Author Archives: Harriett Van Os

thursday

ma sweet madame,
thankful your letter finds me after months of solace on the sea. what i wander for a coolin’ breeze, to wash some want off. alack, i’m still a fish, even in this fever. pray your walls’ve a more smoothin’ texture.
consider what we might call, to gods or friends, the words we defile with [...]

PLUOTS!

candy of the scientist-gods.

go ‘head and get you some.

ahh, rain

“Now that we’re alone we can talk prince man to man” -Zbigniew Herbert
i got up early this morning, i’d thrown the covers and caught a chill. found two poems slidin’ about.
My crooked hands shake
something unreasonable.
I can see them
roasting on glowing coals.
I don’t take them out.
I am always cold.
I am always letting off everything
[...]

night four

i miss the rain. i’m findin’ myself in a new space that’s saying all sorta things to me. i know that’s odd, but the walls jus’ want to tell me about everyone they known. hope they won’t find much to ever say about me.
the rain works jus’ like a man, like company, at drainin’ out [...]

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