where foxes say goodnight

I will tell the audient void.

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[myelicia]

Julianna Bibor

[ronandreams]

erin lecount, sweet fruit

[hellwatermelon]

Nicolas Bruno, The Embellished Collection

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[kraken17]

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

[danielwaldorf]

Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

[discoursedrome]

OK this passage is goofy in numerous respects but I want to set that aside for a minute and just focus on one thing: "Speef" will always sound like a sound effect, but it's better if you spell it "Spief", right?

This is one of the things I find most peculiar about English: doubled vowels are connotatively infantile, despite being extremely common and the normal way to represent certain sounds which aren't themselves seen that way. It's not the sound at all, it's just the fact that the vowels are doubled! You'll observe that it only applies to digraphs and not to diaereses like "cooperate" or "vacuum". With core vocabulary this fades into the background, but it leaps out with unfamiliar names or words. That's why the British colonial use of "oo" to represent "u" sounds in non-European languages comes off as disrespectful, and (beyond the uncanny-valley effect) it's why English speakers perceive Dutch orthography as inherently ludicrous.

This is insane, right? There's nothing meaningful about whether a digraphic vowel uses two different letters or the same one twice, and as far as I can tell the sounds represented by -ee- and -oo- are totally arbitrary. This isn't written down anywhere and nobody teaches it to second-language learners, it's just this vague vibe you acquire from immersion. What the hell happened there

[a-3asfoor]

it will pass ..

[impishglee]

i’m curious what arbitrary and specific flavors people dislike are. rb and tag a Taste you simply don’t fuck with. for flavor reasons not texture reasons. for me? i do not like elderflower or caraway for whatever reason

[petaltexturedskies]

It is time now, I said, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit among the flux of happenings. Something had pestered me so much I thought my heart would break. I mean, the mechanical part. I went down in the afternoon to the sea which held me, until I grew easy. About tomorrow, who knows anything. Except that it will be time, again, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit.

Mary Oliver, “Swimming, One Day in August”

[silverrdagger]

whatever 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[energyprison]

the monks described me as "a pleasure to have on the mountain"

[luthienne]

Diane Seuss, from Modern Poetry [ID’d]

[impatientlygiven]

[petaltexturedskies]

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds

[bcnmar]

Clare Caulfield

[hikaaa-bi]

“i asked chatgpt—” well i asked the ceaseless watcher to turn its gaze upon you

[havingapoemwithyou]

exile by Carolyn Forché