As he takes a corner too sharply, I think of saying something like “I need to kill myself by August” out of a phantom instinct.

I turn and expect my mother to be there with a smirk, a remark like “let’s end it now then”, tired hands tight on the wheel and ready to swerve into oncoming traffic, white light hitting me everywhere, my body a paint by numbers and each point of collision a flicker of grim reckoning. Just another moonstruck masochist caught in the headlights.

See it is difficult for my to untangle disability from sex. I find most erotica on substack gag worthy (sorry) along with all of your sex poems about climaxes and crescendos and all manner of goosebumps or as flesh presented as the pinnacle of eroticism for everyone ever. I’m sorry but I really don’t want to see the word “nipple” or “crevice” or “tremor” ever again.

Its the kind of sex positivity that doesn’t want to talk about mediocre sex unless its a feminist statement, unless its “enthusiastic positive consent”, unless there’s a “point”. Sometimes sex is just a thing that happens, as neutral as our bodies or shitting.

Other times its a container to let us feel grief for the body or life that we don’t get to have.

I don’t want to brace you for my sadness as if this a kink.com scene. I just don’t. No one wants to prod the space where sex overlaps with melancholia because the idea of consent that isn’t enthusiastic is difficult to look at. Yet I feel alienated because my body can’t do the same things that yours can. Being in pain is inevitable. The fantasy of enthusiastic consent without even a slight grimace of pain is the able bodied fantasy.

There’s a kind of anticipatory space around sex where poetry lives, as well as complicated human feelings. Recently I read Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene by Xuanlin Tham. Tham essentially argues that the sex scene in film can be used in a way that is crucial to plot and the wider understanding of sexuality in our culture. I think writing could be used the same way, key word: could. This book was how I discovered Crash.

I watched crash 1996 and it took me back to the car,
and to the road
and to feeling like roadkill after a motorbike crash,
or every time my mother almost killed me.

The pain feels like angels singing. All this longing feels like a punch to the gut, buzzing under my skin as the ER nurse pokes my torso
oh “that rib is bruised”
and oh “how did this happen?”

But the other question is whether I can even interact with this space sexually without turning my trauma & disability into a fetish. Because right now I sew lust in the tapestry of my melancholy and hope you don’t notice.
“I can fix her” says a man who’s never heard of mechanophilia. So I guess I’ll read a poem to you while you’re tied up to the St Andrews cross, for your sad girl fetish.
Maybe all of the “sex poets” are a new wave of exhibitionists. I simply don’t think it matters right now. I’ll occupy the same space either way.

To me eroticism feels like a lightning strike. The impact is erotic. The crash. The possibility that my body is about to become something else. Ecstasy and agony. Bataille’s Erotism. To me eroticism feels like mourning, like missing something inherent in you and filling all the empty space with mechanical parts.

“Maybe the next one darling.”

how do i stop being so insecure as a dom? what are some ways to start being more seductive? how do you get into a flow that doesnt feel stagnant, awkward or forced?

I think that the thing that most people miss about trying to “learn” how to be dominant is that you actually have to be a bit of a loser about how bad you want it. It’s not useful to think of intimacy as a performance most of the time (unless you’re a very specific kind of exhibitionist). It can feel strange to lean so deeply into your own perspectives and desires when you’re used to prioritising another person. The flow or momentum comes from the fact that you’re not focused on if you look awkward (and that you can be dominant even if you are! I know I have many awkward moments as a Dom) but the fact that instead of thinking about how your partner is looking at you, you’re too preoccupied with looking at them. You have to want it BADLY. Desire isn’t a sterile endeavour. If you follow your appetites, the rest comes naturally.

We haven’t seen much of you? What have you been up to lately?

I’ve been writing my book most of the time and when I’m not writing I’m either rollerskating or working on my narrowboat. I go through periods where the muse possesses me and nothing else in life matters. The rest of the time I’m opening up space to listen to the world without noise. I like things that get me into my body. Rollerskating is my favourite obviously but I also like going on long walks around London to see how everything connects (and you just see the world differently on foot). Also going to the gym. Carrying bags of coal is a workout in itself as well. The other day I got the power washer out and cleaned the roof of my boat. I’ve been partying a lot less this year, I find it more productive to be sober when writing a novel (short stories and poems I do love a pint with though). I’m focused less on clips and social media and more on 1-1 sessions where I can be fully present, it helps create space in my head.

Any advice for someone trying to get better at feeding her dominant side? I'm VERY submissive but I want to try putting more into my dominant side but I just feel..silly, like I'm some kind of bad actor, so I guess I’m just asking some advice!

I touched on this with an earlier question, but I feel like stepping into that role is a lot about pivoting your perspective on desire. While most “serious” Dom’s may disagree with me (and also I’m primarily a sadist), I think its more about actions and what you do, rather than something inherent. Identity is fluid, kaleidoscopic. I’d recommend just thinking about what you really enjoy, having a daydream, fantasising, starting a private sideblog for that part of you.

When it comes to scenes, if you’re nervous the first couple of times I would also say creating a scene plan in your head. This is something I mostly do for pro sessions these days but I’d assign one “activity” per 30min (except for things that would be exhausting to do for that long like impact play) but those activities could exist within the context of an overarching roleplay. So a scene could be like 25min of bodywriting, 20min of trampling and 25min of boot worship but its all within the context of dollification/puppy play etc.

Also negotiate with your partner so you know exactly how far you can push them and in what ways (i.e: they might want to be pushed verbally but not with pain. choking is a hard limit but they’re ok with other types of breathplay). It’s really helpful to know both your own and your partners limits so you can let go of fear of doing something wrong.

What gets you up in the morning? What drives you? What is your main motivator to keep going through everything - work, home life, everything. What would you say are your guiding philosophies?

Mostly I just want to write the things I want to see exist in the world.

Other than that, write a lot, read a lot, live slowly, be brave, be kind. Live curiously, have an open heart. Have love for insects and other small critters & creatures. Spend time by the water. Do things to get you into your body and out of your head. Find pleasure in a variety of things. And if your path doesn’t exist yet invent it.

