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Ghetto Dandy, Flatbush, NYC | Ph: Eloise Parry |

Stylist: Akeem Smith

May. pistachios and rose water. leaving the house without a jacket for the first time. a new writing routine, pages stiff with bullet point-scribbles. rain-dripping chestnut blossoms. Nabokov. white tea with rose petals. first hopeful hints of summer florals, of jasmine, ylang ylang and orange blossoms. lunch in the park. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek. reading obsessively – sinking into daydreams, the warm comfort of nonfiction, letting poetry melt on my tongue. rosy-warm evenings after dance class. capturing fleeting moments of happiness and pressing them between pages of my journal.

I will not accept a life I do not deserve.

Donyale Luna on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1966.

How many times have I remembered?

Rita Donagh

Alexa Demie for Interview Magazine, 2019 | Ph by Alana O'Herlihy