the grammars

of silence

- rosie stockton

I like it my way

where I’m hungry

for your synapses

& attention

- Rosie Stockton

it’s time

I thaw for you

your bones

and your right

now

it’s time

for love

in the time

of dollar store cutlery

- Rosie Stockton

Barely an I, I’m all contradiction

- Rosie Stockton

I don’t know how to be in a body

- Rosie Stockton

Despite how it might look

I was raised right.

- Andrea Gibson

You can’t see me if I close my eyes.

You have no idea where I am.

- Andrea Gibson

The noise is not noise

if I’m the one who is in control

of the loud. Pra pedir silêncio eu berro, 

pra fazer barulho eu mesma faço

- Andrea Gibson & Rita Lee

My mother said the fences are the walls of her womb. 

Said she could only protect me if I stayed inside, 

away from everyone and everything.

- Claudia, My First Summer (2020)

But when we reduce it to a simple binary, is this person lying or telling the truth?

We lose a lot of the nuance of how we move through our relationships.

- Leanne Ten Brinke, The Diary of a CEO (Sep 7, 2026)

we follow tomorrow,

standing ready to welcome

the improbable

- harryette mullen

attentive sentries in realms

of solitude

- harryette mullen

Any exit from the logic of language might be an entry in a symptomatic dictionary. 

The alphabetical order of this ample block of knowledge might render a 

dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations.

- Harryette Mullen

I beg to dicker

- Harryette Mullen