That’s all for this week <33

🦷, willow

getting fisted on the kitchen counter sipping whiskey and

my louboutins in your mouth

this is the good part

the hotel room with its maroon tiles

drawing hearts in the fogged up glass for someone to see later

someone loved and someone was here

“you cannot kill me in a way that matters”

i heard lately that your obvious art is your best art and so i release myself from the fog of ambiguity.

i love you neptune and you have served me well.

i’ve been waiting, i’ve been dripping with want, i’ve been contorted into experimental forms now i want to be specific

the dried apricot slices and the dark room

findom dating and lipstick and luxury

skipping stones

i want to be sexy like flesh spilling out from the wrong places, like hunger like

sapiosexual like fuck that girl is just dripping with poetry and i want to reach inside it and fuck it

this flesh is just a vessel and i am a vessel of pleasure and decadence

i’ll do it with or without an audience, slide my finger across the grout, create a world i want to live in

i’m not a writer of essays or interested in experimental forms

i’m a slut and a novelist

i’d rather sell porn than my diary. maybe that makes me the problem

i’d rather strut around a st andrews cross than read sad poetry

i’m not 14 anymore

i want to bear teeth, to play executioner with a sparkle in my eye, to slip into new skin

lets call it evil healing

It seems up to this point I have been the only one truly present in my writing. I have 19 of these letters left that I promised myself I would write. When lovers exist here they’re painted as a silhouette, a starless sky, a negative before it’s developed. I tell myself I like the negative space. I crosshatch the people I don’t want to talk about with the stroke of a calligraphers pen, loops and loops and spirals thickening with pressure and releasing before the advent of the next letter on the page. I’m the only thing made of flesh here, sending you solipsistic kiss marked envelopes. That’s not out of love, that’s out of fear.

You’re not meant to talk to strangers on the internet this intimately. First I wanted to write about sex. I wanted to write letters like I used to write for him, but the ink flows different when it’s a scream into the void. “A professional secret keeper doesn’t make a very good writer” whispers something in my head. I don’t want to listen to it.

I don’t want to talk about her, or them, or that place at all, but it keeps showing up, and the negative space consumes the page until it’s just empty, blinking at me, waiting.

My first piece of writing on here is about drinking. There’s tipsy. Then there’s that place. The event horizon. Hungering to fuck up in a way that means someone will treat you tender tomorrow. The threshold beyond a black hole. Drunk.

Yeah, thats it. I write about being drunk. L’appel du vide. I write about dive bars and strange pubs and beer gardens and rolling on my back in the grass, my mouth sick with peach schnapps under a july thunderstorm crackling past the garden fence.

A black hole. Have you ever lost all your memories? Do you remember what it felt like? (The irony). The blank page. The negative space. The simplicity of existing without knowing, the relief that comes with your own personal apocalypse. The epistemological madness of it all.

I don’t want to talk about her.

This is a nice neighbourhood. This is meant to be the good part. Existing feels tidy, smooth like an opal. There’s no danger, chemically induced or otherwise. There are lost house keys pinned to the community board at the laundromat. This is not a place for beads of blood rolling down my thighs, or learning what a cigarette tastes like just because that girl is so goddamn beautiful.

It felt like heaven to hate her.

I am so grateful now I promise! But I secretly miss the wreckage. I clench a fistful of dirt. My fingers are soaked in fertiliser, wrinkled from all this nurturing. I want to try everything, I want to fly burning, I already know I have a taste for the sun.

I think I might be the black hole.
I’m thinking about starting a garden.

void in the shape of a girl

it girl wears a silvery smokey eye to the porn shoot to watch it run.
it girl is watching me and i am watching her.
we pass secret notes written in code through a keyhole in my mind.
it is just us against the camera, cradling one another with lipstick.
we are not thinking of the stranger in the room, but we know him well.

these masks we rotate through are like picking candy.
i can be both warhol and valerie.

i get tired of dancing but when i do, i kiss it girl sloppy
lick the sweat rolling down her neck to the collar bone
everything is about it
but we don’t name it.
it is a power
that a creature like me isn’t supposed to have.
i ask it girl what she wants.
she says shew wants to dance and spin until we’re silly with lust.

we wink and pass a secret note through the glory hole.
i keep the dagger under my garter
because cruelty will always be there for me after the party.
she doesn’t care what the others think but she wants a blinding light on the dungeon floor to frame her right as she’s unseamed
i slip my fist in her and my fingers return slick with the poetry of wanting, viscous to the knuckle.
see this? see me? i can be a wreck too. this honesty teased out of me
my ultimate BDSM fantasy.
thick trails of poetry spill glittering from a fanged void.
look at the horrifying thing i am. look at my hunger, my cruelty
sparkling like spit like God like relishing in doing something you’re not supposed to
the lyrical spools throbbing in the confession.
the pain of vulnerability
until the flesh and lexical become curlicued frenzy.

we flirt in liminal space, her jaw glistening with three rows of teeth
she can’t feel through her own body so she possesses mine.
she’s slipping out of latex skin
we fuse together.
“sticky”
she tells me what she likes.
a shock wave

she likes currents. electrical engineering
her pussy a pit of stars, her gut a concave mosh pit
waist like a sniper. forbidden desire in the crosshair.
she likes cities
she likes feeling the heartbeat of a collective history pumping through the floor of a gay club in dalston
i pour into her a fountain of liquid latex and she pours it back into me changed
she likes to get away with murder
she likes to spin in electric eroticism until atoms sing
open a vortex right there
hungry and opulent and brutal
she flickers to attention when a stranger recognises me
and the potential is buzzing in the air

it girl is a shimmer, she wears my skin to swallow you whole.
etheric hunger. my sympathetic porn double.
she says “i’m hungry i want more”
it girl is asexual in her perversion.
you see it is a void. it is a hunger.
it is the penetration of my teeth in your neck.
void princess. void in the shape of a girl. void incarnate. teased open
it girl conjures, invents a new world.
the monstrous is often also the innovative. ecstasy as legacy. tactical trashy.

she is a key to oblivion and it is sweet.
there are things i only admit to wanting when you think i’m lying.
she likes round numbers. to turn hunger into luxury.
whispers “it’s all a performance baby but that doesn’t make it less true”
world domination. self emancipation. the miniskirt is the punchline.
we’ve got you this deep,
hook line sinker.

after all that excavation
she thanks you.
you’re going to learn to like these things.
even when the party is over.

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A list of links that I have enjoyed for you to peruse at your leisure.

