wolf down the words

poetry, prose, art, fanboying, feminism, lgbtqia+, and then some.

[wolfdownthewords]

there: another

ghost made holy

by absence

[catadromously]

the kids aren’t cooked, you just need to hang out with them in the woods.

[catadromously]

I mean you meet these young people trapped in their classrooms or nuclear families in paved over neighborhoods, you are going to see them at the lowest points of forced routine, atomization, gutted autonomy, academic stress, you are going to see them at their worst. you’re going to see addictive behavior. bad social skills. lashing out. uncreativity. laziness and distraction. they do look totally cooked.

you need to take them into the woods

I do outdoor education work, and within minutes of any elementary to middle schooler getting free permission to mess around with their friends in a clearing, they’re curious and driven again. they’re asking each other questions and yeeting pinecones at trees (science) and using their bodies. sometimes for evil. as is developmentally right. they want to know the names of birds! they want to teach someone pokemon! they want to build stuff and kick stuff and tackle each other and you into the snow!

they’re basically fucking institutionalized for 90% of their lives but their spirits are alive. you need to take them into the woods you need to treat them like animals with powerful inner lives and they’ll show you they are.

and you, if you feel like you’re relating too much, remember that you can also take YOURSELF to the woods

[jacebeleren]

i think love is about finding people to be in the kitchen with

[wolfdownthewords]

how often

have i wished myself

out of waking?

[wolfdownthewords]

I am too old and broken for such things

but I want you

and your scent of strawberries

on the tip

of my tongue

[wolfdownthewords]

was there a time

when this emptiness

was easier?

when 'on your own head be it'

didn't sound homicidal?

because we all know dying

happens slowly, even if

the blow is instant.

it takes time to be written

out of people's stories,

one

word

at a

time.

[wolfdownthewords]

souls grow reaching towards light

[wolfdownthewords]

This arrived today (amid a pre-language assessment panic)! I am excited to read @smakkabagms new book!!!

[smakkabagms]

hi friends just a wee little reminder that I have a book out and about in the world :)

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[weltenwellen]

An Interview with Richard Siken

[wolfdownthewords]

i leap from one sinking

ship to another, hoping

to find land.

[vaninnavaninni]

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 16 June 1313)

[wolfdownthewords]

let me evaporate into rain again

[wolfdownthewords]

there are so many words

at my fingertips,

lingering on my tongue,

but none fit well enough to help me

when you smile.

[wolfdownthewords]

this language is all earth and softness

[wolfdownthewords]

silence, my old friend,

would you even recognise me anymore?