Ripley is sleepy after helping to decorate the Xmas tree 💤🌲

This is how it goes you bowing as your hand takes mine one step forward you smiling one part chivalrous two parts mischievous as the dance gets underway and me with my two left feet stepping sideways off the cliff as my heart soars #vss365 #chivalrous #poetry

The tiny egg was all that was left well except for the note Should the egg hatch it read do not overfeed the hatchling and do not mistake cuteness for tameness This is particularly relevant for people with soft hearts and no exoskeleton #vss365 #poetry #relevant

If every action has an equal and opposite reaction then somebody somewhere just placed a heart in a broken person’s chest and totally made their day #vss365 #poetry #action

At least this chonky little monster looks guilty about being caught on the feeder that is most definitely not supposed to be for the squirrels.

In a lush meadow on a distant world she runs fingers through alien grass and remembers bustling sidewalks looming deadlines and endless anxiety as she careened toward empty #goals until that fateful day she slipped and fell into an opportunity (or a transport ship) for a different life #vss365

You think that you’re so clever sneaking in through a loophole and hiding in plain sight but I’ve had your number for a while now and the hounds were released the moment you crossed my threshold #vss365 #poetry #number

Koji wants you to come out and play in the snow ❄️

everything you love everything you hate every place that holds a memory every law ever decreed every mistake every mystery every perfect thing is fleeting so hold on tight to the ones you love and stop wasting the fleeting time that you've been gifted on regret #vss365 #law #poetry

The geography of you is shifting sharp cliffs giving way to rolling hills shallow streams burbling into deep lakes with complex ecosystems and your hard ground morphing into moss so soft beneath my feet that I could linger here forever #vss365 #geography #poetry

If I could sum up us to fit neatly in a nutshell I couldn’t say that it’s been fun exactly but it has been educational How else could I have learned the full range of human emotions that were programmed into my heart or the vastly different definitions we held for each of them #vss365 #education

“If your heart is beating really strong and fast, and you’re in a fear state, you don’t want to be sensitive to pain. You want to be able to run over broken twigs and glass to escape the threat,” said neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel. www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-hea...

Ripley complaining to the management about why tea has to happen before walking.

I need I need to I need to press the key The one you cannot read The one you will not see The one you disbelieve defines you DO NOT TOUCH your eyes plead But the need creeps up my fingers Straining my restraint Your hands seize with hope #vss365 #creep

Happy almost Halloween! 🎃

She is standing in the maelstrom screaming fists balled at her side toes curled into the creeping thyme beneath her She is always here even when she's somewhere else There is comfort in the driving rain and in the way the wind carries her scream into the heart of the universe #vss365 #creep

When I found myself on a precipice of someone else’s making (your making) the terror was nearly suffocating Choosing between bad and worse (the only choices you left me) I closed my eyes and jumped #vss365 #terror #poetry

Lolsob

Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!

But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!

Don't normalize fascism.

There is a way to do this so it’s perfect: - boiling water - leaves from Yorkshire - a handful of runes - that art deco cup and saucer - and one sugar cube to ensure that her ghost makes it to your tea party #vss365 #saucer #poetry

Flowers for autumn 🍂🍁 #orangeflowers #autumnisthebest

Over in the corner my heart slides down the wall to land unceremoniously at your feet its rhythmic beauty reduced to so much unrecognizable pulp #vss365 #pulp #poetry

Who's a beautiful old man? (Koji is!)

See what we can do when we work together to fight Nazis. This is beautiful.

If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.

Ripley, ever hopeful that teenage visitors are here exclusively to shower her with love. #AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge

If the event horizon were nigh would the weight of knowing crush you into apathy and dust Or would it reinvigorate your passion to be caught in my gravity until the end of space and time #vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry

Why must you take home another boring rock they said Your assembly line is backed up Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions collecting dust just like all of us I hold it close Knowing they lie There is no die Proof pressed in my palm of a singular life #vss365 #poetry #extrusion

The crows came to roost on the day you were born no longer an extrusion of me but an entirety of you with all your complex parts— hands of an engineer heart of a crow soul of a philosopher king —working together like the world’s most precise clock or a roost of crows in winter #vss365 #extrusion

Foreswunk should be the patron word of perimenopause.

It's important to take a break from screaming into the void to laugh now and then. Even if that laughter has an edge of frantic terror to it.

The tentacled morass that she pulled from her chest was the #synthesis of every hurt every betrayal every moment of neglect she’d experienced She had nurtured it for years until there was only enough room left inside for it or her and she’d finally had to choose who lived and who died #vss365

#numbernerds for the win! This is pretty freaking cool.

Out in the garden a melodrama unfolds as the grey squirrel buries its treasure patting it down under leaves turned orange and red glancing furtively over its shoulder but not seeing the murder of crows perched high above conspiring to steal its loot #vss365 #conspire #poetry

I set a timer so I would know when my feelings were done flinching when the shrill sound pierced the quiet and watching as my anxiety bubbled over #vss365 #flinching #poetry

"I AM A GOOD PERSON." @clareblackwood.bsky.social is brilliant, as always.

Do you ever get tired of being told you’re strong she asked turning the knife in her hand to point at her reflection Why can’t they see the tightrope that you’re walking between what is bearable and the abyss that waits for you to slip #vss365 #bearable #poetry

When life hands you lemons and then subsequently burns down your lemonade stand, you can at least be grateful that @nin.com are still making music.

Oh, my heart ❣️

She flexes new muscles the ones she never knew she had the ones they tried to bury under obligations and remonstrations and years of emotional labour She feels the power coiled inside her now and wishes she could whisper the truth in her younger self’s ear #vss365 #power #poetry

It's time to realize that efficiency is a property for humans to use, humans are not for it to use. It's time to realize that human society is not a corporation, and we are not its employees, and that its profits are ours. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

Chance would be a fine thing I said My dread drowns the singing of dreams Rings me with screams and crowns a king Then the coin flips and I dance again #vss365 #poetry #chance

You only get one chance to show them that you belong that you are definitely not an alien pretending to be a girl who understands #vss365 #chance #poetry

Miss Ripley doing her best to impersonate a cushion. #AlaskanMalamute #doofus

I placed my anger on a pedestal just above my sorrow #articles of faith to remind me that solitude is something else I can believe in #vss365 #Poetry

Unless there's a secret plan to feed the Heritage Foundation guy to whatever lives in the Rideau Canal, I can't see the rationale for this meeting. Fucking politicians.

This is a tough decision! Depending on the day, it's either Find the River or Strange Currencies.

Look at this beautiful puppy. ❤️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...