• deadpubs

• sad girl theory

• performance and intimacy

• moanzine 18+

• chronology of british hydrological events

🦷, willow

here in this dust, flame, mist it’s easy to recognise the matchbox boys
i took the bait. silly me. predictable bunny
i know the anatomy of my shame better than i ever have. shivers tearing through me.
and you, the voyeuristic reader, you love it don’t you?
but i have one hundred thousand luminous eyes looking out for me
they blink across the metropolis
this is my weaponised surveillance; my alibi
i am the thing in the corner watching you right now
let me whisper something in your ear
it’s insult to injury and memory how devoted i’d get
i have kerosene dreams of lighting myself on fire for the girl in the city
instead here i am, scrubbing you out of me
so today i’m going to do the hurting
what will it be? a great battle axe, a flail, the mace of shakti herself?
you’re simply a wounded animal and i am a hysterical minefield
my fate is blood stained hands and sunsets
yours isn’t even written in the book
so say what, i’ll give you a head start bunny
you can leave the chalk for me to chase and i’ll let drool drip down my teeth
go on, sprint
leave clues for me all the way up to the spiral staircase
imagine the chime of the bell so much it feels like memory
worst case: I can always sink into a new city and build myself again, but you? I’m not so sure.
I am broken and glittering.
and you are bland.
I am a synergy of existence
invasive keys and clocks and hands.
there’s a creativity in torture, so i’ll show you how mean i can be
“this will only hurt a little” i grin, emanating heat
did you forget you’re in my city, my house of horror, my chambers
poor bunny: bad dreams
gonna cry? am i too mean?
i’ll watch the guilt eat through you like rats trying to escape heat.
blood is an acquired cosmopolitan taste
i’ll contort you and create you and declaw you.
i’ll chase you up the clocktower, corner you and bruise you
i can make you tremble until you’re something good
i’ll make it work.
i’ll hate you to the point of invention.
i’ll be the violent one this time.

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A list of links that I have enjoyed for you to peruse at your leisure.

• youraislopbores.me

• 17776

• hillhouse.neocities

• Dataism confessional

• dithermark

It’s a short one this week. I love you. And you don’t ever have to forgive them (whoever them is to you) if you don’t want to

🦷, willow

she found God!

correction: they found faith

correction: that thing crawling behind the bins last night claims to pray

sure I’m full of faith but I’m not very good at it

I try and find a flow with it, rapids licking my heels as I flail in seafoam

Sadhana becomes submission becomes masochism becomes transcendent

God is women as in derby & dykes

God is women as in boats and knives

God is women as in the burial grounds

Dadi warned me that this worship would eat me alive

But that’s my karma

My appetite

I think God is a dominatrix and I am her plaything

And I’m not just saying that because I’m biased

She broke open my pelvis and everything fell together and apart

Knots in muscle

Knots in a cord unfurling into ugly hope

I smiled at the ash

The clock tower I’ve spent a life climbing crumbled at the foundations

Lightning sparks. Screams

Singing Singing Singing.

Like a deer in the headlights

Who understands something that we don’t

Because when faced with time

It pauses to listen

“Who dares misery love, who hugs the form of death”

Who finds humanity in the unloved and the grotesque

She makes me kinder, sharper, wiser

A monstrous femme

Not your kind of “divine feminine”

Tell me something more feminine than shoulders and teeth

Where I’m from divinity is bearing weapons naked, dancing on battlefields

Mother ain’t proud

But Ma is

(happy april fools day)

The internet is an absurdists dream, but it can be hard to exist within it without feeling trapped whether thats by platforms, tools or algorithms.

When the web that’s being woven is strange and confusing, the natural suggestion is to weave your own. But how do you do that, especially when it feels like swimming upstream?

Many yearn for the old internet and the webs of connection that came from it, but it also had many vulnerabilities. There’s always the option of going offline and choosing to transfer all your data to hard drives, but that can be isolating and uprooting.

So here’s my solution: web weaving.

web weaving

I was first introduced to web weaving by filmnoirsbian on tumblr when I was 15.

Web weaving is creating themed collections of quotes, stills from film, art, lyrics or whatever other medium inspires you.

These collections were not made with the intention of growth on a platform, often posted by writers, anonymous tumblr blogs or faceless instagrams of teen girls. They said hey look at this pattern I noticed. Yet they still lured me into often wanting to read more of the writers work and buy their book.

Within their web weaving I could tell that they understood the way my mind worked and I understood theirs too. This mutual recognition was enough to make the internet social, and maybe its all we ever needed.

When I started to place my ideas together in my journals, I adopted this structure. I would create documents centred around different ideas that felt recurring in my life, like haunted houses, queer desire, empathy for the machine and industrialisation. Eventually the term “web weaving” took on its own identity, becoming a practice that governed how I would show up on the internet.

my version of web weaving.

I’m really drawn to the idea of weaving something by hand. I like the history of weaving, as a handmade, intentional, slow paced practice that brings together communities. It lets us
engage with our everyday clothes and tools without excess.

I also like how it conjures the image of a spider weaving her web. To a spider a web is a home, a tool to feed herself, a way to listen to the world and a way to move through it.
The web a spider weaves helps her save energy that would be used on hunting and instead focus on tending to her own garden, or in this case, her web.

When I think about web weaving in this way, I think of the web as this medium of receptivity, mobility, accessibility, creation and energy conservation but naturally i also think of the world wide web

I have been intentionally ambiguous in defining my version of web weaving. I wanted it to define itself naturally through patterns and practice, not by what I told it to be.

If I were to define it here’s my definition.

Web Weaving is the introverts way of interacting with the cyber space without burnout. It utilises curation and metaphor to resist censorship and invite deeper meaning. It is not bound to a platform, nor something done for corporate motivations. Its an approach that centres cultivation without disconnect. It can be a home, a lure and a way to see the world all at once

I’m going to outline my “rules” for web weaving.
This might sound similar to something called digital gardening. However...

rule 1: web weaving is not digital gardening

Digital Gardening is an approach coined by Mike Caufield around the curation and development of ideas, often within a platform like obsidian.

Web weavings are not necessarily digital gardens. While I adore the concept of a digital garden, and I use one myself, ideas can grow stale if they only make sense to you.

Second brains, digital gardens, notion dashboards, or whatever your poison is, they can be overwhelming. You can easily fall down rabbit holes of templates, organisation of ideas and taking notes. They aren’t for everyone. Data is dynamic. Your weavings are alive. And living things decay. A web weaving is byte sized.

A web weaving is a lot less pressure than that. Think of web weaving as a repost button where you take back the control of what you choose to share, rather than rely on a feed to provide it for you. A web weaving can be as simple as a list of links you’ve enjoyed this week, seen in Naive Weekly a substack written by one of the creators of the Internet Phone Book. It can exist anywhere, in any shape you like. It can exist in multiple places. It’s meant to be shared.

Web weaving can be a final expression, the goal of the system. And it does not need to be polished

rule 2: web weaving is not art

While creative, a web weaving is like a note in a sketchbook of what we enjoy, not a final piece.
Web weaving takes off the pressure to reinvent the wheel if posting is our livelihood (and for many independent artists, it is). It still highlights new connections. Web weaving is like thinking.
I don’t weave with the intention of creating something, but it naturally occurs. I interlink my own ideas with the world, and create something bespoke, something delicate, something that’s mine.

rule 3: a web weaving is not an indie website

I love the old internet, the old web revival and the idea of a poetic web. I really do. I’ve read lots of articles and spend a lot of time on the wayback machine finding hidden gems.

