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Move Over, Darling.

"fox made of flowers"

ever anxious · in the rotten place
no bolt hole · no bugout kit
the front finds you · up to here in shadows

This light fraught with loiter.

"When she came last week, I wanted to explain that I had an online meeting. I didn’t know the Russian word, so I tried meeting. She looked puzzled and broke into a vigorous mime of someone waving a placard and shouting ‘Putin, Putin’, which took me by surprise. Next she tried a French word, démonstration, and the penny dropped. Meeting is Ukrainian (and perhaps Russian, too) for a demo – in the English sense; though actually the French word isn’t really démonstration (you use that for the demonstration of something, like a method or technique), but manif (for une manifestation). My husband tells me that meeting used to have this sense in French as well." —Virginia Moul via

Rain.