December 2022

“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. / December feels like blood.” — Zinaida Gippius

November 2022

“I wore the scent of weather inside / my body like a sacred love.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta

October 2022

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

September 2022

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2022 • Part III

“The grass in the back field was almost waist high, and now there was goldenrod, that late-summer gossip which comes to tattle on autumn every year. But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
― Stephen King

August 2022 • Part II

“But this girl felt like nectarines and balconies to me. She felt like everything. She felt like a long winter, then a nervous spring, then a sticky summer, and then those last days you never thought you’d get to, the ones that spread themselves out, out, out until they feel like they go on forever. So, August is a person.”
― Casey McQuiston

August 2022 • Part I

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
― Sara Baume

July 2022

“July, that lovely hell, all
velvet dresses and drapes
stuffed into a hot little hole.”
— Laura Kasischke

Hockey • 2022

The legs feed the wolf.

June 2022

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” — Steinbeck