Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

Soft angels 🌸🐑🪽 #art #traditionalart #cuteart

In the absence of your body I see a rolling summer night Fireflies on soft skin Meat seared maroon Fire licking the sky Memories feeding its flame Burn on, beautiful elegy Summer is saved for you —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [sear]

feeling real grateful for having the cognitive ability to consciously arrange colors and lines to represent objects and/or ideas rn

A lot of people’s problems with injustice and cruelty is that they don’t like being aware of it and would do anything to go back to pretending that nothing is wrong

That haunted and heavy baritone drawl fills halls in my mind, no space left unsung no forgiveness begun memories blur laughter & pain your mark is #unmissable though no one dares ask where the cut in the wall had come from The ghost of your hand stays only for me to see —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365

enough with the AI. let’s talk about all the wasted water trapped in Dasani bottles

Music videos used to mean something

swallowed the sun in silent reverence of what i thought i wanted only to find its burn lingered longer than its taste —j.e.m. #poetry

Staring down the barrel of that suave dusty highway Rushing toward nothing with nowhere to go What am I chasing down bent sideways byways Why am I pushing for things I don’t know? —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [suave]

The sky was dark, freckled with stars, and cut with the smile of God The night was young, or so it felt, while the lovers kept dancing on The hope was heavy, weighed by sun, and the promise of darkness end With a smile fade that could still be seen while you gently held my hand —j.e.m. #poetry

Curious minds praise the clear reflection of faith in your eyes, in mine —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [reflection]

My cat doesn’t like to watch TV with me, but if I turn on Lady and the Tramp, boy is SAT

I MADE ZINES!!! I SOLD MY WORK 😭🫶

Always pictured loving as the epilogue of two the last thing I see before my dying view Treated like a prize held like a goal objects of affection never food for a soul But you love like footsteps at a slow steady pace filling my chapters with a soft, soft grace —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [goal]

Brand association with my loving ache Pairs beautifully with tender laughter and crisp apple cakes Packaged up for purchase my daydreams and my tears Hoping someone buys them and it quells all my fears —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [associate]

currently the mood rn

Been participating in Hooptober on Letterboxd and it’s a bloody blast!! Here’s what I committed to watching & reviewing #hooptober #horrorsky boxd.it/P0ouO

Advert attempts aged in apathy actioned before it began Never who you made me to be which explains this sinking sand If I wanted it more maybe I’d have it — I tell myself to sleep If I wanted him more maybe I’d know it I tell myself to dream —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [advert]

✨ 1:11 ✨

Them there eyes

there’s something special about friends who push you to do better in difficult moments

laser focus cellophane Umbrella wrapped in pouring rain Chasing lights late night life won’t ever find Again —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [wrapper]

chatGPT stealing the em dash is its worst offense cause now people won’t know I spent 2 hours refining that photo caption

what a fun, sexy time

A threshold, a precipice Perhaps a step before a fall I stood in that doorway At once forever, at once not at all To believe it took my mother To remind me of the worth To see this haunted house And step out for my birth Well, that. It almost made me laugh. —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [doorway]

just saw an IROC for the first time and now I understand why wheatus was so self effacing

Weapons (2025) may not be the best movie I’ve seen this year, but it sure as hell has the most iconic villain. Obsessed

Dim starlit avenues chase time toward a mausoleum where memory still laughs at the thought, Where was I if not with you? Who was I if not with you? —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [laugh]

Ain’t it funny how You push to love How you Ache to please Lose yourself Your sass Ain’t it funny how You let time pass Filling gaps With dead air Not even noticing You pulled away Love is yours to breathe —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [sass]

I wore face glitter to my law school graduation

going outside frightens me there’s pieces of you in the air on the sidewalk, a willow tree the sparrows nest above my window a flower sustaining a bee— my universe repeats your pattern until you’re all I see until days light returns and again you’re next to me —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [sparrow]

If you own a business and make the decision to buy one-ply toilet paper, your business license should be revoked

For every benis there is an equal and opposite wenis

teenage me was much more preoccupied with impressing myself than other people & I miss her

Fragments of past selves Tie my wrists to you So that when the music slows And the dance ends I remember not the cold Left by your leaving hand But the nostalgic grace Of when you first grabbed me —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [nostalgia]

I love adult money & festival lafufus

Bittersweet sips On strawberry wine Lilting laughter On the breeze Memories, moments Pressed in time To share on nights like these. Your breath fills my lungs. Your heart in my chest. Your name on my tongue— Bring my body to rest —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [moment]

Lorde’s ability to capture the poetics of whatever I’m experiencing when she drops music MUST be studied. We’re star-crossed.

I may hate on them sometimes but there’s very few things that eating a banana won’t solve

summer 2025 vibes

Clouds billow out mouths and lights flash on ceilings Sequins shine under strobe Simple pleasures of people Dancing and dressing In feathers and velour Homecoming slash riot Pride was meant for both —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [slash]

heart stopping bus stop Saturday pennies to ride nickels to hold love to cherish take me to the last stop & take the sidewalk with you —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [stop]

Salt saturated skin soaked softly by the briny breath of the cerulean sea sneaking kisses under the midday sun —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [brine]

working on this again & letting everyone know so maybe I have some accountability (on page 14 of what I hope is 30)

got a role in my dream musical 💙❤️💛💚

Good morning bloomfs ☀️

Delicate petals crushed under the weight of a thumb desperate to feel anything, to press into the soft buzz of a bee sipping its golden soul Did you know I wanted to marry you? I whimper & whisper, afraid of the harsh unforgiving sound of wondering what went wrong —j.e.m. #poetry #vss365 [whimper]