfect their hives.
CAGE MATCH: Mary vs. Martha
October 11, 2022
two sisters enter, one daughter leaves
mjesec
September 28, 2022
Tomorrow, that door in the centre of your brain (the one you like to joke is turning to glue) will open all the way. But it’s been opening anyway, first at...
kangir&iniq/ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ
September 24, 2022
from my sonnet phase yes i had one yes i am insufferable
my grandfather is a question mark
September 22, 2022
True genius is perhaps in looking at the same thing again and again and still managing to see something new, or seeing it in a different way. When my mother...
ctrl + alt + delete
September 12, 2022
Sometimes I think about negative space which is not nothing, but no thing. It is a presence of an absence, every subtraction and deletion from the world. Not...
the sea guards all her creatures
September 10, 2022
An oar is not an oar it’s a pivot; no water is being moved at all but a boat is being rotated. two oars on opposite sides acting simultaneously rotate the...
romance language
September 5, 2022
ça veut dire/esto quiere decir:
the daddy issue
September 4, 2022
who is this masked man?
houdini
September 1, 2022
This is the lowest I’ve felt maybe since everything started, I look at everything that lies ahead this year with real dread, and concern that I’m not going...
testa dura
August 30, 2022
i want it so it’s mine.
physics
August 26, 2022
Sound is a mechanical wave which is another way of saying it requires a medium to move through; it’s the transmission of energy from particle to particle,...
stung
August 24, 2022
whether you don’t want to or you don’t know how to want to it works out the same
elegy
August 20, 2022
the time will come when there is no memory of her, but the memory of a memory instead
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