nature – Page 3 – Jordyn Saelor

Percy

Passionate Percy, have mercy on this mortal, for terror and evil have they known.

arm of mercy

I don’t know what they called the building in the middle of nowhere so I’ll just describe it. In the falling twilight, the walls looked like storm clouds squished into huge blocks and stacked

stronghold

In the story books I read at home, the captured maiden was always blindfolded or asleep and never knew where her captors took her until

embrace

They wrapped me in branches, bark as rough as stale bread, and carried me kicking and screaming, still invisible

stew

The first salamander I accidentally stepped on squelched and blood dribbled out and I hurried on. The second I stepped on

previous part: https://jordynsaelor.com/2025/10/03/hunger-of-the-things/ all parts: https://jordynsaelor.com/cant-catch-me-now/ *** “It burns!” the upper blanket squealed. “Run!” the middle blanket cried. “Clargor fristhimnba–” the lower blanket hissed, then they all vanished from my back so I could see everything. The trees moved. Roots thrust up from the ground to stab back down and pull their trunks through theContinue reading “squeal of the things”

dear dystopia of it all

I don’t break all at once, I erode into dust, sands of insanity carve sandstone sculptures (oh so pretty), dear dysmorphia,

Silence of the things

Eyes watched us from the sparse trees, belonging to bodies too still to distinguish from the dappled shadows

Every Seed/a World

My body is an earth of liquid with its oceans rising, the cool detachment apathy is melting

frag

The tips of my toes drown in the bathtub do you think hawks get lonely, when their main relationship is predator eats prey? a hawk, a pigeon, and a hummingbird flock into a bar my roommate’s getting on my nerves, taking out her day job on me if this book flops, what’ve I got toContinue reading “frag”