Still, there’s a gap between the average person who uses instagram to message their friends and someone with the time and resources to code their own website.

Web weaving is like a stepping stone to the web we want in the sense that it is accessible. It doesn’t require setting up anything new. It just requires your intuition to be put in the drivers seat. Its a way of meeting the internet we currently have halfway.

rule 4: web weaving is a communal poem, the exquisite corpse of dreams

Developing the idea that web weaving is not a digital garden nor a personal website, web weavings thrive in quiet third places. They invite deeper meaning. In order to do that, weavings need to exist where other people are.

Web weaving is causal, diaristic and low pressure. It doesn’t appeal to an algorithm, yet it’s able to be communal practice of defining and exploring the collective dreams, hungers and frustrations of a community.

rule 5: a web weaving gets clever about censorship

Web weavings are clever about censorship. They provide space to grieve and explore frustrations related to the world we live in without needing to be polished. Naming the experience (and often the horrors) has it’s role in activism.

Audre Lorde states:

“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

While web weaving is not gendered, it would be strange to not comment on the fact that the majority of those creating web weavings are women.

Web weavings on anonymous accounts can be a space to name the experience without putting ourselves in danger if it is unsafe to do so. Not everyone is able to discuss war, queer issues, class divide and other issues on their public facing account without making ourselves vulnerable (for example, by revealing that they themselves are queer).

Web weaving also lets us discuss these issues in “coded” poetic language to resist censorship, a kind of meta irony that any human would recognise, but an AI moderator wouldn’t be able to comprehend.

rule 6: web weaving is a tool that moves with you

A web weaving is not a place, but a thread. Weaving is a tool and practice that moves with you. We can work towards a sense of place online, but this is a stepping stone.

Weaving is an approach, a verb, “to weave”. It is not a noun. It is not a commitment like a digital garden that is bound by the space that we contain our dreams. It can cross pollinate across our work, be entirely private or public, and go beyond the borders of a single platform or silo. We can web weave right where we are, whenever and wherever we want, because it’s a tool we keep on us at all times. You don’t have to obsess over the system, because you are the system.

But just like a toolkit, it can build an entire universe if you let it

tl;dr - start where you are

Web weaving is something you can start right where you are. Whether you want to create a poetry tiktok account with a slideshow, a set of collages on pinterest, a substack, an instagram story series, an obsidian vault or even your own website, web weaving moves with you because you are the web weaver defining your space.

You don’t need to uproot yourself. Nothing is missing. You have every tool at your disposal and your biggest tool is yourself.

When I was eight I slipped. My canine tooth pierced through the edge of my bottom lip but at the time I thought I had seriously fucked up my teeth. There was so much blood on the bathroom tiles of my boarding school bathroom. I would trace shapes on those same tiles with my pinkie in the shower. Sometimes I’d scare myself when I saw a monstrous face look back at me in the swirling peach patterns. Now they were splattered with blood. The whole blurred like I was in a poorly lit, charming yet amateur student short film. I screamed and screamed and screamed.

I visited the doctor with my dorm auntie and a friend, just watching the blood run and run and run down my face, all over my hands. It was probably my first time truly considering my mortality. It was all fine in the end, and we ended up joking about how sharp my teeth had to be to go through my lip.

I never told my parents or anyone else about what happened, but every time I looked at the scar on the corner of my face it felt like I had a secret of my own, which made me smile.

I used to love secrets. They felt parallel to femininity, but genderless. Secret diaries, Nancy Drew books and magnifying glasses had somehow slipped through the cracks and become a “girl” toy. I didn’t have any secrets yet, but the idea of growing up and being able to use all of these tools of observation and detection made me feel very mature.

It’s not that I particularly like keeping serious secrets, but one or two harmless ones made me feel giddy like sipping my mum’s “pink drink” (which I later learned was rosé). I still love harmless secrets like having a crush, a perverted fetish or a secret talent. Always something more to reveal if someone leaned in close at a bar and told me to tell a secret. A decoy to avoid talking about the not so pretty stuff.

I read The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado when I was first trying to find my voice. It stuck with me, because the green ribbon became a representation of secrets as a form of autonomy. The ribbon was something that you kept for yourself, selfishly and indulgently. It wasn’t malicious, but something that no one else would ever gain access to (and if they insisted it, you would unravel).

I think a lot about what my green ribbon would be. It’s romantic to think about a place you can unravel without witness. Unfortunately I need to reveal my soul to feel wanted for what I am, rather than the “illusion” I project (which is some backwards emotional logic, since the illusion is still a part of me). Yet I still want to have something for myself. Something that never makes it to the camera or page. I still don’t know if that’s wrong and whether I will inevitably reveal everything eventually. I don’t know if I will pick up more things to bind in green ribbon along the way. I share so much of myself. My body, my writing, my fears, my skeletons in the closet. My green ribbon is fluid, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I feel genuinely motivated to keep sharing my work on this site, thank you for another lovely week

🦷, willow

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A list of links that I have enjoyed for you to peruse at your leisure.
softskinlatex zine scan from tumblr

1. the web is yours poster

2. second skin about fetish culture

3. my body is a prison of pain so i want to leave it like a mystic but i also love it & want it to matter politically

4. the husband stitch by carmen maria machado

5. FROM THE WORLD OF STRENGTH a zine by soft skin latex

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I’ve been making a habit of poetry watching. These terraced townhouses. My favourite cherry blossom tree in this neighbourhood. Swans outside my window watching me make a mess while I cook (a bit like you right now). The runners in their skin tight pastel outfits dotting the towpath like candy hearts. Spilled yellow wax from the candle I light at dusk when I write. The world is dripping in honeyed poetry, mauve sensualism, diluted blood, each word like skipping stones skimming the surface of reality.

Which is fine. I have a penchant for existential voyeurism. I would like to write to you about something effortlessly mundane that reveals the way I see the world but it doesn’t work like that. I’m busy looking at you, looking at me. And by “you” I mean all of existence itself. Writing with the crisp clarity of a lover is hard because as you may have noticed, my world is wrapped in layers and layers of pink fog, dissolving at the touch like candy floss. If I peel back the layers I’ll probably find something that I don’t want to see, not right now.

I so desperately want to strip myself down for you but I delight in the dance: the pink fog like a feather boa slipping around my shoulders, something lacy between my teeth.

Joan Didion said that writing is a hostile act because you are trying to make someone else see the world the way you see it. If that is the case then poems are writing, stories are writing but so are dungeon theatrics and intimacy. I call this dance sustainable pink oblivion.

