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26 days

super pleased to announce that my experimental short film, "darling, mister graphophone" has been selected for the l international bornova short film days festival, turkey, 2024!

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@PhoenixTesni

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"If you don't pick a day to rest, your body will pick it for you."

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does anyone have any useful sentences that will change my life immediately upon being read?

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11 months

this is what my last personal newsletter was about! if you ended up missing this one, you can always sign up for the next one through the link in my bio!

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11 months

confessing your love is so embarrassing. like yeah i’m in love with you and i deeply admire you and appreciate even your smallest mannerisms. yes i wanna be with you in every life for the rest of time. whatever

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2 years

my favourite genre of poems - "i love you, i'm glad i exist"!!!

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6 months

no northern lights. no solar eclipse. what exactly is the point of living in india. useless

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1 year

when i'm cozy in bed and it starts pouring hard outside, this is who i become

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2 years

good morning i have another new favourite poem

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1 year

thinking about the time vicky kaushal was asked "what do you miss about being married" and he was like "fortunately the miss is now my mrs." like he really said i'm the captain of the Loving My Wife club

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3 months

as always, your monthly phoenix tesni poem

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1 year

jung hae in & kim go eun for marie claire, september 2019

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1 year

quote with your favorite editorials/shot and why

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1 year

i was feeling incredibly restless so i freestyled a quick little poem with a d-day title. suga might be right. the future' s gonna be okay.

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1 year

the first time i watched it i got so overwhelmed & cried. it still makes me feel extremely seen to the point it feels personal. i will always love her.

b r o o k e *:･ﾟ✧

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1 year

y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:

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1 year

phoenix tesni strikes with another poem about yearning & desire!! i'm so back <3

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2 months

k-dramas this year just keep showing me characters like a mirror — doctor slump / love next door [2024]

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6 months

@lilrichiebitch bad weather and rigged elections. i love my india

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

i love poems w/ the most simplistic language & formatting that packs a strong punch- i want my poems to be Wendy Cope's The Orange, or Ellen Bass's The Thing Is. A poem that could just be a conversation from my daily life, but still punches me in the gut & stays with me forever.

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1 year

jesus christ. i need to read this book

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1 year

nothing more insane than when you're AT home in your comfort space and your brain keeps going "i wanna go home"

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@cafewindows i was not prepared 😭

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1 year

han hyojoo's 엄마, 나 힘들어 [eomma, na himdeuro: mom, i'm tired] in #Happiness (2021) vs han hyojoo's 엄마 힘들어 [eomma himdeuro: mom is tired, refering to herself] in #Moving (2023). her range. her versatility. her characters. just... #HanHyoJoo .

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1 year

@gongjicheoIs SUPREMELY NECESSARY THREAD. I'm not even fluent but even I could tell how god awful the subtitles were

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1 year

@stanzipotenza i genuinely love the fact that this man gets people every single time

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2 years

@hotteakrithi Hi, I'm not sure if you were already aware, but it's from one of my all time favourite poems- The Orange by Wendy Cope! Here it is.

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

starting off the new year with this incredibly beautiful poem from @alexdimitrov ; happy 2023. ✨

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

"Are You There, God? It's Me, Bug." — A poem born out of a @KaylaAncrum tweet in which they dreamt they had to write a poem from a bug to a god, which also reminded me of another comic by @ramharp [both linked below] //

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1 year

i like to gatekeep some poems. this one by sharon olds is one of them.

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1 year

this poem is called "fester" by phoenix tesni, or alternatively, "i've been so severely depressed & holed up in my room lately that i can't make any good art out of it."

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@PhoenixTesni

3 months

never once have i gone to a delhi reads event and come back without my heart having grown three million sizes

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

in 2019, olivia gatwood & blythe baird were in bombay for spoken fest, & we were doing a little poetry workshop with them. one of the exercises was to take a mundane, everyday object & describe it without its actual name. for an autorickshaw, people came up with "kissing booth."

