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Jessica Coles
@prairievixen.bsky.social
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(she/her) Poet, editor, finder of lost things, singer of silly songs. Poems in Moist Poetry, Stone Circle Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead & others. Lover of beings that move between worlds. Endearingly uncool. Bestselling poet on a very local level.
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Okay, now my new haircut feels like me. Rock and/or roll, kittens!
Showing off my new haircut, a shoulder length wavy shag with textured side swept bangs. I'm also wearing red lipstick.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Miss Bennet feels that a third verse for this song is wholly unnecessary and furthermore an affront to refined feline sensibilities.
My nuisance of a tuxedo cat has plopped her little loaf body on top of the blank page of an open notebook where the other page is filled with lines of handwritten lyrics
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A drawing of a little yellow duck with green spiky punk hair and a punk rock vest with anarchy and skull patches. It's brandishing a pocket knife.
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Happy Halloween!

This is a Children's TV Show host you've never heard of because she got cancelled after one episode for Reasons We Do Not Discuss.
The upper half of my Halloween Costume. I have my hair in braided pigtails with a pink scarf tied in a bow on top of my head. I have deep rosy cheeks and shiny pink lipstick. I'm wearing a yellow and pink striped sweater with a huge daily on the front. I have a shark hand puppet. My facial expression is best described as "unhinged grin". A more full view of my Halloween costume. You can see my frog skirt. My shark puppet is in attack posture, and actually, so am I, but grinning even more broadly with my mouth partly open.
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I decided I should crochet a blanket instead of doomscrolling in the evening, and it seems to be working out for me. So far.
A textured crocheted blanket-in-progress piled on my legs with a shapely wooden hook on top. It has a reddish-brown stripe, a taupe stripe, and the start of a beige stripe.
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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This sweater is both why you do and why you do not bring your chaotic 10-year-old daughter to the thrift store with you.
Me showing off a cropped knit sweater with bell sleeves. It's bright yellow and pink striped with a large multi-textured daisy on the chest. I am grinning broadly because it is an utterly ridiculous purchase.
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Pleased with my lunch today! Fridge-pickled carrots, leftover roast chicken, cucumber, sunflower and sesame seeds, and wild rice mix, drizzled with homemade ginger peanut sesame dressing.

(@genuscorvidae.bsky.social, a small shiny for you)
A tasty rice bowl in a sunbeam on my kitchen table
October 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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It did my heart good to see and be among so many people out in support of the teachers and public education with @freshlookediting.ca. Community is how we get through this! #ABLeg #RedForEd
Two pissed off women, grinning enthusiastically, as they approach the rally in support of public education. In the background, people gather in front of the dome of the legislature. Fall colours in the leaves and a large crowd of public education supporters The crowd gathering in front for the legislature building under a clear sunny sky, and leaves blazing golden in the crisp air.
October 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Similar problems.
My tuxedo cat, facing away from the camera, draped tidily along on my outstretched legs. My bare feet are propped up on the coffee table.
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Today's good work
Rows of chocolate chunk cookies sprinkled with fine salt sprinkled on top, cooling on a baking tray A dozen pumpkin spice muffins with pumpkin seeds in top, resting on a cooling rack in a sunbeam
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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My friend is running a bit late for our coffee date, so hey, have a look at my new glasses!
A closeup selfie. My new glasses have dark frames with a subtle tortoiseshell and an underlayer of blue. They show all of my eyes within a softly trapezoid shape (larger on top than the bottom).
September 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Apparently, I can doze off while getting a tattoo if the artist doesn't speak while working (oh how I love that he didn't speak at all while he was working! 💖)
A line drawing of a stack of seven books in various orientations with a single crocus on top, tattooed on the top of my arm just above my wrist.
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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As a result of my aforementioned faceplant, I had to unearth an old pair of glasses. My son told me that I look more handsome in these ones.
Me, with my hair down loose and wavy, wearing dark brown plastic oval glasses with a slight cats-eye tilt. You can also see my pale yellow butterfly-wing earrings.
September 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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She was camped out in my guitar case until I stood up to put the guitar away, and she immediately leaped onto my desk chair.

Miss Bennet is not allowed in my sanctuary.
A tuxedo cat drapes herself aggressively across an office chair. She's not looking directly at the camera and one front paw clutches the edge of the seat.
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I'm giving myself an A+ in this assignment. Because what fucking nonsense this day has brought.

Here is one of my marigolds, surrounded by her friends.
A red marigold with yellow outlining each petal. It looks like it's floating. There are more orange and yellow marigolds blurred in the background
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The prairies are being extra themselves today.
A prairie wheat field spreading out from a green grass ditch. The blue sky is filled with numerous fluffy clouds, from the foreground to the horizon.
August 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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One of these was from my neighbor's garden, the other was from my aunt's. @ivacheung.com, I have problems!
Two large green zucchinis next to a banana. The zucchinis are each over a foot long and four inches wide at the base.
August 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Oh, it's been a day of wildly varying emotional demands, and it's not through with me yet. But I have this magnificently handsome creature in my life, and that is a joy.
A green keel-bellied lizard is balanced on a pothos leaf with a blackened front edge. His back legs mostly hover, with one toe on each foot touching a leaf in the background. He's calmly looking at the camera in profile.
August 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The volunteer marigolds persist despite the weeds. 💖
A rough line of six marigolds (red, yellow, and orange varieties) amid a snarl of garden weeds.
August 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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There's always time for a luminous selfie in the backyard. But I'm afraid, now, we must all carry on with our days.
I'm looking straight at the camera, no glasses today, dark burgundy lipstick, and my hair in loose waves past my shoulder. The bright sun is illuminating the top of my head and making my cheeks and nose glow.
August 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Oh I love this! (reposted with alt-text)
my typewriter squirrels away the circus peanuts I used to locust by Phoebe light I rabbit my shadow that is deathless
August 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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It's important to celebrate that your hair & makeup are just right, even though you feel like your brain is made of kinetic sand and you're trying to live your day with the emotional equivalent of a wagon full of rocks tethered to your waist.
Selfie with my hair back in a low wrapped bun. You can see strands of grey in my bangs and threading back over my ear. I'm wearing obvious but not extreme eyeliner and mascara and dusty pink lipstick. My sundress is burgundy with a white floral pattern. I'm also wearing rose-gold coloured crescent moon earrings by Loxy.
July 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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My beautiful and perfect snickerdoodles. I get to accomplish fuck-all else for the rest of today.
Rows of perfect golden cookies cooling on a wire rack.
July 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Actually, tho, this glue gun was passed down to me from my parents, and so there is genuine therapeutic joy in being Old Enough to Touch the Glue Gun.
An ancient tank of a black glue gun rests on its tip on a piece of scrap cardboard. The brand label is white with blue lettering and reads "Bostik 260". Some purple fabric is crumpled behind it.
July 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Miss Bennet, if you didn't want me to pet you with my foot, you should not have sprawled all over my feet and the floor in the kitchen where I am making cookies.
A tuxedo cat looks aggrieved as she stretches out on top of my bare feet. Her head and shoulders are half lifted, with one front paw curled towards her chest and the other stretched out.
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM