March 2023
“March is when some days are winter and some days are spring, but it’s not a smooth gradient from the beginning of the month to the end.” – Jarod Kintz
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February 2023
“February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.” – Edgar Fawcett
Read More February 2023January 2023
January Howls
Read More January 2023December 2022
“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. / December feels like blood.” — Zinaida Gippius
Read More December 2022November 2022
“I wore the scent of weather inside / my body like a sacred love.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Read More November 2022October 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
Read More October 2022September 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
Read More September 2022August 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
A Place For Everything. 