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My first kiss was in an auto rickshaw

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1 year

in another life i am born into generational wealth & i fully indulge in my creative pursuits. i write & i travel to as many places as i can & i eat as many new things as i want & i blog about them. i make new friends & i photograph them, and i model for my photographer friends.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

@aoiW95 joon stands no chance whatsoever and tae would be killing it and pretending everyone else's dramatic

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@PhoenixTesni

5 months

chalo elections results mein bhi misogyny laaye maza aayega! haha xx

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Ayodhya is that hinge match Jo date pe kharcha karvaake tumhe ghost kardegi

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

when jimin turned around & punched/kicked the air because he couldn't choose a card 😭

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1 year

“omg their fucking pen” and it’s literally bts editors’ captions

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1 year

not only did he say miss me w the entire i hate my wife bs but he made sure to add i love being married i love my wife & he did it in a cute way

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@PhoenixTesni

5 months

@mcrane_12 "I'm upset and I'm upset and that is two upsets." Nothing more relatable than this

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

@apparitionnow fr what i thought lmfao like. no sir

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@PhoenixTesni

11 months

look at these two photo-holders i made <3

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

all this being said, upcoming poets & authors like me are so grateful for new litmags that are run by teenagers / young people with no funds whatsoever- simply out of their love for words and to provide a platform to people. always super grateful.

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@PhoenixTesni

11 months

had the loveliest day at delhi reads today; time & again i'm reminded how important & crucial poetry is for me & for the world. thank you for giving me a space to meet the most gorgeous people in delhi today!

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

just the most insane face card

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

bae suzy is just so unbearably gorgeous in anna

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1 year

han hyo-joo possessed by her own character from #moving in the kdrama happiness. that's not sae-bom, that's mi-hyun & her tonkatsu.

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@PhoenixTesni

3 months

got an acceptance in an hour omg

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1 year

Just finished this movie, & it's quite possibly the best action-comedy I've watched all year. I went in for the cast— Jo Jung-sook (Hospital Playlist) & Im Yoona (Girls Generation), but it turned out to be excitingly engrossing every single minute & hilarious at once. 10/10.

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— 엑시트 Exit (2019)

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1 year

bae suzy is just so unbearably gorgeous in anna

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2 years

twt user dotinglyricism captures my day in vivid detail yet again

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1 year

possibly not the best time to be posting this poem at 5 am, when almost all of my mutuals are asleep. but i wrote this now, and it's called dawn. so here goes.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

found this gorgeous poem. ethics, by linda pastan.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

@Joseph_Fasano_ Elena, by Pat Mora

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@PhoenixTesni

1 month

one of the strongest benefits of reading—esp fiction, is that it develops empathy and compassion for perspectives different than yours. it lets you live lives that you cannot live otherwise, lets you see things from a point of view once inaccessible through your own experiences.

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i don’t want to be rude genuinely, but why is discussions about literature getting reduced to I don’t feel seen or represented? why is it that relatability is the most important thing a book can offer you?

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

EVERYONE GOOGLE QUEER AND CLICK ON THE PRIDE HEART A BUNCH OF TIMES GO

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

i think i'm in love with this poem. to be loved is to be understood!!

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

#HanHyoJoo in 2006 (spring waltz) vs 2023 ( #moving ) asking 몇시에요: What time is it?

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New Delhi, this is Kutty. Does anyone have the resources to raise him? He's been my best friend for the past decade. Due to severely unforeseen circumstances, we're having to rehome him. He's 9 years old & is not neutered & unvaccinated. Please RT for reach.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

a little ode to laughter, written completely through rose coloured glasses. here's "when I was younger, I used to mistake laughter for love."

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

@_choikangho the way they've spaced out the episodes is so crucial but netflix also does shows where you have to wait every week!

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

polyamorous people are like "i like falling in love with multiple people!!" & then monogamous people immediately feel the urge to reply with "if that were me i'd murder my man. like i'd go to jail for torturing him & then i'd dïe in front of him. also ur sense of love is warped."

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

wednesday, may 31. new delhi.

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1 year

miss about being single* guys sorry i really need to start believing in twitter drafts

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1 year

@postnuclearjoan @kerfuffle101 a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one

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1 year

hello, please stop everything you're doing for a moment & look at this little clay pizza dish i made!! 🍕💌

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

@ctrlzahra they invented the concept of love actually

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1 year

phoenix has depressing thoughts everyday– but for some reason she can verbalise it well on sundays. here's a journal entry.

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

we make chili the morning after: a kitchen poem about grief

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1 year

nothing more insane than when you're AT home in your comfort space and your brain keeps going "i wanna go home"

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1 year

the second picture made me feel some type of way, so i looked it up & they're from Devic Fotos, a duo who work on wedding photography. this shoot is for a couple named Hannah & Dustin, shot in the week leading up to their wedding day. these pictures have me in a trance.

