If we grew up underwater, accustomed to salt in our cuts, would hurts to our emotions hurt less by comparison? With each reverbing thrum of all aquatic speech, would we feel the meaning of each other’s words closer to our ribs? In the twilight ocean, would we use our eyes less to guess each other’sContinue reading “Aquatic Speech”
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52 (4 years later)
It’s never so simple as a tower of cards crumbling like memories, good or bad divided by battle lines.
riven/rend
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What Happened to the Heart?
So I don’t usually do anything like write posts about music albums, but…I’ve been listening to this album multiple times a week since it was released in June, 2024 (see: I’m obsessed with it). And it feels incredibly important to, like, humanity. So I wanted to make a post about it. The music essentially asks,Continue reading “What Happened to the Heart?”
rednuht fo seohcE
But the cycle never stops, the kings and the apocalypses, the hearts and traitors and friends of raiders, do you hear it in the hills
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
22- I lied,
of course I did. I said I broke up my tyrant heart like a planet, like all the little bits of me (stomach, lungs, skin) warred
19- Doctor don’t care (about) [how to get rid of guilt]
Is my appearance why the patients gawk, Dr. Mizto asked, motioning to their torso. Yeah, probably, I said, but it’s not your middle that’s the issue
Pocket of Rage
Sorry, sorry, my bad, I don’t have the words for why. Make a mistake break a cake freak out and shout end the tear duct drought stab Gacks and slay racks, I’m so angry I could just cry the whole time.
3- born
I emerged from the school in a thunderstorm, surrounded by strangers banging pots and tins and wearing crinkly aluminum clothing. Of course the lightning struck them.
Jordyn Saelor 