funeral for store brand whole grain

Funeral for Store Brand Whole Grainby Shady Rose I’m just going to get rid of a fuck ton of stuff right now instead of holding onto it forever saying I’ll donate it I just donated most of my clothes and shoes and whatever they probably don’t need the random half-broken shit lying around my house […]

Home Maker

by Shady Rose July 2021 If you sleep easy and breathe lightlyYou feel clean and dry and softIf green things flourish in every corner of your eye You count each thing that is your very ownYou release all ownership and set down wanting Look at what you’ve made for yourself!All cobbled together from things found […]

Sleeping Dogs (excerpt)

Lights up suddenly on Hakima, dressed in torn white rags and spattered with crimson. Her arms are spread at her sides, held carefully so as not to touch her own body. She is shaking and dissociated. After a painful, long pause, she speaks. HAKIMA; Too long ago I was a swaddling babeRememb’ring now I think […]

The Real Deal

The other night I sat out in the way-back of my friend’s house and watched the night fall. All At Once there were hundreds of fireflies, maybe thousands of them in the trees surging up from within the infant dark. We couldn’t see the trees, only the inky black and their lights flashing rapidly, brilliantly, […]

the hole

it is because of you that I have taken up shovel and spade and hoe and scraped and speared the ground until I began to sink into it deep, deep, until I began to sink into it and the rain has begun to fall and the rain has begun to fall and I have dug […]

hungry, so hungry

I crave a field I crave a field so huge I’m terrified to wade across its face I crave a field at night with warm breeze and fireflies with warm breeze that hums and sighs in under my skirt kisses my calves, thighs, cunt and draws in a dry, cool lightning storm and my heart […]