And I like pink. Pink as a colour of longing, transformation, liminality and the endless in between. Pink as contortion. Pink as lynchian suburban gothic.

Pink grants me fluidity. No one wants to look at the moss growing in my sink or hear the whirring of machinery. If a magician told you how they snuck a card in your leather boot the party would be over. Everyone goes home. Curtains called.

But I am not a magician. I am a writer. This means I am a kind of investigator meets surgeon meets archaeologist. I am dredging up lexical madness from a murky lake. I am building broken worlds that make this one feel kinder but also act as a warning. God is asking me a question and I am spending years answering it.

It’s nice to desire and be desired but that doesn’t fill the hole in my heart. I need to know what God knows. I need to taste oblivion. And I hope it is sweet.

Come summer maybe I’ll be able to talk to you about something (‘literally anything’ I hear you beg) other than writing novels as a form of sadomasochism. But for now my hands are tied.

The Succubus Codex ⋆ ˚｡⋆ ꩜˚

A list of links that I have enjoyed for you to peruse at your leisure.

1. anatomy of a hookup

2. stoness verda’s show (this friday! go see it if you’re around)

3. forever mediated by ester frieder

4. the art of loputyn (some artworks contain artistic nudity)

5. an exit wound that feels so fucking good by megan williams

🦷, willow

as a thank you to my paid supporters, here’s a first draft of a poem i’ve been tinkering with. i love a list, i love erotic melancholy and i love a poem. therefore…

loveless bar tab

my attempts at love.

$0.00
white wine stolen from the top shelf in the kitchen

slumber parties, family dinners and desire in liminal spaces. intertwined.
i reject myself before she has a chance to
we drift apart. the reconnection is like a a fizzled out transmission, a forgotten cider on the bar

$6.00
sour student cocktails

lovers criss cross applesauce their way down dorm hallways
without a secret to reveal at the afters “love” has no meaning, so i play two truths, one lie in the mirror
i keep my lovelessness secret, spin in circles in my room alone until it mimics company.

$25
peach maraska. cherry on occasion.

she doesn’t know what happened to me but she knows it’s ugly and doesn’t care much either way.
her voice mimics a third place in my bedroom, our public house, loveless in equal measure
we fall asleep to the sound of each others breathing every night, as many times as it takes to be ok about it all.
i convince the world i’m a lover. she changes her name and treats me like a stranger forever. i change my name too and walk forth into the dark. some people are shiny because they are sharp.

$12
2 for 1 margarita’s

he is sweet, he is my last attempt at love. we can both feel it with every creeping moment.
something that burns fast over the summer and crashes into blue lights by november.
it is blackberry jam sugar sweet. I line the hollow void in my chest with the sugar till i convince myself it’s real.
i nearly die twice. I’m the prettiest emergency in town. He doesn’t ask any questions.

$4
guinness at the cursed pub

this is aching. I am ache, I have never been anything else. if you asked me right now at least five points on my body are aching in their own brutal and uniquely terrific ways.

when I stumble out of the sex party drunk on strangers spit, a guilty sadist with mascara smeared down my face: I treat the lovelessness as karmic harm reduction, a kind of hangover cure.

this graveyard of love , a life measured in pint glasses
what next? I seek to fit myself into a perfect slot but do I forget queerness demands invention?

$17.
toffee vodka.

what we have isn’t love. he doesn’t care when his heart flutters radioactive blue all the same.
we build with the stone and earth, the ivory shine of glaciers
a kind of loveless devotion that follows through every lifetime, a lavender promise:
my timeline or yours?
it is not heart break. it’s a bending of fate. still i am loveless, but i play the lovers part.

this poem may go through more iterations, but as a supporter, thank you for listening to me be vulnerable <33

i have some more rituals planned for the future.

The winter is finally coming to a close. I’ve listened to the heart of the city beat with every footstep this week, through the towpath mud streaked on my leather soles. Sometimes the only way you learn to love something is to step outside of it for a while. Thats how I’ve felt with London. That’s how you know its home.

London lives inside me everywhere there is empty space, but she is a cruel mistress of fog and hunger. I live on a boat, which is best for my itchy feet. I can disappear and still be home. Inside the cabin, when the hull creaks against the harshness of concrete, I don’t feel like I’m lost. Even when there’s engine grease under my pink nails.

This is something. I am going to make it something.

The Succubus Codex ⋆ ˚｡⋆ ꩜˚

A list of links that I have enjoyed for you to peruse at your leisure.

• searching dominatrix on the wayback machine (flash warning + NSFW) 1 2 3

• it is as if you were making love

• tomie the domme next door on being an it girl

• sensualism by heaven sent honey

• instantaneous possession

• a website is a cocoon for becoming

• second skin

rubber slick like engine oil.

This collage is a combination of pictures I’ve taken on my narrowboat cruise down south. Other than the rollerskates, all of the images in this collage taken by me.
A working barge with a crane. A cherry blossom tree from a pub garden. The reflection of the water my first night back in London. My engine bay. Latex. Leather gloves, ginger tea and mooring ropes.

Treat this as a piece of my world and what I’ve been up to. A diary of sorts by someone with Neptunian tastes.

🦷, willow

so i did. with the snap shut of a pink clam shell phone, boxes of material possessions taped up for donation and a hellbent conviction i made a choice and didn’t tell a soul. a choice to turn the lights off of this “thing” i have here just for a little bit (i still don’t know what to call this).

i wish i could say i travelled the world and met a mystic at a crossroads that told me some grand secret that i could bestow on a stranger to be of use in the world (and maybe even cash), but seeking the unknown is a long lazy spiral of returning.

so i type this on my way home (to my houseboat, to my body, to my art, though the writing never really left and neither did God) with a weird feeling that even though the my year of vanishing was a long dreaming period of writing books and falling in murky green water, nothing will ever be the same again.

so i guess i’ll be honest. i always wanted you to look.

if you’re still here, happy new year. let’s make it a fun one

its a reminiscing on the process of making her, of wandering through the woods and carving the paths. remembering the way she cut me in half. the wigs i styled to invent her. the ways i bent my body to step into hers. the agony and ecstasy of it.

its learning the returning. learning from her. trying to not poke the bruises

you can buy a physical copy here
the e-zine is accessible to supporters below <33

Everyone experiences dissociation to some degree. The men on top benefit from your dissociation. An important tool in my fusion first aid kit was figurative and literal spatial awareness in relation to emotional memory.

Maps are a great way of visualising proximity. Capitalism benefits when certain things seem more far away than they are, like doctors, community gardens and the dog park. It’s your job to navigate the world with fresh eyes in every waking moment. Your perspective of space, time, energy and resources is invaluable and precious. Guard it and never let it go.

