happiness – Jordyn Saelor

30- Landscape of a Heart

I took up residence in a library (of course she did) and I took up writing (of course she did) but mostly I took up the chore these mountain dragons never bothered with

the thing is,

most sapient things I’ve found live this contradiction where they can’t be alone but being not-alone exposes them to all sorts of

how to do the thing

How do the fish people do the thing where they reach out and show somebody they care? Well, I pulled a Dr. Mizto

27- I did the thing

again, where I didn’t write in here for a lot of years, I forget how many exactly. And I did the thing where I turned some things into people (fish, this time,

into the roaring storm

so no you stupid fates just existing isn’t rewarded with happiness, I am a rainbow or water,

in these pages

All fates are the same, it seems: whether witch or demon, rabbit or tree, the tones just tell us to

25- so I wrote

so I wrote in here again not for a dead woman from witch school but because I wanted to, for me, and because a

through the air

happiness follows you through the air and sometimes strangers say you find what you’re looking for by not looking; things just

rose

Of course I’ve got my rose-colored glasses on—not having running water

tonight

You wouldn’t believe I left this collection of letters unwritten in for seven years. Because you didn’t have to wait that long