Archive (Page 13) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

2021-07-10 It feels better to move with time than it does to constantly race against it.

2021-07-04 a different kind of life [Premium post]

2021-06-27 hope bleeds slowly from my mouth / into the dirt that covers us all

2021-06-20 The After Party: "Identity is a hallucination...and everything is a story"

2021-06-13 You are trying to be precise but everything is a carbon-like surface that scrolls by with pinpricks emitting memory’s wavy threads. [Premium post]

2021-06-12 The magic settles uneasy; it turns out fairy dust was always / fake.

2021-06-06 I ask that they describe / an object right in front of them, to make / it come alive, and one writes about death,

2021-05-30 Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”

2021-05-29 a deputizing of hundreds. a machine gun on standpipe hill. a dropping of bombs from chartered planes. [Premium post]

2021-05-23 Everyone loves that familiar warbeat: I know all the words to this war.

2021-05-20 Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up? [Premium post]

2021-05-16 It doesn’t matter that / there is nowhere to run to.

2021-05-12 Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. [Premium post]

2021-05-09 running and running until she reaches / at last the one and only door [Premium post]

2021-05-06 Time is a nice medium, but very little can be made from it. And perhaps one of its finer qualities is its tendency to go on. [Premium post]

2021-05-02 I learned it’s okay to glance down / into the sea. So many lessons bubble up if you know / where to look.

2021-04-25 we used our words we used what words we had to weld, / what words we had we wielded

2021-04-18 There are politics to death / and here politics performs / its own autopsies

2021-04-11 by cowardice or courage / the one who find our way / back to this scene [Premium post]

2021-04-04 I would laugh if I was not being smothered by the violence of imagination