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international woman.
March 8, 2022
za Sofiju
ghost kitchen
March 3, 2022
i'm hungry
salome
February 28, 2022
It was the last year I was there, and probably the hardest - this was before I knew I was going home. I was in the roughest shape I can remember being in:...
in my father's house there are many mansions
February 27, 2022
and one of them is my body
yeehaw
February 22, 2022
brought up or dragged up, here I am anyways
pluck
February 16, 2022
The strings of a harpsichord are plucked, not hit, or strummed and that is what makes each note separate from the others, this is why there is no diminuendo,...
bread
February 13, 2022
She dropped a stone, maybe more in the month before the wedding, and everyone wanted to know how. I gave up bread, it was easy, I hardly miss it. Rice was...
body
February 8, 2022
At the start of the year, when my insurance is plush and full, I like to try to go at least once a month. He’s a big man, and the first time it was...
o cebreiro
February 7, 2022
today I caught this butterfly for you.
baize
February 3, 2022
last time pays for all baby, promise
calculus
January 28, 2022
the top left corner of The Ambassadors, Holbein. From The National Gallery, London I’m not an intellectual or an academic; my mind is too sideways for that....
nunc dimittis
January 21, 2022
here imagine a photo of everything lost or forgotten
crown vic
January 18, 2022
Named for that queen I suppose, regal with its back seat more like a couch, the car of choice for mean older sisters and suspect aunts, the kind who might...
photograph
January 14, 2022
pokojna moja baka, Milica Grandmothers on television were white haired, and kindly; mine survived an apocalypse which detonated in her for the next 70 years,...
buried
January 11, 2022
the prize hare, Masquerade - an armchair treasure hunt, 1979 Someone who knew my heart gave me this book when I was a small child, though I do not remember...
doléances
January 8, 2022
cahier de doléances, Bailliage de Saint-Omer, 1789. from Archives Departementales du Pas de Calais, France Everything happened at the speed of a horse making...
united
January 5, 2022
When he found out that we had both been in Barcelona that year when they won the cup he was beyond delighted, just like that I was his darling and it was...
dainty mug
January 2, 2022
this one is a bit personal
poulaines
December 30, 2021
selection of medieval shoes, Museum of London a glittery shoe, my own collection This style of shoe is now called a d’Orsay flat, the cutaway sides reveal...
Ćilim
December 29, 2021
Ćilim, uncredited google image search A ćilim is a kind of woven rug, made from wool. The word, like many others in the language is loaned from Turkish,...
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