Cottage in the Woods
@cottageinwood.bsky.social
🌙 Joel. Reviewer, poet, artist, chef, and Forest Monster from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Poems in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, Semaphore, Aotearoa Yearbook, Eunoia Review, and Stone Circle.
2nd place for the 2025 Muriel's Journey Prize.
Poems in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, Semaphore, Aotearoa Yearbook, Eunoia Review, and Stone Circle.
2nd place for the 2025 Muriel's Journey Prize.
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📚 My 2025 Reading List: A bookish adventure of woods, monsters, folklore, cosmic horrors, and magic. 📚
Reducing a sauce on the stove, and have a few minutes, so ask me anything. Topics may include, but are not limited to, baking, demonology, online dating, tea leaves, and how to murder your husband.
a close up of a woman making a funny face
ALT: a close up of a woman making a funny face
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Reducing a sauce on the stove, and have a few minutes, so ask me anything. Topics may include, but are not limited to, baking, demonology, online dating, tea leaves, and how to murder your husband.
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It’s never too late to start over. Even if it feels far away, little steps forward matter. You haven’t missed your chance - even if it looks different from what you once wanted. You can still find love, happiness, fulfillment, purpose.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s never too late to start over. Even if it feels far away, little steps forward matter. You haven’t missed your chance - even if it looks different from what you once wanted. You can still find love, happiness, fulfillment, purpose.
Days off are for baking, foraging wild herbs, cleaning linen, and dreaming of becoming a pirate 🥧 🌿
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Days off are for baking, foraging wild herbs, cleaning linen, and dreaming of becoming a pirate 🥧 🌿
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so I was going back through old files and I try not to jerk off in the mirror too much about my own work but I really was touched by the noodly hand of the muse here
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
so I was going back through old files and I try not to jerk off in the mirror too much about my own work but I really was touched by the noodly hand of the muse here
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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "There’s a guy in my friend’s group chat whose texts about making plans always get ignored" by Zoe Reay-Ellers (@zreayellers.bsky.social)
stonecirclereview.com/theres-a-guy/
stonecirclereview.com/theres-a-guy/
There’s a guy in my friend’s group chat whose texts about making plans always get ignored
by Zoe Reay-Ellers
And I want to send him Siken,
send him Detail of the Woods.
He speaks abrasively and often,
scared the words are going to fly
away like any good bird
at cold, any bad showerer
at...
stonecirclereview.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "There’s a guy in my friend’s group chat whose texts about making plans always get ignored" by Zoe Reay-Ellers (@zreayellers.bsky.social)
stonecirclereview.com/theres-a-guy/
stonecirclereview.com/theres-a-guy/
"There is a reason there have never been and never will be mass trials of vulnerable, impoverished men who can be accused of supernatural crimes and put to death without evidemce."
Wait... weren't tens of thousands of men killed for the crime of witchcraft? I'm confused.
Wait... weren't tens of thousands of men killed for the crime of witchcraft? I'm confused.
Witches of Essex review – Rylan’s look at real-life witch trials treats us like idiots
The X Factor star and Prof Alice Roberts are an awkward presenting duo in this superficial history show. Do they really think we’re so thick we can’t imagine the mindset of people from the past?
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"There is a reason there have never been and never will be mass trials of vulnerable, impoverished men who can be accused of supernatural crimes and put to death without evidemce."
Wait... weren't tens of thousands of men killed for the crime of witchcraft? I'm confused.
Wait... weren't tens of thousands of men killed for the crime of witchcraft? I'm confused.
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the best poetry is as much magic as art, or, how john wieners said it, "poets are under magical orders"
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
the best poetry is as much magic as art, or, how john wieners said it, "poets are under magical orders"
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oh yeah! Happy Indigenous People's Day!!
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
oh yeah! Happy Indigenous People's Day!!
ME: Ok I'm done writing sad boy poems, let's write something inspiring!
*montage of me writing, skipping in meadows, laughing while eating salad, quirky folk music plays*
ME: *reading my new poem about that time a straight friend kissed me and then we never spoke again*
ME: ...
ME: Gawdammit.
*montage of me writing, skipping in meadows, laughing while eating salad, quirky folk music plays*
ME: *reading my new poem about that time a straight friend kissed me and then we never spoke again*
ME: ...
ME: Gawdammit.
October 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ME: Ok I'm done writing sad boy poems, let's write something inspiring!
