In the memory, you sit on a silver egg. It’s as round as you are tall, and your fur-lined shoe fits on one of its beige polka dots. Your hair’s black and
Category Archives: poetry
AFter a FAshion
I found you, after a fashion. I found the memory of a dragon who found you, sixteen years through witch school, less than half her way toward graduation (if it took
came to one end, one fury
Slip fire no tide was her name
hunting & in the astral
hunting ingredients I’d already gathered took half as long the second time though I did have to find another fish with eyeballs big
life force
the difference between a mortal and an immortal is, life force spells work on mortals so they can theoretically live forever by taking from other
10- night light
Sliptide forgot who I was and tried to claw me and melt me, so I put the plans on hold to watch myself enter the astral realm through the eye of a
9- Retrospect
In retrospect, the destruction of a planet lasts an instant. In the moment, the destruction occurs as a slow peeling apart of mountain from valley, as an unending barrage of raining
Read & die
Gather 2 wolfhead mushrooms. Gather 3 green pinecones. Gather a pinch of fern spores, 7 lichen-dusted pebbles, and moss water to stir everything
In gradients
Green dragons are immortal. Nights hunt dragons. I’m not a dragon or a dragonologist but I do
8- Gredients
Acid breath has no practical purpose for a hunting creature. Hunting supplies food for eating and acid corrodes what you’d eat. Fire breath, too, might scorch your meal just as easily as cook
Jordyn Saelor 