A child after my own heart. There’s a call and response for cozyboy life, like there is at Mass (I forget what that’s called).
“How cozy I am.”
“Let us nestle in peace.”

Home

The moon is broken, and the sky is cracked. But we can still make something beautiful, together. Come on up to the house. <3

New Thimble issue just dropped. Big thanks to our volunteer staff, readers, and contributors.

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Very cool normal and fine

Submissions

TLM is open! Online / print / no fee / no payment / poetry / art / short prose. (I'm the EIC, co-founder, and managing editor. But you can just call me the HBIC.)

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Someone pointed out that any hand gesture for giving someone something is always palm-up. You don't give your heart with your palm down. That's not what that means

Thoughts of this rug consume me. Why does the pattern repeat? That’s bananas. Why does the elephant live in a desert next to a ball of yarn? (Click to see the whole thing.)

Got work up at Another Chicago Magazine a few months back and somehow missed it? Anyways, here is a scan I did with asemic writing. I love what the editor paired this with too. Big thanks!

New poem came out in As It Ought To Be MagazineBig thanks to Chase. It was a difficult poem to write, in part because it starts off funny (my toddler only collects brown fall leaves! we live in New England!) but then goes to a dark, dark place. The dark place happens offstage, but t/w nonetheless.

Bank of the Oise

Bank of the Oise, 1888

https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12721/

He’ll yeah

The vibe is less hotdogs, more hotdog water.

— it came to me in a dream

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978

Still Life: Plate of Peaches by Paul Cézanne, 1879

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137481

If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES

NOT AI.

I love a good diminutive but don’t love a diminutive as the full, proper name. I just mean names that are like:
Kay
Sage
Lee
Neil
Jane
Anne
Brett

Underrated genre of names: one-syllable names.

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

City with Animals by Max Ernst, 1914

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137194

Not to be a grinch, but the Patrick Stewart Christmas Carol sucks ass in a bad way. I love PatStew in TNG, obviously. And comparing to The Muppets versions is setting yourself up for dissatisfaction. But I’m right. It has no warmth. Boring AF. It’s route. The transformation scene is embarrassing.

If you’re going to stuff your own stocking, use a flared base.

Junk journal 2/5

Junk journal 1/5
From old cards
Stuff I found
Stuff I scanned

Also! And sorry to be so hung up on this—I genuinely didn’t feel like being genuine? I wanted a surface-level interaction genuinely so that’s what I did?

I wasn’t particularly genuine with the chatty bagger the other day. But I was still nice. Because I’m not a POS.

Severance is amazing

Title of my next chapbook or full length: SHAME CHUNKS

THATS AS FAR AS IVE GOTTEN but I feel really good about it

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Pushcart nomination, this year for an essay. Super grateful. <3