Erithacus
@erithacus-poet.bsky.social
Poet, writer, woodsman, photographer and if that wasn't enough... Autistic.
Tell me if my heart stops
My little hallucinogen
Love me or love me not
It's not my time to take
Trying not to keep you away
My little phantasm
Neurotoxin eyes
Cover me with leaves
In a cloying grip
My little cordyceps
And I'm trying
Barely arms length away
But I'm barely awake... these days
My little hallucinogen
Love me or love me not
It's not my time to take
Trying not to keep you away
My little phantasm
Neurotoxin eyes
Cover me with leaves
In a cloying grip
My little cordyceps
And I'm trying
Barely arms length away
But I'm barely awake... these days
October 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Tell me if my heart stops
My little hallucinogen
Love me or love me not
It's not my time to take
Trying not to keep you away
My little phantasm
Neurotoxin eyes
Cover me with leaves
In a cloying grip
My little cordyceps
And I'm trying
Barely arms length away
But I'm barely awake... these days
My little hallucinogen
Love me or love me not
It's not my time to take
Trying not to keep you away
My little phantasm
Neurotoxin eyes
Cover me with leaves
In a cloying grip
My little cordyceps
And I'm trying
Barely arms length away
But I'm barely awake... these days
I always wished I could draw
A ragged notebook, a 2B pencil
Recording your upturned face
Eyes reflecting the #starscape
Instead I commit to memory
And write insufficient words
#vss365
A ragged notebook, a 2B pencil
Recording your upturned face
Eyes reflecting the #starscape
Instead I commit to memory
And write insufficient words
#vss365
June 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I always wished I could draw
A ragged notebook, a 2B pencil
Recording your upturned face
Eyes reflecting the #starscape
Instead I commit to memory
And write insufficient words
#vss365
A ragged notebook, a 2B pencil
Recording your upturned face
Eyes reflecting the #starscape
Instead I commit to memory
And write insufficient words
#vss365
Take it to the Grave
April 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Take it to the Grave
Words
that sink through my ribs
That climb my bronchial trees
Swim arterial rivers
Until my heart ...
Where they break in and reside
#poetry
My 📸
that sink through my ribs
That climb my bronchial trees
Swim arterial rivers
Until my heart ...
Where they break in and reside
#poetry
My 📸
March 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Words
that sink through my ribs
That climb my bronchial trees
Swim arterial rivers
Until my heart ...
Where they break in and reside
#poetry
My 📸
that sink through my ribs
That climb my bronchial trees
Swim arterial rivers
Until my heart ...
Where they break in and reside
#poetry
My 📸
March 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
March 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thursday, I was a passenger. We came across a mortally injured mallard duck on the road, severe head injury, wings trying to take off. I had to end the suffering. I was accidentally ran over by the car, breaking my foot. We both lay on the tarmac, beating our wings.
#vss365
#vss365
March 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Thursday, I was a passenger. We came across a mortally injured mallard duck on the road, severe head injury, wings trying to take off. I had to end the suffering. I was accidentally ran over by the car, breaking my foot. We both lay on the tarmac, beating our wings.
#vss365
#vss365
February 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
February 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Boy With The Amazing Jumper
TW for SA
TW for SA
February 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Boy With The Amazing Jumper
TW for SA
TW for SA
Soot cloaked dreams
Winched from the well
By the waning moon
Escaping into dawn
With pipistrelle quiver
A burning on the retina
And a fading ephemera
with each quiet minute
#vss365
Winched from the well
By the waning moon
Escaping into dawn
With pipistrelle quiver
A burning on the retina
And a fading ephemera
with each quiet minute
#vss365
January 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Soot cloaked dreams
Winched from the well
By the waning moon
Escaping into dawn
With pipistrelle quiver
A burning on the retina
And a fading ephemera
with each quiet minute
#vss365
Winched from the well
By the waning moon
Escaping into dawn
With pipistrelle quiver
A burning on the retina
And a fading ephemera
with each quiet minute
#vss365
Gave you a heart to break
as you saw fit, you flew
punched a hole in the sky
left me to entropy's will
with "All I Need" on repeat
I'll know when I see my grave
beneath field or ice of the lake
#vss365
as you saw fit, you flew
punched a hole in the sky
left me to entropy's will
with "All I Need" on repeat
I'll know when I see my grave
beneath field or ice of the lake
#vss365
January 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Gave you a heart to break
as you saw fit, you flew
punched a hole in the sky
left me to entropy's will
with "All I Need" on repeat
I'll know when I see my grave
beneath field or ice of the lake
#vss365
as you saw fit, you flew
punched a hole in the sky
left me to entropy's will
with "All I Need" on repeat
I'll know when I see my grave
beneath field or ice of the lake
#vss365
Autistic bliss - New and better headphones 😊
January 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Autistic bliss - New and better headphones 😊
I am not one for resolutions at new year, but I always quietly tell myself to read more.
