Archive (Page 12) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

2021-11-21 slowness enters me like something familiar, / and it feels like going home.

2021-11-14 The cheerful mild constant anxiety / of your childhood turned / to writing

2021-11-07 because even in heaven / they don’t sing / all the time

2021-10-31 These are the seasons Persephone promised / as she turned on her heel

2021-10-24 call the people you’ve been thinking about calling. / do the things your pummeling heart says do.

2021-10-17 in autumn I remember that we are cold-smitten

2021-10-10 Wish you could be here / to talk about it like it was so important. / Wish you could. /

2021-10-03 Thunder grumbles on the horizon / I buy time with another story

2021-09-26 All the Earth has borne beguiles us / & battered bodies build our acres.

2021-09-19 I repent better in the waning / season

2021-09-12 We might find a humanity that is not asking to be seen, but demanding instead.

2021-09-05 I mean, / what pearl forms around a grain of plastic in an oyster?

2021-08-22 the dead are changeless. / They grow no older. / It is I who have changed,

2021-08-15 i want to talk about respect. / how even the desperate deserve it.

2021-08-08 did you know roots are easy / to snap?

2021-08-01 The being of some is: to be. Of others: to be without. [Premium post]

2021-07-27 Invisible until you won’t see them / won’t bend and lift their comfort [Premium post]

2021-07-25 The After Party: "community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist"

2021-07-18 Just take the imagists. Their heads explode. [Premium post]

2021-07-11 Do not raise your small voice against it. And do not / take cover.