"Vampires" By Takato Yamamoto

Wonderful

Jim Woodring

Hard to swallow truth pills

Everyone you dislike is not a narcissist.

Every unpleasant experience is not trauma. Having needs does not make you codependent. Disagreement is not gaslighting. Conflict is not abuse. Taking offense is not being triggered.

Castel Savoia, Belvedere, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy

the hawthorn-white rose of understood melancholic faith,

primitively exuding the lactational scarlet liquid of death:

markings etched upon rhinestones as symbolic offering,

misaligned & mismanaged, the depth of human psyche,

shortcomings of tortuously soulful repetitions of envy,

copper rewiring embedded within crystalline calamity,

marble woven fabric draped over the faces of angels;

for healing is found within the harsh reality of nature.

Dope

O California, dark, shaken, broken hills, bright fog reaching over the beaches, madrone and digger pine and valley oak, I’m your dryhearted daughter. I listened when the earthquake spoke and learned what the quail teaches. The stony bed the rain of winter fills waited all year for the water.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Incredible Good Fortune’