Today we will focus on your perspective of space.

By the end of this guide you will have created a map of your hometown, your body and your subconscious.

Most people with DID don’t ever enter remission, nevermind at the age of 21. I’m a walking anomaly. I believe I experienced this miraculous metamorphosis for a reason, to share these tools of introspection with all of you.

Some reasons to create an atlas of self discovery:
♡ Differentiation and heightened intimacy in relationships
♡ Finding your way home when you feel like you’ve lost yourself
♡ Building your toolkit of pleasure and presence.

So let’s have some fun and make some maps

creating a map of places that matter to you

Our memory of a space is intensified by emotion, not data. You can go to school or work for years but not be able to recall what happened for 80% of your time there.

When we create maps of our (chosen) hometown, we’ll measure the importance of a landmark.

From my poem “instructions for a walk home”

“I spy a time capsule. I spy a creek that whispers. I spy a willow tree from the street you used to rollerskate on”

Things to add to your map
♡ Places you experienced important life events (breakups, anniversaries, exam results)
♡ Places to ground yourself in your body, places to dance
♡ Places to meditate
♡ Places to invite your friends to
♡ Places you go alone to think
♡ Places you find beautiful

Here’s a map I feel bittersweet about.

Places we live and visit are shaped by the experiences we have there and how the place changes us. London made me brave but bitter. Cornwall left me be soft but I grew too pliable and amorphous. Uni made me scared. The suburbs made me shy. The countryside made me restless.

The places we tread witness us but cannot speak. If you feel invited to do so, I’d let the landmarks you mark an opportunity to say something. The walls, the trees, the water... what would they say if they weren’t bound by the tension of holding memories they can’t process?

Also: note down your third places. You’ll probably need them later.

creating a map of your body

Bodies are intense. Creating a map of your body is vital for understanding what you’re experiencing both in moments of crisis and joy.

If you are interested in intense types of play like S&M, the map of the surreal and subtle body can help you create an awareness that leads to more enriching experiences.

Love is having and desire is wanting. Intimacy is often interpreted as being about the hunt.

Esther Perel said that if the fizzling of passion experienced in long term relationships is due to a perception of already “having” your partner, then the solution is to maintain an autonomous erotic space inside yourself. If you cultivate this mystery and secrecy, you develop the space to allow desire to bloom.

I could discuss the intricacies of intimacy forever and this guide is about introspection and self navigation. If this topic of intimacy is of interest, let me know and I’ll write more.

My point is that an awareness of these psychological textures makes you captivating and competent in playful self discovery.

What do your emotions look like? Where do they live? Are they rough, velvety, slick? Airy or dense? Mark it on an anatomical chart like the one above to develop your map.

creating a map of your inner world

This last map is probably the hardest to create so I suggest you use the previous two maps you’ve created to inform the creation of this one. It has also been the most useful tool in my healing.

The general idea is to create internal structures outlining the spatial relation of emotional experiences. Exploring these worlds is somewhere between astral projection, guided meditation and hypnotic fantasy. The term I’ve coined for the experience is parallel projection, an exploration of a world parallel to your own.

When I started DID recovery my internal world was literally like a nightmare dimension. The sky was eternally red, there were high stormy winds and monsters (who usually manifested as hallucinations or night terrors in my younger years) would chase you if you stepped outside. Our “house” was like the pink palace from coraline: equal parts unsettling and comforting.

In the end I realised that these scary visions were like a manifestation of my childhood fears, conditioning and shame. And they were lonely. Every suppressed and rejected part of me needed acceptance to heal. Now I feel that I’ve developed a love for “creepy” forgotten things.

Eventually a few headmates built a railway system on paper to understand and connect these internal spaces. Each “tube line” was often frequented by one part. This helped us internally shift the narrative during flashbacks or EMDR sessions (which aren’t recommended for DID btw, don’t follow in my footsteps).

Metaphor is highly transformative but also personal. Meditation and mindfulness was initially incredibly destructive for me (not ideal growing up in a meditation cult).

I think its easiest to think of inner worlds like the movie inside out. Highly idiosyncratic but also completely logical.

Prompts for mapping your internal world:

For the following emotions, answer the questions below: fear, shame, disgust, love, guilt, anger, joy, melancholy
♡ What place does this emotion remind you of from your first map?
♡ Where do you feel it in your body? What does it feel like, look like?
♡ What symbols do you associate with this emotion? For example: spiders, ribbon, barbed wire, asphalt.
♡ How does this emotion visit you in dreams?
♡ Describe the emotion with the 5 senses, pay special attention to lights & textures.

Answer the questions alone without sensory input. Turn off your phone. Allow the answers and maps to emerge from dream realms.

If you feel called to, make a moodboard or mind map.

i love you

I’m hoping you came out of these exercises with a sense of peace, self awareness and clarity on what comes next. For now, I give you permission to just be. Sit with your creations.

Before you go...
What exercise did you enjoy the most?
Did you learn something about yourself that surprised you?

Send me a substack message with your discoveries, I’d love to hear them.
I love you so much!!! ૮꒰ ྀི >⸝⸝⸝< ྀི꒱ა

yours in love & control
🦷, willow

my handwritten notes

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references

inner worlds in dissociative identity disorder:
- the haunted self by van der hart

cultivation of erotic identity & differentiation in intimacy
- mating in captivity by esther perel
- come as you are by emily nagoski

mindful exploration of your city and neighbourhood
- a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit
- the wander society by keri smith
- oldenburgs theory of third places

known image credits
- ZAUM developers of disco elysium
- anatomical model by luke honey antiques
- tripatika mudra by snail mail on substack

Ok warning for this poem, it’s an intense one. The age warning is more because of content, but the sex is self harm here. So 18+

It took a long time to face my compulsory heterosexuality, to accept that I’m a lesbian and to realise that I would never be in love with or be attracted to a man. I spent a long time having intense rough sex to try and convince myself that I could. The violence grew more intense while my attraction grew more distant. It’s part of why I’m a stone top and why I very rarely sub these days.

