the spartan boy

the spartan boy, poetry sideblog for @myth-boy

[hornandivoryzine]

After a wonderful first issue, we thought we’d just remind you that submissions are still open. We’ve a pretty good idea of what the next issue is going to feel like & we can’t wait to share it with you!

We’re also now accepting art, fiction & non-fiction as well as poetry, which we’re really excited about. You can check out our full submission guidelines here: www.hornandivory.co.uk/submissions

Feel free to email us any questions & queries at [email protected]

[hyyacinthus]

⚡️ If you're not overwhelmed with these :0

never mind the galaxygive me a room condemned with light,

so heavy the floorboards splinterlike lightening. a tele-

kaleidoscope facing inwards notout. & oh! those hosts of

celestial bodies & oh! how none ofthem are ours.

send me a  ⚡ (@myth-boy) and I’ll write you a poem

[myth-boy]

inspired by my love @santapescadora, send me a ⚡️ & I’ll write you a short poem!! it may take me a while to get to all of them cause I want to do them well but I will do them!!

[hornandivoryzine]

BAPTISMS: A BEGINNING

Due to the hard work of the Horn & Ivory team and our contributors, the first issue is now live! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted, we’re thrilled to have you as a part of what we’ve been doing. On this tumblr we’ll be posting updates & our favourite parts of the issue as well as some other fun stuff. We received some truly stunning work and we can’t wait to share more of it with you over the coming weeks. We’ll also be hosting a short interview with one of our contributors over the coming days, so stay tuned! The first tendrils of the next issue are starting to take shape already. We don’t know what it’s called yet, but we’re sure it’ll let us know when it’s ready. In the meantime, you can read Issue I: Baptisms here. 

[hornandivoryzine]

A super cool project is coming to your screen this summer about heat & truth, lies & dreams. So, if you write poetry–or anything else–and like vague & ephemeral projects, you should totally get involved & submit here.

There are seven days left to submit to the first issue, but we accept submissions on a rolling basis & we look forward to hearing from you! 🌙

[hornandivoryzine]

A super cool project is coming to your screen this summer about heat & truth, lies & dreams. So, if you write poetry–or anything else–and like vague & ephemeral projects, you should totally get involved & submit here.

There are seven days left to submit to the first issue, but we accept submissions on a rolling basis & we look forward to hearing from you! 🌙

[kidskylark-deactivated20240428]

a short list of stars that died this year | eliel vera [@myth-boy]

Working on this has been such a joy, and I’m so grateful I got the chance to do it. (full view, please!)

[myth-boy]

Sautillé

rosehip oil. honey-soaked lips. searching honeycomb caverns for a wide enough tomb to hide my body.

moonlight and fitted hips. I suffered silently among the bluebells to fold green stems into crowns. held my own coronation in the open fields.

white sheets. summer cities. open plains that I can call healing or forgetting. I get confused—when they both feel like drowning.

some people are built for healing. gentle spines that bend towards sunlight. lemon tea and woodsmoke eyes.

roots that sink into the earth like grateful green fingers searching for water when it’s 110° in the middle of winter.

[myth-boy]

Sautillé

rosehip oil. honey-soaked lips. searching honeycomb caverns for a wide enough tomb to hide my body.

moonlight and fitted hips. I suffered silently among the bluebells to fold green stems into crowns. held my own coronation in the open fields.

white sheets. summer cities. open plains that I can call healing or forgetting. I get confused—when they both feel like drowning.

some people are built for healing. gentle spines that bend towards sunlight. lemon tea and woodsmoke eyes.

roots that sink into the earth like grateful green fingers searching for water when it’s 110° in the middle of winter.

[hyyacinthus]

How old are you?

im a neat 19

[ephemerereview]

under the hum of the cicadas a fist meets a face / and all of a sudden teenage angst is a spectator sport / all of a sudden violence is just another word for love

Memory and Other Sharp Things, Eliel Vera (published in L'Éphémère Review Issue III)

[myth-boy]

you have more hands than a child trying to catch the cool rain / which, in february, holds just a second too long in the sky / as if deciding whether or not it’s time to come down. or

if this is another day for staying in bed. & you say / “not everything is pathetic fallacy / the weather is not about you / the sky is not always about you.” / & maybe not but I’m not

the only one who prays for winter anymore. when I talk about grey clouds / I picture you on my window- seat / a replica marble david we had to break in half to fit inside the display case. & I try and talk

about the window even though we both know there’s nothing to say. just like how / when the snow piles up past the door you can turn the handle / but there’s nowhere to go. I want to talk about the dark

& the colour & the faint blue of your fingertips. / but you remind me of something you did last night / when the ice was just starting to form and the coldest

place in the house / was the 3 centimeters between my reaching hand and your broad back. you like the sternum before the first incision & the oak before acorns start to

grow. you climbed out of bed in the untouched morning to look at something pure. listen to me—I’m trying to tell you something important / about how much this youngness hurts.

Eliel Vera, My Last Thought Before We Skidded Off The Road for the prompt “driven snow”, @nepenthenet

[myth-boy]

badly scanned reboot of my previous thing based on a post by @post–grad!! thought I’d actually have a day off today (which didn’t happen) but I’d committed myself to doing this so here we are, at 2:23am.

if you prefer the rustique charm™ of the other one lmk because that can be scanned too

anyway I love my son jtk

[myth-boy]

All the Things I Promised You, by Eliel Vera

[tieflesbians-archive]

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[myth-boy]

I loved a boy with rose-wine lips and ivy soft in the bend of his elbow. now I cannot walk through the folds of a garden without the earth whispering his name. look at how the stones hold his body like a secret / at how the sun keeps the colour of his eyes. watch the trees sigh his hands to the breeze, with the starlings flying gentle over rome.

Eliel Vera from Birds and Other Portents (via myth-boy)

[myth-boy]

When I add dying to the list of things I have to do today, it means I’m already bleeding / that the knife has already found a home in my skin. So tell me how the ache starts gentle in the soles of your feet, and brushes softly the arch of your spine. My new mouth is a temple of lies and I don’t want to talk about it. I can’t. Let me wander blue streets like a spirit come back to life. Look at how the moon is dying tonight! Look how the streets are like labyrinths tonight! Look at how everything stands still and how my second hand is one of many things not breathing tonight! Curled up in the shower with the radio on / window open / eyes shut / feeling the static lining my lungs. The phone rings and I don’t move. Is there anything left to feel guilty for?

Eliel Vera, from Dusk (via myth-boy)