lower part of newspaper page; “monarch butterflies drop 59% this year. world wildlife blame climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially use of pesticides in united states killing off the monarch’s main food source, milkweed” —156 words total. below this; “violence against women increasing in middle east”— 43 words total. african milkweed california milkweed cedar hill milkweed common milkweed blunt-leaved milkweed’ butterfly weed desert milkweed four-leaved milkweed green milkweed heart-leaf milkweed horsetail milkweed indian paintbrush leafless milkweed longleaf milkweed mead’s milkweed mojave milkweed narrow leaf milkweed pallid milkweed pineland milkweed pine needle milkweed pleurisy milkweed poke milkweed red milkweed rush milkweed…
writings
From May, 2024
05.12.2024
dreamers: you be a girl with a pile of white bones and teeth. a shape resembling antlers entangled in there too your heap is coming undone crumbling as skeletons in the desert you be a girl having conversations with your bone-heap, asking childish questions like; “why are we alone” or “does a whale have ribs?” cause you keep dreaming you have this whale-rib wand you tell the heap you are afraid the lump in your chest is the tip of a deeper, diving issue that perhaps all your inner oceans are contaminated you tell the heap you dream of the…
05.04.2024
–my name is daughter
05.03.2024
the beach the beach is lovely in early morningsfew people, so the birds are active heavy container ships glides by out in the strait