If a song sounded how this poem feels for me it’s this song

“Slowly the shit you eat will taste like hope . You’ll understand dick and loneliness when you’re filled with both .”

crimson butterflies

oh yeah i’ve been dating this great guy
when he touches me i collapse into a warm of crawling crimson butterflies
electricity foams its way up to my chest with my anchoring grip of his red bedsheets
red: the colour of rising dread 
and mars 
and men

its something like shock or conversion therapy
this sex might kill me, but my boredom is cunning  

there is no poetic way to say this: self destruction makes sense.
sorry 

so you know what: lets look away, and i’ll give you a fun fact
they used to list masochism in the DSM, did you know that?

the tangy fluttering intensity closes in around me, crawls up inside me
the swarm is in me, around me, inside me, it becomes me
he changes me, or he tries to
my mouth, swallowing plastic upon asphyxiation, hyperventilating through a layer of liquid glass, 
everything that's tangible: so close yet so far
and i get intoxicated on change so it works
meat girl, consumable girl, striated heart and pussy pumping just for you! 
its aspirational really
he’s so sweet and warm
i am glaciers and he is a forest fire that never goes out!
like the crackling coziness of a house fire
i know thats probably a sign i should stop 
after all, who am i trying to convince?
look how well i can take the sting
how i smile through the duct tape grey 
no attraction, just repulsion, swallowed revulsion

ok intermission! we have time for another fun fact
when you raise a conch to your ear, what you’re hearing is actually a sea of blood, 
how interesting is that!

the butterflies scurry out of my belly button, ripping upwards, my chest blushing making discomfort look like eroticism
and i’m thinking
i want the intensity but i don’t want you…
the butterflies form a spectators ring, droning on and on
scouting, keeping watch, ranking my performance of pain on a scorecard
but they already know
eyes fluttering closed
wings clustered around my throat
my blood is running blue
reaching for oxygen to get back to you
a vortex grows viscous behind my eyelids

i’ll never be gold but look! i got my scarlet star sticker!

i hear the blood vessels popping in my ears as i’m choked out
my ears flooding, rushing, ringing
i imagine myself singing songs or hymns
spinning and swirling in a white brides dress
just like you, and your white sunday
and it makes me cry
and that makes him hard
and i’ve learned to love this dance
pull together, fall apart

my agony aunt submission reads: 
what if we’re not filling a void, just pulling it open wider? 

this is the most open i’ve ever been
i grin and bear it, pride myself on how i let him stroke the inside layers of my flesh, 
even fuck them on occasion
it wouldn’t be me if i didn’t attribute samsara to cruelty

ok last fun fact! i’m terrified of insect swarms!

the butterflies are dizzying like smeared lipstick, 
like being drunk in a bathroom at a party alone
until i’m ugly enough to enjoy the liberation of being unwanted like an open wound 
i mean i want to be close to him
i keep climbing a ladder to cloud nine, 
mistaking the blood red cloud of folding wings for holy
but not close like this
then i hit my limit, start to doubt my ability to pull myself back together
yet i always get up

he watches as i suture my voids
calls it aftercare
so i continue to indulge in heterosexual sex and coffee table conversations
yet i cough up red butterfly wings for weeks

I have written and rewritten this poem many times but this is the closest to the original I wrote 8 or so years ago. I kind of wince at it, it still feels like an open wound.

I’m hoping that it reaches the right person at the right time, and gives words to the feelings it took so long for me to comprehend.

I love you reader, take care of yourself.

🦷, willow

Here’s a poem about wishing for things but feeling them slip through your fingertips.

it’s apocalypse august and there’s green moss growing over every surface in my house
the red moon
the guilty fox
the wishbone between its teeth
i’m drunk on omens and i’ve been scrubbing every counter clean
i’m treading through a swamp in my kitchen sink
yet i cut the chlorine in my dreams like butter
the season is slow and i smell the waxing white lilies falling off of every dying tree
every sliver of neon light a secret i’m yet to reconcile
pocket change marking the path back home
i only walk in circles

Forgive the length of this post. Sometimes a poem is just that, a poem.

scarlet collar baby

machine parts detected, opinion rejected but if i break the codex, will it break me? “show business baby” say the girls with machine teeth gems we are machine whore girls, built for our purpose at the end scrap metal foraged and forged around marshmallow membrane hearts none of us are girls, but it sells better if we say we are legs parting, worlds born, seduction dead

the yellow sale sticker projected on the moon read
$4.99!
try before you buy!

“you’re than this” says the old lady
before prying for details, to which i say pay me
it’s true, i’m still echoing through empty offices, my dreams tossing in my grave

but i’m ripe and fresh fruit sells
so for now i’m nameless, ageless, wandering

“free love baby” say the artists from bushwick or hackney
they preach amnesia laced advocacy
convenient and performative when the machine girls have relevancy

the man in a suit calls, asks “can you be kinky”
kink is the indulgence of assumption
i am no more and no less than what you see, so who do you need me to be?
i’m still picking the petals off cybernetic daisies
will he or won’t he pay me?

and they tell me my days are numbered, one day they will use my ad to seek my bounty
it might read:

WANTED: the machine whore off durty
erotic, esoteric, liquid 952 silver
incredulous, unstable, isotopic
a malleable wriggling fucker

or whatever they want to believe

but us machine whores?
we’re scrappy, sharp survival songs
we are neptune in the shape of girls

listen i’ve made hotels look romantic by being the one to haunt them
i still sleep in my own bed

i’m still counting change and favours
smiling, tipping bartenders

this story is no tragedy

the story of the machine whore is about a working class girl
her blue collar boys
and their beloved

scarlet collar baby

about the piece

This piece will be featured in my first zine! The zine is about survival sex work and hope. I hope you enjoyed the piece and if you did consider supporting my writing by upgrading your substack subscription 🫶🏼

🦷, willow

intro

💒 15th century england, a butch knight and a biblically accurate angel
💒 Not smut, but sex implied. Body horror lightly (pun intended) touched on
💒 Angsty, sapphic and seductive (just how I like it)

“ever since i was young, i wanted to see an angel”

“There’s been an angel reported near the church ruins in the woods, past the Abbey” says the one in the great helm.

They do not like that I am here. The lords may not know but the knights can hear the soft cadence of my voice.

They do not know my name and I do not know theirs. That’s how I intend to keep it.

“What did the poster say?” asked the Sallet.

“Wanted for theft”

They all nod in unison, the corrupt bastards. I am no different, waiting for my sallow faced shell of a husband to return from the sea, while I’m counting his coins and slipping them to the knights with gauntlet clad fists. Losing me would be like losing the bounty itself.

They cannot deny that I can kill, and I can do it well. I do not belong with the other ladies of the court no matter how much I long to. They are all petticoats and silks. They are giggles echoing in a chapel. I see them and a longing strikes me deeper than cupid could bury. Oh how I yearn for a softness like that, but all I have are these fists and wandering eyes.

We lowered the bridge over the moat and embarked down the hill. The fortress walls are high and the castle stone merciless.

Besides, I’m a weapon. If the world permitted it I would be on the front lines at war. My broad shoulders don’t fit into their dresses. I’m out of place.

“This one is going to be big for us” they say, riding on horseback down the hill.

