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Facetiming (First lockdown, 2020) how soon is it hanging up the phone & instantly sigh almost dial back & yearn for that voice materialised—your stubbled chin— knowing it’s crimson dark at the Bosphorus & still mid-afternoon outside my window                                         a...

We Used Every Part of the Tree Set to music here: https://youtu.be/3sJgo6577dA  First, we lapped at every leaf then tore the veins out with our teeth. For seconds, we licked the twigs until they were pale and our tongues were sore. Third, we spiked the branches between our fingers and toes,...

1. That annoying midwesterner who loves snow   What Brits call “grit”—safety substance— to dissolve ice and snow. Salt-commingled sand,reddish like a radish, ferrous, but mostlythe color of pink sick on the groundearly in the morning outside a nightclub.Somehow its pinkness is worse...

What the Trees Say at Dawn Oneduskymoon-honeyed glissandothreaded through thorned ribcagefluxed mosaic of sustained blossomrefracted in delicate chords of light probingumbra of submarine rasp grasping for a...

The Ballachulish Figure (alder wood and rough crystal c. 600 BC.) Listed among notable deaths of the era:a passenger pigeon at Loch Leven.We’re extinguishing ourselves, Cailleach.Age of Bronze, Age of Iron, Age of Decay.A taxidermy pigeon, Nestlé bottled water,celebrity chefs marking the end of an...