Emma Bolden

he does, he is very interested in pottery and glassware. mostly knocking it off of the table.

truly the best of all hobbies

i lost mine and it physically hurts my heart

it is the best blush and IT IS ETERNAL

my hobbies include taking pictures of my cat and then looking at pictures of my cat

the half-life of your average container of blush is 1,000 years. archeologists of the far future will still be able to use the samples of nars orgasm you got from sephora.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

thank you!!!

thank you so much!

ahhh thank you!

thank you!!!

Golgotha Emma Bolden Flayed flat, a lion, a night burnished bright. There was a sea of cloth and fang. There was a woman who sang all night, a single note the birds caught in their beaks. There was a miracle or there wasn’t. There was the holy spectacle of belief. The people swore it meant something, the way they shook, the way terror thorned through the trees, but everything continued to exist, flat as a painting, as the open breaking through a wound. There was a sky. The blue-lipped the worms did their work. The people looked at each other and saw ignition, their own terrors crowning them in perfect, piercing arrows of flame.

i'm very honored to have two poems in the latest issue of waxwing, including this one, which feels ... timely. you can visit both poems and the rest of the issue, which i'm lucky to be a part of, here: waxwingmag.org

My New Doctor Asks Me If I’ve Ever Used Tobacco Products I lie because I don’t want my insurance rates to go up, because he has my family history right in front of him where it says both my parents died of lung cancer. Even if he’s too polite to say it, …

Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine I’ve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. 🐳 🗺️ 📓

god this is so so heartbreakingly good

cramming for this eye exam looking at every fucking thing I can

the only good thing to come out of the new wuthering heights movie is that i see kate bush dancing every time i get on social media

a gummy worm on a leaf next to more nature

nature is so beautiful

few things feel more dystopian than the stock market

the accuracy is stunning

jesus christ

preparing for a video call by having a conversation with my cat about how no one on the call wants or needs to see his butt

one time i was crying in my car and the google earth truck drove by and i just turned around and went to taco bell bc that seemed like the only right thing to do

just me yelling “TALK TO THE PHARMACIST” at the automated agent with the power of every breath i have ever taken into my lungs

Opens Zoom: Hello, radiant child. Enjoy your Vaseline-inspired filters!

Opens Teams: GET BACK IN THE CRYPT, HELL HAG

omg please apologize to bentley, i was just talking about it with prince gristle while i gave him his little soup on his morning floor pillow

excellent point, probably 100 is closer

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

firmly believe every pet owner has at least one daily ritual with their pet that they can never talk about bc it is so crazy

MEMORIES & MILESTONES FROM BIRMINGHAM TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD: CELEBRATING FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS A special locally-produced Black History Month program celebrating the life and legacy of François Clemmons, Grammy-winning singer…

this program about François Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons on Mr. Rogers, was outstandingly good. posting for people outside the wbhm listening area bc damn this was good

wbhm.org/memories-mil...