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Suzanne Purkis
@hypoxia75.bsky.social
Editor, writer, poet, science nerd. Principal dog wrangler. Head of spider relocation services. Definitely not an alien. 🛸
You think
that you’re so clever
sneaking in
through a loophole
and hiding in plain sight

but I’ve had your number
for a while now
and the hounds were released
the moment you crossed
my threshold

#vss365 #poetry #number
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Koji wants you to come out and play in the snow ❄️
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
everything you love
everything you hate
every place that holds a memory
every law ever decreed
every mistake
every mystery
every perfect thing
is fleeting

so hold on tight
to the ones you love
and stop wasting
the fleeting time
that you've been gifted
on regret

#vss365 #law #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The geography of you
is shifting
sharp cliffs giving way
to rolling hills
shallow streams burbling
into deep lakes
with complex ecosystems
and your hard ground
morphing into moss
so soft beneath my feet
that I could linger here
forever

#vss365 #geography #poetry
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If I could sum up us
to fit neatly in a nutshell
I couldn’t say that it’s been fun
exactly
but it has been educational

How else could I have learned
the full range of human emotions
that were programmed into
my heart

or the vastly different
definitions
we held for each of them

#vss365 #education
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
“If your heart is beating really strong and fast, and you’re in a fear state, you don’t want to be sensitive to pain. You want to be able to run over broken twigs and glass to escape the threat,” said neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel. www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-hea...
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ripley complaining to the management about why tea has to happen before walking.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
I need
I need to
I need to press the key

The one you cannot read
The one you will not see
The one you disbelieve
defines you

DO NOT TOUCH

your eyes plead

But the need
creeps up my fingers

Straining my restraint

Your hands seize
with hope

#vss365 #creep
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Happy almost Halloween! 🎃
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
She is standing
in the maelstrom
screaming
fists balled at her side
toes curled
into the creeping thyme
beneath her

She is always here
even when
she's somewhere else

There is comfort
in the driving rain
and in the way
the wind
carries her scream
into the heart
of the universe

#vss365 #creep
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When I found myself
on a precipice
of someone else’s making
(your making)
the terror was nearly suffocating

Choosing between
bad and worse
(the only choices you left me)
I closed my eyes
and jumped

#vss365 #terror #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Lolsob
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!
Pretty porcelain pots available on www.roseschmits.com
Worldwide safe shipping available!
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Don't normalize fascism.
With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
There is a way to do this
so it’s perfect:
- boiling water
- leaves from Yorkshire
- a handful of runes
- that art deco cup and saucer
- and one sugar cube
to ensure that her ghost
makes it to your tea party

#vss365 #saucer #poetry
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Flowers for autumn 🍂🍁

#orangeflowers #autumnisthebest
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Over in the corner
my heart
slides down the wall
to land
unceremoniously
at your feet
its rhythmic beauty
reduced
to so much
unrecognizable
pulp

#vss365 #pulp #poetry
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Who's a beautiful old man?

(Koji is!)
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
See what we can do when we work together to fight Nazis. This is beautiful.
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Ripley, ever hopeful that teenage visitors are here exclusively to shower her with love.

#AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the event horizon were nigh
would the weight
of knowing
crush you
into apathy
and dust

Or would it reinvigorate
your passion
to be caught
in my gravity
until the end
of space and time

#vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
Why must you take home another boring rock
they said

Your assembly line is backed up

Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions
collecting dust
just like all of us

I hold it close
Knowing they lie

There is no die

Proof pressed in my palm
of
a
singular
life

#vss365 #poetry #extrusion
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The crows came to roost
on the day you were born
no longer an extrusion of me
but an entirety of you
with all your complex parts—
hands of an engineer
heart of a crow
soul of a philosopher king
—working together
like the world’s most precise
clock
or a roost of crows
in winter

#vss365 #extrusion
September 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM