Mine is a heart of carnelian, crimson as murder on a holy day.
from Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (trans. Normandi Ellis)
Mine is a heart of carnelian, crimson as murder on a holy day.
catch typhus
When he offers his lips, go for his throat.


Lizz Hamilton
The Negative Confession
Rib bones, names of unknowable gods
2017


Practically nothing ever died for long. Take compost, for example.