: r.o.c. #11

        	look at a landscape and screw up your character

do it when not thinking about …

: serrulata spontanea the blossoms called me out tonight while weeping by the reservoir and posing over and onto its still …

: to draw the outline of your figure in my mind water, candles, snare, marbles, moin

: 🍿 his smell (dir. kalil haddad, 2024) the physical odour and the metaphysical reality are …

: a reversed summer, take 2 recorded 2021-2022 at bnsf havre yard, havre, montana; edgewater, chicago, illinois; brighton, …

: « “GET AWAY” is a difficult thing to say when your body is an invitation, even one you …

: a reversed summer this has been superseded

: 🍿 werckmeister harmonies, (dir. béla tarr, 2000) the whale itself was constantly …

: the loss of my sinister we make hay out of the light inside the cabin: reedy, aching culms of chartreuse rattling …

: « is there a possibility that laundry can be redeemed as an art, a cultural form? if there is an …

: a donkey, a chicken, a rat, and a bunny story time/swingset

: recalcitrance as virtue improvisation, snow, g minor

: 🍿 numbskull revolution (dir. jon moritsugu, 2026) “dude, trust me. let’s get skullfucked …

: 🍿 late spring (dir. yasujirō ozu, 1949)

: the petals accrue underneath my tongue, between incisors, incising into gum and bone. smooth, …

: ecayed a leaf on its last twinge, bereaved til the next year a manicule: for word usage, fantastical, …

: limekiln for s.o. slaking into mortar clarifying to sweet enrobing nixtamal engulfing the plaster bury me, …

: the river's bed down from the dam, i slithe, bedward and ferrous-tongued – magnets draw blood to the perimeter a …

: no hands (your green hand) she consulted the list of things that can fill her up and none of them are at hand. there is little …

: notes on breviary what we do is the work of the goddesses, but of most, we have an ongoing responsibility to abrade …

: no answer/five years hi, it’s ________. i can’t come to the phone right now. leave a message and i’ll …

: hollywood & alameda 82 degrees, sunny, subtle breeze. i’m swaddled in purple and black to move with that breeze …

: an acre for victory a doleful heat sits somewhere else—the crackling intersections gathering their own radiances—a dusky …

: thunks i try not to let you hear it. it being: thunks. the sputtering tension of a wire, vibrating. a …

: to my almond to my almond @ the intersection::: i saw you glistening it was 20 yrs from now & you had the …

: time is nothing but not amenable our courting, like many a queer courtship, was undergirded by poetry. there was a moment of reading …

: ritual bathing for balance intention a.a.v.z., the recipient of this ritual, indicated that she wanted the following: clarity, …

: equinoctes times three: this is how our story begins (not with a pang, but a whisper: the breath moved through …

: erasures for virgo season i. o we're moved i love Venus, i could be like fighting words. parsing out some very specific …

: on assuring success in a creative endeavor candles lit by lighter and match (two purple, one white) new salt placed in bowl invocation and …

: two pairs of blunnies to be read top-down and/or bottom-up boots sigh, dust- rags erase thick scar- work, interlacing …

: caelum iii/juglans cinerea i felt the sun pour down into molten bronze on my shoulders: casting me into an unlikely statue. …

: back of the car agate in the front seat and she is driving. her hair is long and she is fat. she carries her lunch …

: a song for tara at fifteen, going around half-cocked, still unsure, wandering, she found herself in the back of the …

: caelum i a blank-faced chair catches the glow of soft light from above. its bare seat, awaiting its chance at …

: sisterhood/recordhood the archive: if we want to know what that will have meant, we will only know in times to come. …

: juglans regia there is a brook by the side of the road. the first time you came to the countryside you had me wash …

: juglans sp. the road they is moving beneath are tired legs the fast sun she already lost itself down below. …

: the certain stone i long to be wholly certain, just to be certain of how we all will thrive, just to be certain of a …

: greensnap stalks not yet knee high, i shift through your brace roots, making feathery steps in an alien, …

: caelum ii we turn off the side street in slippery silence. perspiration pools at the back of my knees, …

: the plagal cadence an asking for, not of a deference to, not from a conquered heap of, well, what we imagine inside, …

: nadeshiko we are in a land of stately pinks erupting pyroclastic, the stateless continent of a sooty god. but …

: a felting burlap around legs and heat and, you can’t find enough hot water here. there are four or five …

: callippe terror strikes in the slow afternoon of escape: a tide of mordancy lapping at my toes, a stitch in …

: the blue line swinger a pair of trembling eyes, tracing shadows cast from blank referents quivering and interpreting …

: cluttering her hands don’t wait for much these days, not even telephone calls: she skulks too slowly to …

: a tear in the sky she looks at her reflection and finds a pair of purple eyes sprouting from her shoulders. they look …

: basking in puce polished metals and precious stones are so intrinsically transporting that even a victorian, even an …

: saccharine rudiment two pulses ache under silk breast and breeze one mint-lime, lavender, burnt and teary another: …

: zoochory a spilling beam splitting down my chest warming through me, a slitting prism. not a drop of inky …

: fractured eyes an eye writes and writhes i/t-self. the pear an eye breaks in/to when it catches i/ts reflection in …

: cerasus taken aback that cherry blossoms were still there. tree upon tree, bough upon bough. i remember when …

: washing and anointment of the feet the intention of this ritual is to establish a bond of service (ideally mutual but without …

: prefatory notes on washing and anointing of the feet to inform ritual, look to 1 Samuel 25:41, John 12:3, and Song of Songs 1:12-14, as well as Song of …

: the not knowing: cage and calvinism it’s been a while since i’ve been deeply unsettled by the lack of resolution in a film, …

: in a stage whisper: silence, embodiment, and trans* archival praxis inches give way to lies paint a target on your chest to make it easy for the hunters 🔗 a university …

: feast of the third day candle lit by lighter and match rod and amulet removed from bowl old salt cleansed from bowl new …

: citation and/in context of gemini tamsin recently wrote about her “ethically questionable citation practices” that she …

: rubus two without sleep i dream of pressing a body hard against a wall bathed in pattern and light, the color …

: saffodil a blossoming coyheart deman ding a murmer ing narcisse daw dli ng a wayfinding youwhile collapsing a …

: the april queens i bear stares: a hundred. a retreat into the woods, a fougère hangs on linen. blues and greens have …

: peak performance don’t stake too much in me don’t make me fall in love again we try this over you and …