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9 months

we haven't had a phoenix tesni poem on the timeline in a long while now. here's postscript, by yours dearly.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

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1 year

A bit more on that

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2 years

if day 1 was about loneliness, today's poem is about long distance friendships, imaginary jenga nights & platonic yearning. #NaPoWriMo take two, Love Poem To My Best Friends Who Live In Different Corners Of The World.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

happy diwali to my gorgeous mutuals 💜✨

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

I wrote a poem called "my dentist told me he wanted to live in one of my teeth" & I really want someone to read it for me. Is anyone up for it

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

despite, despite, despite, despite, despite

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1 year

think i spent today with the most gorgeous person to exist

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2 years

i just had SIX poems accepted in @healthline_zine ?????????

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

guys look i'm wearing the earrings i made myself

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11 months

you gave my newsletter so much love this past week— thank u sm to all the new people who've subscribed & to everyone who asked me to read the piece! i'll come up with something for my next one soon— especially now that we have a hundred & fifty more friends reading 'phee speaks'!

ART IS WHERE I BELONG.

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Love and devastation co exist

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1 year

anyway I'm watching #NineteentoTwenty now & if anything happens to Noh Hee-Ji. I've adopted this girl as a little sister to me already. I will personally be throwing hands if they give her the same ending that they gave to An Yea-won or Park Se-jeong in #SinglesInferno .

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

i dont understand the male gaze in general at all but i ESPECIALLY don't understand the korean male gaze bcs any time i watch a reality dating show it's always the girl i like MOST getting snubbed for whatever reason. most of it is bcs her face isn't "small" or "pale" like?? bffr

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vincent giarrano gets me fr. like that's me

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@proyearning

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1 year

phoenix tesni brings you an august poem: to all the girls who thought wanting was enough. for us it was enough.

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painted a new case for my phone!

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9 months

the original tortured poet

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1 year

@ronawang man's done a phd in humility

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

good morning, poets & poems! starting the day off with this piece entitled "something borrowed, everything blue", out in the latest issue of @CrabAppleLit !! thank you to the editors for housing this piece in issue three <3

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2 years

i saw the prettiest girl in the entire world today and then i really wanted to tell her and i thought i wouldn't be able to but she accidentally stopped in front of me SO I DID and then she started laughing all shy & then i started stuttering like a gay idiot

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

so many incredible poems about oranges & clementines in the world

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1 year

Split — a new poem about separation & herringbone tiles.

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

every conversation with my cat goes like: - you're very tiny - do you know how tiny you are - who authorised you to be as tiny as you are - did you know your ears are even tinier - incoherent noises

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1 year

everyone look here, i tried making clay jewellery for the first time!! i'm going to make more <3 🐝🌙🍓🐱

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twt user phoenixtesni revisits with another hopeful vision of the future- a future in which sadness is always overshadowed by love & the joy that comes along with it. here's mariage d'amor.

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@PhoenixTesni

1 year

i was having an incredibly difficult time NOT crushing on her so i looked up her age just in case to see if she was underaged and she's... THIRTY ONE?

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

i would literally rather die than ever changing a poem's formatting without the explicit consent of the poet in anything i publish.

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

Here it is. Somewhere In A Dream, a small zine I'm putting together for young artists & poets- send in your more dream-like, ethereal works. Submission Guidelines below, and link in bio to submit. I can't wait to see what you come up with! ☁️✨

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

having some thoughts about releasing a small, independent themed zine with work from young poets. will this happen

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hi, one of my poems came out in the latest issue of @palestbluezine !! go check their issue out- it's absolutely brilliant <3

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1 year

@nessapjm HAHAHHAA BYE he'd go all out on the babygirlism

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@PhoenixTesni

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@seizingdream I love the witcher but putting it on the same level as monster & handmaiden is truly criminal

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hello! my new interactive short fiction game, water, is not active at [] ! it's about nostalgia, loss, and absolution, and simultaneously about none of these in the process. i hope you like it!

water | Phoenix Tesni

an interactive, playable story about loss, nostalgia, and absolution. designed and written by phoenix tesni.

www.phoenixtesni.com

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@stfuvibesyaar iss baar jo hua tha march mein uski baat kar rahi thi. the entire timeline was so ooh ahh human connection! moon shadows! and we were like... 😃... 😐... 😴.

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1 year

@FailSandwichOwO @k1ngbadger this is EXACTLY how i read it

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@PhoenixTesni

2 years

delighted to inform you that I have two new poems coming up in @lunarjournal !! They sent me such beautiful, detailed, and helpful feedback with every poem- what a joy to submit to & have your works read by them!

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oh do i have more of these!!! 🍊🍊🍊🍊