🤍 poem out in @SundogLit’s issue 27 very grateful to the editors for placing this poem in a home among wonderful works from other writers :)

Charles Wright

There is only one queen

Anne Sexton's "Buying the Whore." What a poem!

Do you think Zohran Mamdani listens to Geese

Zohran Mamdani saying in his victory speech “While you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” and the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me, at least.

no notes 10/10 julia jacklin you are so dear to me

fascinated by guy who said his favourite films include Baby Driver, Eyes Wide Shut, and Ran

realising i spelt sometimes wrong in the first tweet, it's okay i forgive myself sigh

people can "haha feet lyrics," but i think it captures the type of love that gets you moving/ be less unwell because you know someone wants you to be happy even more than you do

make me think of that time i was walking around bangkok at night with my friends, the streets wet with music and light from neon signs. i was drunk and dancing on a foreign street, and so unhappy with the emptiness lodged where joy is supposed to be

The self-depricating joke admitting that you are not even capable of giving someone the banal stimulation of the flesh. michelle zauner sick for this

heard this one live yesterday. yes i might trample your pearls underfoot; i have not known shiny and delicate things

is my mind a bunch of lyrics haphazardly glued together? somestimes - an ongoing thread

truly no regret as heavy as never having attended schools of ornithologists

Hereditary (2018) / Past Lives (2023)

Feeling like I am not capable to have any capacity of romantic love. Thai green curry.

Louise Glück, ‘I think now it is better to love no one / than to love you’ — what a line.

somersault spring, psychosis summer, sertraline fall. semi-normal winter next?

so true

It was blacker than olives the night I left. - Anne Carson, “On Rain”