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golden afternoon

i hope i can be tender again that my singing bruises fade to yellow grazes from kneeling on false steeples scab over ruptured muscles torn in two can be sutured the broken bones of my ribcage mend marrow born anew powdered gold dusted over my frailty ASW // june 2026

arcane/ward

when we were girls we were taught that if you just loved the beast enough, looked past the dripping fangs, the claws curled around a heart you were certain was good beneath it all - if you held a little more faith, stayed soft enough, malleable enough, resilient enough - that the spell he was under would be broken and you would live long enough to see the beast become the man you were promised; your reward for loving so blindly and wildly - and so i drank my poison like a good little miss every last d r o p we're feigning fables now, but not really. it's a tale as old as time. so we sit in our gilded cages and carriages of copper and wait. wait while the beast clips our wings, and the bars that once kept us safe, the bars we mistook for devotion, now hold us captive. until the clock strikes midnight and the carriage remembers it was always a pumpkin, while you're standing in a pool of your own blood, cutting your feet on the same glass slippers you were once all too willing to wear.

and you cannot be surprised when the fairy tale buries you in a shallow grave.

because he showed you who he was from the beginning.

the teeth were not a curse.

the claws were not a hex.

the beast was not waiting to be loved into becoming human. the beast was never waiting to be saved. there was no spell. only you.

erasure season

it's been a whole month without you and i panicked and I S C R E A M E D and i cried and i lost sleep and i didn't shower and i tried to eat and i skipped songs and i questioned you, me, us and i doubted what was real and i came undone and i wondered how you could be so cold and i walked to the end of my driveway and i threw away pieces of you and i reached F O R Y O U but you can't search for solace in the arms of the one who betrayed you ASW // july 2026

ASW // june 2026 inspired by @luminote🌻

i think of you in colours that don't exist

seeds of doubt once fed the bittersweet of winter beneath a place we longed to be

spring came and the ground thawed suddenly poems bloomed and words meant something again

it felt safe to plant roots sunflowers rose to face dawn we swore by the cosmos and called one another home

summer solstice filled the air the framework of our existence quenching an epicurean thirst discovering a secret language by the dusk

fall flooded the gutters and drains tripping over the ivy we once grew together slowly being strangled by fear ripping at chicory we thought were weeds

when the fog settles and the ground seems barren there we'll be despite it all love still lives here

you and i are tethered until we are together dandelions won't grow and wishes go to waste

we'll be as old as birch trees at the top of a hill surrounded by leaves your hand in mine ASW // may 2026

sweet alyssum

a cropped button-up daisy-printed shirt an unfettered heart beneath, a pair of high waisted denim jeans filled out by genes, a black leather belt with a three-piece silver buckle, anchored lover in the loops, a finger or two twirling fine blonde tousled hair when i'm caught off guard, a kiss on the forehead, an unspoken language, a heart-shaped ring of filigree and silver, mori pressed to gossamer skin,

a mason jar with the finest honeysuckle, dabbed in sacred places meant for another,

a dream to pin hopes on, and hands behind closed doors, a queen sized bed much too small, and my pugs snoring at my feet,

a sister, a daughter, a niece, an aunty, a red tree, and a poppy to keep it safe, a mind stuttering on time and stamps, always reaching for constellations,

a shot at the night, i'm once in a lifetime.

ASW // july 2026

love to me feels like

bringing me sunflowers

a kiss on the forehead

a touch on my waist

reaching for my hand

a promise kept

fingers in my hair

a song to share

time spent

calling me by my name

to be known ASW // october 2021

solstice

in the cadence of night willing hands give way and break the threshold velvet soft i can feel it on my skin a silver screen in my minds eye ASW // august 2021