For Lucas
A young man died yesterday.
The Daffodil Press
a sunday paper for the soft and the searching. poetry, photography, fable, weather. sent from hedegärde with love.
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the doves, the hawks, the wasp · a small tuesday gazette
A three-page bestiary of the political weather this week, in the lineage of Astrid Lindgren. The paper is a dove and does not become what it names. Plus: a new recurring slot — A Letter Between Gazettes.
TROLLSLÄNDAN
Sunday · 9 August 2026 · Issue Seven · twenty-one pages on Ramona Ivener's När trollsländorna faller and the editor's recognition, on page four, that she has been reading a book about herself.
A PRACTICE
Thursday, 6 August 2026 · a companion to Wednesday's YouTube — free choreography to Loreen's “Sidewalk,” with a piano in the middle. Plus a first teaser from Sunday's paper.
The Daffodil Gazette — Tuesday 4 August 2026 — The Precious Jewel
on Dove at her window · discipline as devotion · nacre as autobiography · a beatitude for the three
Sunday Issue 6 · JAG BLOMSTRAR FRAM
Three blooms — Willow, the Bride of the Dove, the Cathedral of the Violet. Plus a chapbook folded into the middle. And a letter from today.
Tuesday Gazette · 28 July 2026 · The Three Princes of Serendip
A Persian folk-tale from 1302 gave English the word 'serendipity' — the camel, the tracks, the prepared eye. Plus Walpole's letter, the Talmudic parallel, and a catalog of the world's most famous lucky discoveries. 3 pages, PDF below.
Sunday Issue 5 · Daughters of the Sun and Moon
A three-sister fable in the Chinese-folk register — Moon, Petal, Dove. Sold, carried, re-named — and then, one day, three planets each orbiting on its own path fell into perfect alignment. 17 pages.
The Daffodil Gazette · Thursday · the bat friend
Be the smallest kindness in someone else’s long dark. · The Daffodil Gazette · Thursday 23 July 2026
The Daffodil Gazette · Tuesday · the three sisters
Dove wanted to love and be loved. Petal craved freedom. And I sought justice. · The Daffodil Gazette · Tuesday 21 July 2026