#Jade— Gram— I’m forgetting The way she smelled— Overripe roses She knew how  To hold me steady How to make fists  Mean something I wish her voice Could reach me now Pull me close & say Baby, there is still time for you. I'd give anything To feel that again Not the world—  Her hands #vss365

❤️❤️❤️❤️”Listen, girl, there’s far more to being a witch than magic.” ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Dappled full moonlight parses turquoise shallows tepid and neap Luminescent flux persists Coral blue eyes intuit duet an undersea microcosm #undersea #vss365

Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce. —Karl Marx

“Now people with crosses have come and put slave collars on us. And where is my baby? Where is Larkin?” Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, Chapter 11

- midnight moons were my muse until you a pale eucharist upon a pewter midnight sea forgiveness at a distance step into the quiet your briny name swimming away to her glow undersea ears thickened listening for you - - #vss365 #poetry

His body was the #undersea Caverns & curves Beyond where sight Can follow Each gesture A current that held me still Then forgot me Seafoam in my toes Learning to pulse As blood I never wanted anything So much as to sprout gills Scrape my knees on coral I'm not sure Who kept drowning #vss365

#FromOneLine 413 I remember blueberries precariously balanced on my stomach while November Rain pursed wistful notes from that old stereo onto our beaded skin, caring not that it was summer and the only cold was the first touch of blue on your tongue. #amlistening youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE?...

the #undersea: rippling refractions of luna's light the unlikely symmetry of impossible pearls beads of sweat earned in ardour flashback of drowning in Labyrinth Zone Act 2 the silly the sublime salacious sensory seductions breaching every tide still wanting you #vss365

That first stanza . . .

Pt463 Meona’hane’e didn’t understand the #psychology of aliens any more than she did of that of beings #undersea. Her Mississippian colleague Cindy had taught her that the Heavens & the Underwater world had different rules than their part of Mother Earth. #vss365 #WIPSnips

Crow, Was not a brother, Unlike Owl. Crow, Didn't care for another's Hunger Crow, Can be callous, And Raw to nature's True call. Lily, Only one Who got to slip The barb wire, To unravel The trickery found In his black heart. #vss365 #trickery Treats for Little Crow By Margarita Nizharadze

Pt462 Everything in the cave had Marvin’s #signature all over it. Sheer #trickery. He had been here so long that he had figured out how to manipulate the medicine of this Sacred Space by blending it with his alien technologies! Sacrilege no matter who was his friend 200 years ago! #vss365 #WIPSnips

Looking through The mirror of my 3rd eye I #comport with its steady blinking I have come to know The bounties within its darkness Held by my own curiosities My shadow shines-thrives Below me around me above me Ergo, today & onwards, I am invincible #inkmine #poetry

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#vss365 #seafoam always finds room on this brackish bay mottled in the spume like bottles of perfume with thoughts of yesterday bamboo grasses sway there's fields for floodin' rice & fields for cuttin' hay that cost an oilfield price so many have died to pay youtu.be/pYdvxBxHX2U?...

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Pt459 The #wheels were turning in Ang’s head. She would have to figure out exactly how to query properly in order to override the programmed persona. Ang decided to lower the #hammer once more. “What was the fate of the 2028 Mars mission?” The clone’s eyeballs rolled back again. #vss365 #WIPSnip

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@wdowar.bsky.social answering the question you no longer have—We all do. We are humans. We like patterns. We think we can control stuff with them because we know this story, but that doesn’t always work.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

#vss365 We walked the road To the turning Joined the logging trail Scrambled boulders For fourth minutes Or so The #loop to the bog Guarded by Tom and Grey "Mama moose with two wee ones down there. Can't let you trod by." We nodded at the fae And moved on Respect all round

Shakespeare's 77th 📚💙 #Poetry Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; The vacant leaves thy mind’s imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.

