Reality Bite
Taurus season update: steamed parsnips are delicious
Strength Reversed
Contemplative nonfiction essays, how-to self-therapies, lit crit & theories, poems, and images by Kayla Krut: poet, PhD, & creativity mentor
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Fire Horse Reads: "Help, I'm Alive"
Spoiler: they're all about recovering from overdrive
From the archives: The "unimproveable original"; Gold in the Furnace
Two poems from Vienna 2018 (Kübeckgasse, 1030)
from the archives: Love Symbol #2
Tues 15 August 2017
NOVEMBER 17 2025
BEAT ATTITUDE, 2 (vis-a-vis Rob Sean Wilson's 2010 book of prayers). All lineation ruined by Substack
"But now I'm happy for a time and interested"
Forgiveness from the archives: an unsent letter from my first term of the PhD that traces how the dogs of self-love and autonomy finally started eating my homework (phew)
Blackberry Rainbows: You Come Too
Iterative chitchat, like everything posted here; more or less a letter to a friend
Hungry hungry hippos
lightening up on the occasion of this week's Gemini Full Moon
15 AUGUST 2025
AN ENCINITAS BEAT "BEATITUDE" FROM SUMMERTIME
Apples Full of Stars
October Homecoming: Reclaiming Belonging