Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne



Queer Birthday Call

Morgan says, happy birthing of the meat. Time isn’t real, Billie says, but the body trusts it still like a loser. Discord is shit, the world is a fuck and you’re older and dad to a shifty cat; Ulysses is …

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Sonnet watching Lions Love (…and Lies)

After Agnes Varda Outside the rented house, Andy Warhol is shot. RFK is shot. The camera visits a memento store for blacklisted Hollywood stars. Yes, film is always already nostalgic. The 60’s avenue in colour: there are large fenders, gloriously …

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Eco/burial

The wind is leaving through the leavings, through the cut sprig in your hand the pressed daffodil seedling a single feather in bush. Light a match, burn them together: scent is the most bio-degradable sense; they entangle there like roots, …

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The kingdom, hero absent

after Breath of the Wild A still lack of verbs in the landscape: cliffs still the climate— rain on the grass, mist off the streaming, lighting in the draw-distance— still temperate, monsters unhelpful, but no new aggro, no random encounters. …

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Trading Cards

You suggest playing Pokémon cards with the saints, their diversity and collectible-wide range passing dry winters in Coyoacán, a street musician’s distance from a plaster, huge Christ-child, ice-blue, genitalia revealed. Play in the patio we recognise is catching more specific …

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Darwin Memorial Library

The library held the bridge of heaven: a 4-metre squared skylight, solving water large enough for hush, and – a child’s Richter scale of vowels and first words: duhk, back-bird, cook-hoo, the fiction section, the giant cat-fish making the earth …

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