Autism makes me a slow reader, I am competent - just slow. It can take many weeks for me to read a whole book.
The problem is, I have an enormous amount of books to read. I need time.
#newyear
Autism makes me a slow reader, I am competent - just slow. It can take many weeks for me to read a whole book.
The problem is, I have an enormous amount of books to read. I need time.
#newyear
January 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I am not one for resolutions at new year, but I always quietly tell myself to read more.
Autism makes me a slow reader, I am competent - just slow. It can take many weeks for me to read a whole book.
The problem is, I have an enormous amount of books to read. I need time.
#newyear
Autism makes me a slow reader, I am competent - just slow. It can take many weeks for me to read a whole book.
The problem is, I have an enormous amount of books to read. I need time.
#newyear
I wish you a happy new year.
A stormy night here, the house is at sea - and I have a lot to contemplate.
Keep warm, raise a glass to those we lost, drink to those we love.
A stormy night here, the house is at sea - and I have a lot to contemplate.
Keep warm, raise a glass to those we lost, drink to those we love.
December 31, 2024 at 7:16 PM
I wish you a happy new year.
A stormy night here, the house is at sea - and I have a lot to contemplate.
Keep warm, raise a glass to those we lost, drink to those we love.
A stormy night here, the house is at sea - and I have a lot to contemplate.
Keep warm, raise a glass to those we lost, drink to those we love.
Today is national Robin day - Erithacus rubecula
December 21, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Today is national Robin day - Erithacus rubecula
Solstice morning 💚
December 21, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Solstice morning 💚
Chasing your secrets as they fall from the prettiest of lips
I have no one to tell
Anyway
Somehow you infect -
at a molecular level -
My monochrome opioid dreams
It isn't fair really
holding me
and all the things you'll never know
Between manicured finger and thumb
#vss365
I have no one to tell
Anyway
Somehow you infect -
at a molecular level -
My monochrome opioid dreams
It isn't fair really
holding me
and all the things you'll never know
Between manicured finger and thumb
#vss365
December 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Chasing your secrets as they fall from the prettiest of lips
I have no one to tell
Anyway
Somehow you infect -
at a molecular level -
My monochrome opioid dreams
It isn't fair really
holding me
and all the things you'll never know
Between manicured finger and thumb
#vss365
I have no one to tell
Anyway
Somehow you infect -
at a molecular level -
My monochrome opioid dreams
It isn't fair really
holding me
and all the things you'll never know
Between manicured finger and thumb
#vss365
The stillness,
She studied me
Elderberry eyes reflecting a hoarfrost world
These moments,
A man and a Blackbird,
She has no idea of her importance
Bringing me to resipiscence
We share lunch,
We talk, through looks,
For we do not need words.
Our closed world
#poetry
My 📸
She studied me
Elderberry eyes reflecting a hoarfrost world
These moments,
A man and a Blackbird,
She has no idea of her importance
Bringing me to resipiscence
We share lunch,
We talk, through looks,
For we do not need words.
Our closed world
#poetry
My 📸
December 15, 2024 at 11:57 AM
The stillness,
She studied me
Elderberry eyes reflecting a hoarfrost world
These moments,
A man and a Blackbird,
She has no idea of her importance
Bringing me to resipiscence
We share lunch,
We talk, through looks,
For we do not need words.
Our closed world
#poetry
My 📸
She studied me
Elderberry eyes reflecting a hoarfrost world
These moments,
A man and a Blackbird,
She has no idea of her importance
Bringing me to resipiscence
We share lunch,
We talk, through looks,
For we do not need words.
Our closed world
#poetry
My 📸
But out you fly
Twice the speed of light
With barely a bye
A rip in your tights
At the back of your thigh
Twice the speed of light
With barely a bye
A rip in your tights
At the back of your thigh
December 14, 2024 at 8:47 PM
But out you fly
Twice the speed of light
With barely a bye
A rip in your tights
At the back of your thigh
Twice the speed of light
With barely a bye
A rip in your tights
At the back of your thigh
Moving a lens between the sun
And where you once were
I burn a hole
I guess I had seen a ghost
My apanthropic ways
Will be the death of me
You say
I'll wait in the reeds
You go set the sky alight
I'll burn like church mould
You'll be incandescent
As always
#poetry
And where you once were
I burn a hole
I guess I had seen a ghost
My apanthropic ways
Will be the death of me
You say
I'll wait in the reeds
You go set the sky alight
I'll burn like church mould
You'll be incandescent
As always
#poetry
December 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Moving a lens between the sun
And where you once were
I burn a hole
I guess I had seen a ghost
My apanthropic ways
Will be the death of me
You say
I'll wait in the reeds
You go set the sky alight
I'll burn like church mould
You'll be incandescent
As always
#poetry
And where you once were
I burn a hole
I guess I had seen a ghost
My apanthropic ways
Will be the death of me
You say
I'll wait in the reeds
You go set the sky alight
I'll burn like church mould
You'll be incandescent
As always
#poetry