how to tell the future with animals

secrets make friends

ADYTUM is what the Greeks called a secret hiding place. I am sitting under a huge pine in the ravine. There is a smell of sap and the branches dip down to the ground on all sides, casting long dark shadows.

The light falling through the needles is the light of daydreams. If secrets had color they would probably be this same deep marine, shot through with visionary gleams.

"Not all sunshine," he says, and then runs his thumb in a gentle stroke along the arch of my eyebrow. He's the kind of person who would know the technical reasons for a rainbow, the square roots of peculiar numbers, how to gather water from the cupped leaves of island plants. Someone you'd like to have with you on a lifeboat.

we're gathered here in reverence

except it's opposites day.

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i walked in on a plan to dissolve all of your wishes

but i couldn’t help your mouth which i missed by just two inches

maybe i thought that you and i could run away alongside

but i didn’t understand i was a cold tear in your eye

it's just that the other person involved simply can't see the forest for the trees

when i'm with you, i have fun

im ready for spring/summer in a major way. new boys, new love, new dresses, new hugs, champagne, lazy days in the park, coming home at sunrise, mint ice tea . . all of it.

my grandma and your grandma, were sittin' by the fire

my grandma told your grandma, im gonna set your flag on fire

that's when i realized, i would never hear from him again.