Volume 11
January 2024 - February 2024
“Caught in a kneeling position, I focus on the sky, its wisping clouds and veiled sun.”
“The folded hands of a marble statue, the still chest of a toppled goliath, a jumble of broken doll parts.”
“No. You are inquiring about a mixed commodity. There’s a premium to the pricing.”
“Only a paper body, two dimensional which i fold up / when u don’t call”
“It all begins to flow together in time and space. It’s like a symphony but I’m not really good at musical stuff”
“When your florets reach my neck I see the sun inside my mirror”
“Saffron says the father transitioned into the mother, in the same tone she tells everyone that Butterfly went to private school and Greg eats dairy in secret.”
“If you call me a warrior, what of my bad days? Am I no longer strong?”
“And my feet take me where i need to go instead of the men’s section where i’d like to be.”
“We decided what an ugly thing must need is to be touched by the sun - as we all do.”
“I’ll scatter the red berries, let them be like the feathers of a cardinal”
“Heat lightning strikes the prairie. Another node appears.”
“I Had To Quit Sports Because of Chronic Illness but it Didn’t Matter Because I Wasn’t Very Good”
— Josie Cressler, Volumes 1-4, Volumes 5-8