If self-love

were a mirage,

it would decorate

distance,

shimmer over

others’ eyes,

evaporate

on contact

- Rae Armantrout

abusing the system is an oxymoron

- amber dawn

If I desire

women who are fiction,

does it mean

I have fictionalized myself?

- Amber Dawn

The queer bar is funhousing again.

Bucking dance floor. Ball pit. Smells

like spandex lamé after the DJ mashes

Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out

of My Head” with New Order’s “Blue

Monday.”

- Amber Dawn

You said NATURE IS INDIFFERENT

TO SUFFERING. I said whoa you and nature

have so much in common

- Natalie Shapero

a lógica econômica infiltrada nos afetos

AR

até o vento

parece exigir

alguma forma de retorno

pelas folhas

que move

Have I told you

about when I died and came back

and everyone begged me

to please stay dead? It wasn’t, they promised me, personal—

they’d just gone all out on the funeral, and they didn’t

want all that money to be for nothing—

- Natalie Shapero

Vulnerability is a practice. It's not a destination.

- David Begnaud

minha barriga (lar tanto do medo como do desejo)

- Tomasz Jędrowski, Nadando no Escuro (2024)

Era assim que eu vivia naquela época: por meio dos livros.

- Tomasz Jędrowski, Nadando no Escuro (2024)

Eu sentia um ressentimento vago em relação a mim mesmo, uma alienação em relação ao meu corpo de vinte e dois anos.

- Tomasz Jędrowski, Nadando no Escuro (2024)

haiku /ˈhaɪ.kuː/> n. (pl. same

or haikus) a Japanese poem 

of seventeen syllables, in 

three lines of five, seven, 

and five. 

dog /dɑːɡ/> n. poet 

Homework 

I don’t know that word 

But I’m completely certain 

I didn’t eat it

Returning 

Whenever you leave 

The wonder of your return 

Almost makes things whole 

In: Coleman, Jamie. What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs. London: Bantam Press, 2018.

As usual,

Erik Kain nails his analysis of

From Season 4, Episode 9 and

House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 1.

You can dream he's yours