Who Lives Where the River is Not

Bibliocat • Corporate Poet • i write about melancholic hope • @icajax

[jaxwrites]

you can mourn a past life without wishing to return to it

and darling,

i’m dawning

[targetedknowledge]

[ripempezardexerox]

[saint-ivan-deactivated20241120]

[monstersovka]

✶ PRIDE MONTH ✶

[cosmonautroger]

Angela Smyth, Insomniac

[ymutate]

Lee Sangsoo | South Korea, b. 1983

Siamese Cat, undated

Resin sculpture

[markmcevoy]

Yours truly

[warakami-vaporwave]

The 84 Series

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[monstermonger]

oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!

[taylornprice]

nighttime sketchbook scribbles

[taylornprice]

red pen / pink marker

[mfjrr]

water lilies by Claude Monet

[lizlemondyke]

I think this is my favorite poem.

[inkskinned]

because i love you like that. lining the baking sheet to make cookies for your parents. putting aside a cutting of my spider plant since your friend mentioned he might want one. dressed up today even though i only am gonna see you.

not good at other stuff. brain like a blender. once actually i told my mom that it's like riding a surfboard through a tornado: no matter how many flowers i plant, i find the storm coming again on the horizon, whipping up my past into my present. everything becomes a cyclone in a moment. don't know if i did my taxes right; forgot to pack my hairbrush. i'm always forgetting something, actually. rarely ever do i get my work done 100% right; there's always a double-space or a missed comma. not your dog in a fight, i'd probably cry.

but i love you like i wrote you a poem at three in the morning. i love you like your favorite brand of gingerale is always stocked. i made sure to get the pickles you like too; even though i never remember to offer. i love you like your birthday isn't even for another month and i've already made three alternative plans (weather permitting); your gift's already wrapped in a corner.

love you like: give me the wheel i'll drive, you look tired. like: actually yeah why don't you play music, your taste is better. like: you go take a nap, i got this. like: let me make you dinner. like: i already organized everything, it's set to go whenever. like: let me carry that. like: if there's something i can do to make your life better today, i'm going to do it, always. like: okay i lied i did want the last few bites but you were so hungry and this sacrifice is an honor.

giggling and with your hair in a fan on my pillow, you told me that you're going to build me the house of my dreams. low voice, glowing like a moonbeam. angel girl. foxkit. sole proprietor of my heart: my home is wherever you're gonna be.

[puppygirldick]

Viktor Lyapkalo Artwork: 'Blowing bubbles' & 'Evening' Painted 9 years apart.

Same woman

[stellernorth]

haiku of despair