Opening party for the third annual Picture Room multiples sale is 8/24, from 7-9pm! Up through the 31st with a special closing event 🍂ty as always to my lucky star @milahlibin for your help making it happen 🌝🍀
Attend here!
Wrote a Vampire Diaries diary for the beautiful third issue of @dizzymag 📓Launch party tonight at Entrance from 5-8pm!
I made some necklaces for the latest Café forgot pop up, opening today, 4-9pm and available through the 14th! 🐞170A Suffolk Street NY 🐞
Hallow roll 🌙
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Glasses for Three Weeks
Encounter a smile
That isn’t a sitting curve
Not wasted on inoffensive defenses and
Empty wrinkles
Turned upside-down
Laying on my back
So my face doesn’t fall off
Adaptable Amphibian
Skin stretched over the subway pole
Spread out and webbed
Suction cups sticking
To the memory of a messy child
Prepared for when the car fills up with water
And everyone turns green as I swim away
The second-best at breaststroke
Gently down the stream
Imitation is the highest form of flattery
But envy shows the claws
Like the cat that ate the head but left the legs
For my socks to absorb
Toes to wiggle in
Eyes swelling
I could outrun anyone underwater
Unless they cut off my limbs
And serve them on a silver platter
And when they ask their guests
What are your plans for tomorrow night?
They are really asking
What should I do tomorrow night?
An elaborate plan
A grand scheme
When it all goes dark
Life is but a dream
The Secret Life of Pearls
Feeling like it’s a great day for LASIK
With tearless eyes and a pile of sliced onions
On the chopping block
At the crest of a wave
Slicing the air with my uncut hair
As I tumble under
Disrupting the salt water
Add a little pepper
I’m an irritant to the sea
Smoothed out by seaweed
Soaked until tender
Spat out at boil
A pearl of a girl
Life-size mouse trap
Shadow bugs from the rain cross my thigh
too quick to catch the car keeps moving
Speeding up or slowing down
It’s hard to tell without a window open
These cars need heels!
Not espadrilles!
Stilettos and kittens
Pump puppies and peep-toes
A way to break the intimate synchronization of pace
With an aural urgency or a sleepy staccato
If Nancy doesn’t say, “it’s locked” then you know it’s too easy
Or something is very wrong
Everything feels more sinister with a trap down the hall
“Don’t pet the hand that bites you”
“Don’t pet the hand that bites you”
Plucking and cutting the pink string thread of a daddy long legs
I stitch out the words:
“Three tears for the mouse!”
And everyone survives for another night because the knot tied itself