"... and when I was young
I was mildly outrageous, and now I am
completely, having seen in my brief forays
into predictability that there's no percentage
in it. Really, there isn't. I know you hope
there is, but really, there isn't."

—Irene McKinney, "Legs," from "Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?"

October in a new backyard / It was chilly this morning and the kids said maybe we'll have more luck with snow here and I said sometimes, sometimes it snows in October.

i'm on bluesky / this monarch's on the grass
hello hello