kingdomsinthewild

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“From distance, I swallow the rain down to its slowest blade and still can’t / tell if I am the thinned silver of God’s fallen tongue or its bloody song.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, from “Sifar,” published in jubilat

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“Some days, a body grows like a cornflower in wheat fields where crows bend into melted knife-handles. We pass a way and the distance broadcasts its snowy whims in the shape of a tousled bedsheet.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, Viraha (Originally Published in Entropy)

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“How to detour your triggers? The post in post-traumatic stress disorder is unchaperoned, open to shelling at all times. This whole season is a wound-broken animal rubbing its bloodied hooves against the wired fence of a borderline.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, from “SSRI Love You (Inconvenience Regretted),” published in Burning House Press

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“Differential diagnosis. Meaning your pain labours under a pseudonym. Meaning something is hunting you from within with a wolfpack of newly readied teeth.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, “Anatomy-II” (Published in ANMLY Lit)

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“Like any unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee, from ‘Lonely’, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

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“magic rising from / a man is prophesy / from / a woman is heresy / maybe he leaves me / a purloin of unsung fires”

— Scherezade Siobhan, from ‘echo’ (Published in Petrichor Journal)

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "To Julia de Burgos"

[Text ID: "in all my poems I undress my heart."]

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

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Traces of memories (2022)

Another piece featuring my tulip OC :D

When I was younger tulips never occured to me as anything special, but they´ve really grown on me the past few years. They´re such simplistic, yet uniquely shaped flowers!

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Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems; “Passion Fish”

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The first single from The Tortured Poets Department is…………. Fortnight featuring @postmalone 🤍 I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever. I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight. Honestly can’t wait for you guys to hear this song at Midnight TONIGHT and see the video at 8pm ET TOMORROW.

forafortnight.com

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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]

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“Break often - not like porcelain, but like waves.”

— Scherezade Siobhan

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here, your name; ghost and god - / a rosary i recite with teeth.

Scherezade Siobhan - 'come palabra,' Father, Husband

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“Yours: advocacy Mine: disobedience Yours: respectable curiosity Mine: material illiteracy Yours: self-care Mine: ego”

— Scherezade Siobhan, Cast(e)ing the dye (Published in Poetry At Sangam)

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”