*montage of me writing, skipping in meadows, laughing while eating salad, quirky folk music plays*
ME: *reading my new poem about that time a straight friend kissed me and then we never spoke again*
ME: ...
ME: Gawdammit.
*montage of me writing, skipping in meadows, laughing while eating salad, quirky folk music plays*
ME: *reading my new poem about that time a straight friend kissed me and then we never spoke again*
ME: ...
ME: Gawdammit.
Books with playlists are already suspect, but books with playlists that include anything by Lana del Ray deserve as much side-eye as humanly possible without giving oneself a tension headache.
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Books with playlists are already suspect, but books with playlists that include anything by Lana del Ray deserve as much side-eye as humanly possible without giving oneself a tension headache.
Writing poems on my lunch break, because killing your co-workers is wrong.
October 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Writing poems on my lunch break, because killing your co-workers is wrong.
🌸 Celebrating Spring with my first breakfast of asparagus, poached eggs, avo, and homemade brown bread 🌼
October 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🌸 Celebrating Spring with my first breakfast of asparagus, poached eggs, avo, and homemade brown bread 🌼
For Halloween, I'm dressing up as that deep pit of writhing in your stomach moments before you have to stand up and do a Public Speaking Thing and your palms are sticky and gross and you might need to find a loo quickly, suddenly, out of nowhere, even though you already went.
For Halloween, I'm dressing up as going to a social function where the one person you know disappears and you don't know who to talk to and there are no dogs or cats around to pet and all the conversations you overhear seem inscrutable.
October 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For Halloween, I'm dressing up as that deep pit of writhing in your stomach moments before you have to stand up and do a Public Speaking Thing and your palms are sticky and gross and you might need to find a loo quickly, suddenly, out of nowhere, even though you already went.
Ok, now, see, right, THIS is what I've been saying!
Leo: Instead of fixating on your own flaws, turn that magnifying glass onto other people. Use sunlight to incinerate them like the disgusting insects they are.
October 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ok, now, see, right, THIS is what I've been saying!
People have 'hot takes' because they don't have deep thoughts. Every time someone begins a post with "Some of y'all aren't ready to hear this..." they proceed with stating the most basic ass thing that has ever been uttered by a sentient lifeform.
October 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
People have 'hot takes' because they don't have deep thoughts. Every time someone begins a post with "Some of y'all aren't ready to hear this..." they proceed with stating the most basic ass thing that has ever been uttered by a sentient lifeform.
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🖼️ Bernhard Anton Funke
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🖼️ Bernhard Anton Funke
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Lady Mouse in Mob Cap
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
October 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Lady Mouse in Mob Cap
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Wet, wild, stormy day. Feels like the universe is telling me I need to go find an old pub with a roaring fireplace, drink stout, and listen to an Irish music session. 🌩
October 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Wet, wild, stormy day. Feels like the universe is telling me I need to go find an old pub with a roaring fireplace, drink stout, and listen to an Irish music session. 🌩
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NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King
"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"
stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/
#Poem #Poetry
"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"
stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/
#Poem #Poetry
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King
"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"
stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/
#Poem #Poetry
"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"
stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/
#Poem #Poetry
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But a tree isn't limited to how it is useful to humans. Every tree is a home for wildlife, a warrior against climate change, a healer of the earth, a survivor of epochs, a story protector, a kind aunt and uncle, and a food bank for dozens of species in difficult times.
September 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
But a tree isn't limited to how it is useful to humans. Every tree is a home for wildlife, a warrior against climate change, a healer of the earth, a survivor of epochs, a story protector, a kind aunt and uncle, and a food bank for dozens of species in difficult times.
Writing tip: pull out old stories and/or poems from years ago and give them a tweak. You don't know it yet, but you've grown. 🖊
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Writing tip: pull out old stories and/or poems from years ago and give them a tweak. You don't know it yet, but you've grown. 🖊
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New theme lands tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Don’t post early—Friday to Thursday only. Give the mess its moment. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Get sharp prompts sent direct: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New theme lands tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Don’t post early—Friday to Thursday only. Give the mess its moment. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Get sharp prompts sent direct: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Forget Hot Girl Summer, it's time for Unspeakable Horror That Lives in the Woods Autumn.
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Forget Hot Girl Summer, it's time for Unspeakable Horror That Lives in the Woods Autumn.
Unfamiliar view from a new home office, this rougarou has a new hunting ground...
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Unfamiliar view from a new home office, this rougarou has a new hunting ground...