Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.

my son divamaxxing in the heatwave

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

(I've been reading too much sci-fi while wandering in rainy forests, trailing my hands through wet leaves and slick mud and the crumbling softness of fallen mouldering trees covered in mushrooms)

once more I am thinking of latex

'This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past [...] one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage in front of his feet [...] a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it [...] propels him into the future. This storm is what we call progress.' Walter Benjamin.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Les Animaux Mythologiques, Emile Hinzelin, 1857 - 1937.

“GREAT ANT-EATER MYRMECOPHAGA JUBATA*, LINN. PANGOLIN, OR SCALY ANT-EATER. MANIS CRASSICAUDATA, LINN.” From Dobutsuzu (Chart of Animals), Japan, 1875-7 National Diet Library of Japan: dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/12899970... #JapaneseArt #SciArt *now M. tridactyla

going to a sunny place to escape this island's winter? I'm going to be insufferable

"Crow in the Snow," oil on panel by Melwell, 20x16 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

A sample poem from my forthcoming @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection and a blog post. Something about time, booksellers and folklore 💚

Delighted to share a poem from Folkish plus insights from poet @kymdeyn.bsky.social. Join us on a journey to an ancient quarry in Knaresborough, discover this legendary landscape and intriguing inhabitants: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2026/03/in-c... Folkish arrives in April, ready to pre-order now

the fact that horror media gives me comfort and slows my heartbeat says a lot about the state of the world rn

writing !! ghost!! poems

Mothmom #kaseyart #penandink

sat down to write w one cup hot water to clear my fountain pen nib and one cup fresh rooibos tea, guess which I drank

got a case of the heart rot

Read this. Read it now. I am SO serious. "In star-language, ten demands could explode from a visitor simultaneously, long sounds radiating outwards like blades in night, similar but distinct, all joined at one nucleus of want." ☄️

watch horror movies with ur friends and live to 100 or die quietly in your house with the exorcist dvd menu looping in the background forever

@spacemutineers.bsky.social said babadook is she/they

going to meld this pendant to my sternum so I never lose it again

love going to a dr. and he says "what in your mind makes you think you are tired" when I describe being unable to do anything but be sensorially deprived with a migraine + nausea combo after fatigue kicks in

its cosy game rest-week for me, I say, loading up my assassin vampirelord maxtheft skyrim save & also my artisanal hyperproduction gemstone hoard of a stardew valley farm

wrote 10000 words in less than a month and wondering why my nerves feel like exposed & frayed electrical wire

Come on in

a sword card (tarot) just loves to see me coming

there goes that draft I guess

can't wait to do my lil trip to the fancy italian cafe nearby and buy rose harissa and fig jam and all kinds of decadence I dont need

when is catbus from totoro coming to pick me up

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️ #art

what about I'm tired is my cfs not understanding

one thing is that I'm a fighter through and through; laugh and spit my broken teeth in your face, you can't if I don't let you type of iliad bitch

WELCOME PISCES SEASON! DREAMS! POETRY! DISTRACTION! WHO NEEDS BOUNDARIES WHEN YOU COULD BE IN A CONSTANT STATE OF OVERWHELM! ABOLISH ICE AND EMPIRE! TOUCHING GRASS ISN’T ENOUGH! WE NEED ENDLESS CONSEQUENCES TO BEFALL ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DO HORRIBLE THINGS! LIFE IS SHORT! ECLIPSES ARE HERE! HAVE FUN!

ok but charybdis is more mouth than body which is so hot

at that stage in my phd where this is me about latex to anyone who will listen

Eating all the ingredients in my Skyrim inventory just to feel something

Daily bunny no.3235 will get there eventually

this one by sonia sanchez

sometimes I close my eyes and death of vivek oji replays behind my lids like a movie I know I'll perish at the end of

muttering motivation under my breath: it's ok this is your nazgûl origin story

in the mood to return to the past life where I was cleopatra's asp

how much cherry cola is too much cherry cola

A sonnet for one of my favourite beasts, originally published in Fourteen Magazine a year or two ago!

astrology placements: cancer sun, gemini moon, scorpio rising is like having your emotional stability rendered medieval rack style

canisia lubrin's book releasing w silver press is the only strand keeping me from launching into the abyss atm

fullmetal alchemist brotherhood law of equivalent exchange you will haunt me forever