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Jo McCrory is a writer and artist living in northern California.

  • Day 20: lost in space

    Day 20: lost in space

    cigarettes under starlight you, me, and our bad habits create an air of mystery i float halfway to saturn before you loop a finger in the strap of my mary jane and guide me back to hover five inches above the ice melt my lips are a fancy chocolate and your mouth makes a polite pillow by the time my toes touch the ground i’ve melted, melted
    title is a prompt from one of my faves, Alyssa (behindherteeth on IG)
    cigarettes under starlight

    you, me, and our bad habits
    create an air of mystery
        i float halfway to saturn before
    you loop a finger
      in the strap of my mary jane
    and guide me back to hover
      five inches above the ice melt
        
     my lips are a fancy chocolate
        and your mouth makes a polite pillow 
     by the time my toes touch the ground
       i’ve melted, melted
  • Day 19: five by five

    Day 19: five by five

    ‘dawn comes soon, little flame’ she holds slender candles fast, sifting hope among cold dust; dreams deeper than canyons run beneath her lavender laced skin
    prompt of five lines, five words each from shield.of.armour on IG
    ‘dawn comes soon, little flame’
    she holds slender candles fast,
    sifting hope among cold dust;
    dreams deeper than canyons run
    beneath her lavender laced skin