Archive - the animal eats

A beehive here inside my heart

I sat outside late one morning and saw a billion birds, now it's everyone's problem. Plus some advice for the shifting season, and a poem Molly sent me.

Sep 1 •

July 2024

No strange bird sings alone

Learning to bring birds close, use water wisely, stay loving, stay screaming, lose my mind a little each day to keep from losing it a lot at once. Plus…

Jul 28 •

May 2024

My heart a bird's heart

It’s very nearly the middle of another year on earth, my god, time keeps on coming. I hope you’re held together. I hope you can look at the months…

May 19 •

This is the shape of the world

We only get so many hours on earth. A finch laid five eggs. I write my poems and try to spend my time wisely while we wait for the world to get good.

May 5 •

4:27

April 2024

The burning world

On bearing witness to atrocity, (para)social death, fearless futures, and three poems by Krista Franklin, Faisal Mohyuddin, and Mathias Svalina.

Apr 7 •

3:46

March 2024

I know the earth is laughing

There is despair here, audacity too, and hope beyond belief. Also a bunch of recently published poems.

Mar 10 •

February 2024

I am writing with both hands

I seen a new bird and I talk to myself. No surprises, just suggestions, plus a poem by Franz Wright.

Feb 4 •

January 2024

This we'd call a life

Remember, you're an animal. And one day, maybe, you'll be food.

Jan 21 •

December 2023

When the world is flowers

I watched a bee die and did what I could. I listen to poets and give what I can. In this case it's two very short poems about possums.

Dec 10, 2023 •

November 2023

We salvage ourselves

Recommendations for living. Also twelve questions, one bird, and two poems.

Nov 19, 2023 •

September 2023

These hands that have always held you

I begin a new decade overcome with love. Everything keeps on happening. One thousand hugs and gorgeous evenings. Also some new work in the world.

Sep 24, 2023 •

Never ate so many stars

A benediction asking Everything, the only god I know, to take care of a friend I never held, and of me, and everyone else. Also a poem that haunts me…

Sep 3, 2023 •

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