"Huracán", Mary Mackey ( @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social )
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Leuchtturm a5
Lamy CP1 <14k oblique> black
From "In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse" (2025).
My first oblique nib!
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How did Jungle Woman & Bookworm come to inhabit the same body? How did they combine to make a little girl born in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the height of McCarthyism into a short, scrappy woman who began writing poems at the age of eleven and never stopped?
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How did Jungle Woman & Bookworm come to inhabit the same body? How did they combine to make a little girl born in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the height of McCarthyism into a short, scrappy woman who began writing poems at the age of eleven and never stopped?
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I became a poet by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, dodging machine gun fire, and being caught in volcanic eruptions, swarmed by army ants, stalked by vampire bats, and threatened by poisonous snakes.
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“Compelling read from start to finish. Hard to put down!”
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“I would have no objection to seeing this book in film. In fact, I would rush to the theater the minute it came out. Well written and exceptionally descriptive.”
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"A fascinating evocation of a prehistoric world..."
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When Jaguars Licked Salt from My Hands
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The Horses at the Gate
Compelling read from start to finish. Hard to put down! It's been a long time since I have found a book that didn't disappoint.
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When you lift your fork an infinite number of yous
all lift their forks at the same instant
excerpt from Infinite Worlds
©Mary Mackey
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The Fires of Spring
The nomad diviner Changar has kidnapped Queen Marrah’s son Keru—and Keshna has vowed to hunt Changar down.
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