the night in velvet swallowing stars in its bottomless pool the more I stare, the less I'm here #unctuous shadows curl in close breathe in the smoke, sink like a stone a crowd of ghosts but you're alone #vss365

#vss365 #fawn

#vss365 #lace #amwriting

#vss365 #pucker

#vss365 #crisscross #flashfiction

Rather than incorporating #slithy into writing, I was inspired to create some portmanteaux of my own. May I present: n00benesque: voluptuous n00b (adj.) Limpotent: emphatically limp Fibberish: a nonsensical lie Requirous: feeling one requires something Grippery: the opposite of slippery #vss365

#vss365 #rabbit_hole #amwriting

#vss365 #cloak #amwriting #repostedbecauseicantwithtypos

#vss365 #fool #amwriting

Gutted. I remember the first time I watched Twin Peaks - completely blown away, an instant favorite. I immediately knew I needed to see everything David Lynch had done. What a loss - but we’re so lucky for the time we got to consciously exist in the same reality with this absolute weirdo. RIP.

#vss365 #labyrinth #amwriting

there is nothing like the thrill of reading something that makes you want to write immediately afterward

#vss365 #silence #amwriting

#vss365 #dust #amwriting

God quit— put his two-week notice in packed up what was dear to him & holy ghosted. That’s it— guess we’re stuck with all our sin. Cue the tiny violin. #vss365 #quit #amwriting

Enjoying this book immensely at the moment. #amreading

#vss365 #esoteric #amwriting

#vss365 #sweet #amwriting

#vss365 #guess #amwriting

#vss365 #measure #amwriting

#vss365 #question #poem #amwriting

A terzanelle for today’s #vss365. #delight #poem

#vss365 #turning #poem #amwriting

A writing prompt should get us closer to that quiet voice & knowing that pulls us along like an undercurrent when we sit down to write. It should catalyze new circuits in your language, not rhetorical gestures. I wrote 31 prompts based on the works of other writers. I hope they're useful to you. 💛

#vss365 #fresh

A bit behind, but here is #resolution. #vss365 #poem #poemaday #poetry

Year's End by Richard Wilbur (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43052/...) #happynewyear #poetry #poem

Here’s a poem called ‘This was the year that was not the year’.

#vss365 #poetry #poemaday #solitude

#vss365 #poetry #poemaday #decorum

Cure me of my gorgeous, heady sin cry out a hymn I am a tiny recluse in your bed my dear, my devil, the #schism is a relief— you beat in me. Dawn darkens— hooves in the garden #vss365

the road glistens under the cracked bowl of the sky the soft stutter of the storm mosaics rainwater and light words hover in my mouth ready to find you when our dying is done we heave the ghost of the day’s end out #vss365 #glisten

Went off on a bit of a tangent away from #tranquility, I fear. #vss365

#vss365 #wicket #poetry #poem

#vss365 #purity

Up on the housetop, click, click, click. The family stared at the ceiling, trembling. Those weren’t reindeer hooves—it was something heavier. Something hungry. The chimney groaned, and a rasping voice echoed, “Coming down… for all of you…”

Goodnight. Three Women and Three Wolves, Grasset, 1892. #GothicAdvent

I'm here with your #silhouette "Black Portrait of a Mother" the smoke of your cigarette wraps around me, a tether to some then, scent memory some embarrassing thoughtcrime some place that feels summery in some time that is not time. #vss365

Just brainstorming for today’s #vss365 word, #silhouette, and I often check the etymology of the words, even if I’m familiar with them, and I’m glad I did with this one. Super interesting and thought I’d share in case anyone else also thinks so. 🤓

#vss365 #drama

“Do you hear what I hear?” the shepherd boy whispered, staring at the star that grew too bright, too fast. It wasn’t light bringing peace. It was fire, descending, and something ancient riding within. “He will bring us goodness and light,” it laughed.

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

A take on a triolet. #vss365 #monochrome

Let’s think in private more.

“Allusion is often not pivotal to the comprehension of a work, but it is pivotal to the full enjoyment of it.” —A.E. Stallings

#vss365 #challenge

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.” —Anne Sexton