It started with faeries, little wings captured in flight, pinned then framed like butterflies. Then there were imps, elf ears, pixies, hounds and all sorts of lucrative nuisances.

They sold well, but that wasn’t why I started.

Ever since I was young, I wanted to see an angel.

We tread through dirt, leaving it behind.

Even from here I can see the beautiful, ugly, heaving being that is London. It curls up at the foot of the hill like a dog at its Masters heel. It bares its canines all the same.

This place is not like the beast. I long to have that much company. I do not guard my pockets the same way here. I do not bare my soul the same either.

We descend into the forest. They told us stories of horrifying creatures that lurked in the green, or deep in lakes when I was a little girl. Unfortunately for me, I’ve always been curious to a fault.

So once again, I am hunting. The barbute heads west, the great helm east, the frog mouth north west. The one without a helmet looks at me as I dismount my steed.

“Think you can take an angel? They’re tough you know”

“I’m tougher”

I look at him, folds of skin and an anxious bite of the lip.

“Be safe, we’d miss you around here if something were to happen, and your father would have our head”

I nod.

“Thank you” I announce before treading swiftly down the path, into the unknown.

I envision her poster in my mind. She is delicate. She would suit the dresses my husband brings back for me better than I do. I clasp the memory of her face like a rosary, each count a heartbeat.

She is a blur but I feel her in the forest. She is unlike anything I have ever hunted before. I hear the confused murmurs of the barbute in the west and the anger of the great helm in the east. I tread south and feel her wings flutter all the way through me.

She’s different.

I follow her pulse. I find her curled up tight, clutching a bundle of feathers to her chest. She stands naked, silent as a hare, and extends her wings to the sky.

“Be not afraid” she whispers, voice trembling.

Her wings are glorious, decadent. Eyes line them like beads. She is the most beautiful being I hae every seen.

I kneel, resting my sword against a tree, and extend my hand.

“Come with me, I’ll make sure they don’t find you”

Her eyes dart around, all thirty of them, then she sighs. She takes my hand and we return home.

Except, we don’t, because that would be romantic, sweet, written out of a fairytale. The beast at the foot of the hill is hungry for violence and I must feed it.

I sneak her into the castle past dusk, through passages that feel as claustrophobic as catacombs. I hold her cold hands as I guide her down into darkness. I give the guard at the door a nod then I take her up the spiral staircase to the prison tower.

It hasn’t been used in years. I do not tell a soul who I found. She is my prize, my seraph to keep.

I return to her night after night. In the beginning I cannot bear to do it but I muster up the courage eventually. She does not rattle her cell bars. She does not wear the dresses I bring her. She takes no gold. The moon spins past her window each night.

On a starless dark moon I bring my shears. I hang them on the wall outside her cell.

I do not call her my beautiful Seraph for much ionger.

“Seraphina” she whispers.

“Seraphina” I echo back to her like a prayer, no questions asked.

The first time I unlock the cell I expect her to fly away. She just watches me as I hold the shears, knuckles white and palms sweating.

I lean towards her and do something far stranger than hunting, bribing or lying.

I kiss her. It pulls the tides of her previously timid body, opening her palms and wings and limbs to me. The castle will exile me and the court will kill me.

I kiss her again.

Her flesh is holy. It hurts to touch her but I do, over and over. I return to cell under the moon each night, just to leave little pecks on her shoulder tips, her wings and her face. I miss her burning through me when I rest my head on my blood stained pillow. My hands and mouth begin to blister.

I daydream about clipping her wings, keeping them on the ceiling above my four poster bed.

I return night after night and I fuck and I bury and I love.

Her name is a prayer.

Seraphina.

How could any lord, no matter how wealthy, ever compare? She burns holes in my clothes every time and I call it foreplay. She is the burning one, the serpent sent from above and I still love her, six wings holding me tight.

She is no longer just a girl in a cell. She is one hundred thousand angels, all of the limbs and heads and minds tangled up into the breastplate I’m nested under.

I clip two of her smallest wings and cry myself to sleep holding her feathers.

I am no prophet but she purifies me.

I am no knight either even though I pretend to be.

I thought the fact she was born from light would keep me safe when in reality she burns through everything she touches. The sun is setting and it is inside me. It is burning me alive.

I would die for her. I will die for her. I cannot forgive myself for this. I watched fifteen eyes glazed over as I clipped another pair of wings. For the first time she cried a tear so hot it burned her own cheek.

Four wings, pruned like a dying fruit tree, for what? Gold? The only gold I care for is her. The only gold I truly feel is when she is inside me and I close my eyes. If only gold feeds the beast I will rob this entire fortress before I give them her wings.

I visit her one last time. I fall to my knees and let divine retribution take hold, gripped hair, scratched back, light pouring into all the dark places in my body, sex that becomes holy when I say her name.

I’m going to die for her.

Seraphina.

She’s honey under my tongue, a secret, pure gold. She is wearing the gauntlets I store up in this tower. She is holding my sword in her right hand and a white lily in her left. I mutilated the only love I have ever known so I’m going to let it hurt me back.

Seraphina.

She is light encased in steel. This is the most beautiful she has ever looked.

I couldn’t love an angel, only possess it.

Celestial light: consume me.

Seraphina: kill me.

Maybe the reason armour fit so well was because she was meant to be my wife.

about the piece

This piece is one of my favourite recent works. I attempted to write a sapphic love story but I had to be sad and horny instead. It explores the complexity in of forbidden sapphic desire as the butch protagonist details her descent & corruption at the hands of an angel, her dream bounty which she refuses to reveal.

about

I wrote this piece to perform at sexquisite, a cabaret night hosted by sex workers for sex workers. Since a lot of you didn’t get to come to the performance I wanted to share it here for you to enjoy.

P.S: it’s a silly one

what if we titled porn like poets?

pov the perspective of a lover
creampie i bury myself in the tomb of your body
the MILF the daughter the mother, maiden crone
the girl next door the neighbour you saw picking blackberries winked at you through the picket fence
big boobs show me the rolling hills of your body
big ass show me the stories in your skin
humiliation let me see you broken let me want you anyway
latex reflections, refraction, encased in oblivion
orgasm le petit mort, a little death

here are some words i find sexy: relentless, glorious, austerity

i’m going to break you the way your eyes sparkle makes me want to knock you out.
i’m going to use you. you are a blank canvas

i’m throbbing, i’m aching, every chamber inside me beats for you.

switch you are a fountain, pour yourself into me and drink up

here are some more words i find hot: communion, expansion, practice

a piece of language is a portal to pleasure, we could write our lovers poems that turn into sexting and sexting that turns into poetic verse
but that would probably be bad for the pornhub algorithm