You have been gone for a long time long enough that my little boy is nearly grown and my optimistic heart has been tempered by too much grief but not so long that I’ve forgotten the feel of your love on bad days I wrap myself in its remnants and remember what it felt like to belong #vss365 #poem

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I’d like to say that you were the one who killed her acting alone with premeditated precision but that wouldn’t be the truth I was the one who let her fall into your gravity and kept her there long after I knew it wasn’t safe the truth is that she was the best part of me and I miss her #vss365

Can someone explain why a rabbit has decided my backyard is a safe place to have babies? I have two very excited Alaskan Malamutes that suggest otherwise.

If she had done her due diligence instead of leaping head first off the cliff and into the frying pan then maybe she would be someone else somewhere else having a perfectly lovely day As it stands she waived her right to be anyone but her foolish self the moment he walked into the room #vss365

Sometimes I think my heart is just a tangled knot of elastic bands copper wire and muscle brought to life on a stormy night by a mad scientist and a bolt of lightning It works but its rhythm is unnatural as it beats inside my monstrous chest #vss365 #poetry #lightning

In my dreams I am a tiger lily vibrant wild and thriving no matter where I go In the real world I am a jade plant hardy reliable and surviving with minimal levels of care #vss365 #poetry #jade

I am not meant for a world of schedules obligations and complicated little rules that teach me something about myself I can never quite grasp I am meant for a world of monsters side quests and awkward time loops that teach me something about found family and myself as we save the universe #vss365

Koji looking extra clean and fluffy post-bath. 🥰

They meant to burn it all down to raze the walls and set torches to everything that would burn they meant to destroy us but we know what to do with ashes with patient hands we banked the fire and tended the embers that they gave us and then we waited for nightfall #vss365 #poetry #bank

Tentative tentacle stretches unfurls reaches for me And I am suckered by eight arms and nine brains Captivated by camouflage that ripples like a light show Until a sharp sound interrupts and tentacles retreat behind a curtain of ink #vss365 #poetry #ink

The wind howled and the trees bowed in supplication as lightning reached its electric fingers toward the stormbinder who stood with arms raised and drew the raging tempest into her teapot #vss365 #tempest #poetry

Crash Landing On the surface you could argue that I have surpassed expectations just by being here But if the bar is not being dead then I could argue that you need to adjust your expectations #vss365 #surpass #poetry

They say she is obsessed with digging for the details and she is disappearing down rabbit holes of rage I say she is possessed with a need to find the truth and she is fighting to set her rage free #vss365 #obsessed

Transformed in a blink my bouncy baby becomes a bright-eyed young man #vss365 #haiku #bouncy

I dream of alien landscapes stark plains saturated colours mountainous flora strange geometry teeming with fauna that I cannot reconcile with any encyclopedia And yet I know this geography like I know the lines of my hands the beat of my heart so familiar that it can only be a part of me #vss365

It is always hungry this ghost that lives inside my machine skittering down neural pathways plucking at blood vessels and ransacking my endocrine system looking for something that will ease the desperate ache that binds us and confines us to this purgatory #vss365 #ache

How am I supposed to hold on to this thing that I thought was mine but turned out to be just a mirage pale and broken now and slipping through my fingers no matter how tightly I grip it #vss365 #pale

So the crows stopped by on their way back to the Ottawa roost and totally made my day. 💖

Cannot wait to be reading this book! (Yes, I know I will have to wait anyway 🤫)

The snow crunches and I stoop low so the branch —bereft like me— doesn't scratch my face in protest of my passage or of winter in general And for a moment the branch and I —in synchrony— vibrate with our grief as we log our complaints with the universe #vss365 #stoop

I cannot do this be this anymore There is not enough air left to keep me from drowning And I don't think I want to be rescued Brought back just to do it again and again and again I can't I need to be free #vss365 #air

Best present ever. ❤️🌱 #pitcherplant #indoorgarden

In the darkness of space of winter the idea of spring seems impossible like a mythical creature or the remnant of a dream I search for a glimpse of green like I’m looking for a miracle and maybe I am That first green #shoot means light means life is still possible after so much darkness #vss365

Miss Ripley would like to wish you a happy winter solstice!

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

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

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Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!

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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.