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Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired https://www.rfr.bz/b1cffeb #Solarpunk #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #ClimateFixtion #Hopepunk #Lunarpunk #BeckyChambersAuthor #KimStanleyRobinson #NnediOkorafor #UrsulaLeGuin #GenreGuide #CyberpunkAlternative

Pt455 Memories flashed across Dawn’s mind of making love to Xalapa by the light of a #lantern. Crying, she pushed those away; it was all #water under the bridge. Sonoria’s lips felt too good trailing down her neck. Dawn audibly sucked in the air as Sonoria reached her left breast. #vss365 #WIPSnip

How sad that you CAN help the world, but CHOOSE not to! #TaxTheRich

I would #sink Into depths Unfathomable Just to see you smile Once again #PennedReveries #vss365 #Poetry

Among the bluebells And the hum of spoiled bees, Spring dares to sing. Her flowers, dare to bloom. Something out of nature, Something softly Hidden under the cover of Of Black Bird singing, Strange faith, began to call. #vss365 #sing Young bees confidence, As there was no breeze

With the passing of my wife, the birds came. I didn't let them in but they came nonetheless: the thresher bathing in my #sink when I wash my hands, a flurry of hummingbirds in the kitchen glinting in the morning sun, a family of swifts nesting where my wife used to lay. #vss365

Unable to stay afloat, I hated water. Then he convinced me the ship was safe and won't sink. When it did, mine was the only body to surface. #vss365 #vss #sink

And he’s right . . .

I thought I was flying While being consumed Entrails in jaws Vocal cords torn free Meat caught in teeth I was far too gone to care Then I'd #sink To the ocean floor My bones a house For nameless things I wake with the strangest feeling Part of me stayed down there & won't come back #vss365

@stitchingfiend.bsky.social, bought _The Bone Flower Throne_ Book One on Audible & am looking forward its being my first pleasure read after wrapping up the novels I’ve assigned for my students to read for the semester. ❤️

Pt454 Dawn began to #sink slowly into Sonoria’s embrace as she led them to a woven mat on the cave floor replete with stuffed hide pillows & fur throw blankets. Might as well #milk this pleasure for all it was worth. Who knew what their near future held? Traveling was dangerous. #vss365 #WIPSnips

#vssmagic #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #authors #writersofbluesky #chronicillness #prompt The spell rolled off his #tongue like sweetness, a delicacy to anyone's ears. Magic wielded by such a man was far more dangerous than the every-day kind used by average people. Thus, he wooed us both.

My gram was a caged bird Her mothers before Her daughters to come They sang loud & proud Drowning all But their own sound & it drew men With rough hands & greedy fingers Who loved to pluck Feathers from flesh I have an urge to #sing I keep quiet For I know I'll peck out eyes in turn #vss365

Pt453 The #process was making Dawn’s nerve endings #SING. Dawn wasn’t accustomed to being pursued. They were always the pursuer. It was surprisingly nice having someone out to please them for a change. Sonoria began kissing Dawn’s neck slowly, then worked her way to her mouth. #vss365 #WIPSnips

Thank you, Beth! 💙 @polillitam.bsky.social @parisinthespring99.bsky.social @educatorts.bsky.social @georgiegeeez.bsky.social @1thatsbananas.bsky.social @beantownbop.bsky.social @vtgal.bsky.social @bltkssn.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social

#vss365 in her version of the Big Mama Thornton penned Ball & Chain Janis sez "as a matter o fact man as we learned on the train it's all the same fuckin' day man" ask me I'll say the same bloody levee #banks forgotten names where killin' & takin' is the name o the game from whence our nation came

#vss365 water meetin' sky was the color of her eyes #banks & trees the color of these it was natural for love to materialize like a gentle breeze waters get choppy and the sky dark fortified by trees the bank is still conflagration sweeps the land sky weeps waters quench she took my hand

#vss365 there's blood on my hands because I'm a tax payer I'm a crippler of children a mother slayer I blow up hospitals & just say oops & send my countrymen to their deaths I build walls to keep you out & invent oxymorons like friendly fire as I poison rivers & desecrate their #banks

#vss365 built myself a people #blind not for huntin' though it exists in my mind with re mi & so & so but ain't on the treble clef there's a painting o Joan Jett in leather & felt an old can o aqua net & a serpentine belt that fits a 1978 B210 hatchback ½ a box o sin & Little Debbie snack inside

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#vss365 she found her words tucked under his pillow in the morning his keys hung sloppily over the lip of the plate the sun cut his figure out of the sky leaving a hellish glow he was angry stones skipping across the pond she was in love with tiger lilies sleeping by the river #bank