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poet, performer, visual artist, salt farm girl ✨️
tender art & island myths 🌸
2025 Jack McCarthy Prize finalist 📖
archival poems: @honeyjarpoems 🍯

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was listening to a lot of @piss_theband and feeling very normal when I wrote this ✨️
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#poetry #poem #confessionalpoetry #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram by @queenessine

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17 days ago

Do you want the House Tour? Well, bitch, you got it, because we are being proactive (a word I have never once used before) about fall vibes and fall fun 🏠🎃 Also I think me and the voiceover just became best friends. Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my HGTV show 🍂 by @queenessine

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22 days ago

My favorite island poem, dedicated to moon-mad boys in every rural town 💡🌙

Read the full poem below 🕯👇

#poetry #poetryreel #spokenword #poetsoninstagram #islandpoetry by @queenessine

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The last few years I've been writing a letter to each age in the fever dream that is my 20s. My letter to 27, I thought about for months: maybe I would just write a manifesto of every horrible thing that went wrong. Maybe it would be like my other letters and end all soft, neat and bowed up, pretty and easy for someone to digest. I didn't pull off the thorns; I'm proud of every mark left. Thanks for the grit, the loneliness, & the light, dear 27 🥀✨️🌹 Hard-won wisdom is yours to keep 💋 by @queenessine

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Forest Saint No. 1 is off at the Fair 🍄⭐️🦶
Go give her a kiss and a wave for me!!

I have never been this obsessed with a drawn foot before. She really has some jacked-ass Shel Silverstein-style toes and that make me oh-so-happy 💯 by @queenessine

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2 months ago

Remember when August wasn't about root canal budgets and PTSD flare-ups, but really good sex in Boston? 🌞

“August, Jamaica Plain”
a bead of sweat in a mid-summer poem for you 💌
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#poetry #poem #confessionalpoetry #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram by @queenessine

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2 months ago

she just a little nervous 🦪🙆‍♀️ by @queenessine

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2 months ago

ON THIS SUNDAY, the day of the Lord and Living Room Floor Poems, strap in, put your earmuffs on, and prepare for the personal return of the century:

THIS POEM IS GOING TO SCREAM
WHAM-BAM-THANK-YOU-MA'AM" 💥👊🗣

Poem text in comments below ✨️🗣 by @queenessine

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2 months ago

"i want to live", 2026 🙏⭐️
every time I can't see the meaning and being has become unbearable, the overwhelming and underlying thrum of life taps my shoulder. I have never had a life that wasn't a rapid succession of all.
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#poetry #poem #confessionalpoetry #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram by @queenessine

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2 months ago

Living Room Floor Poems presents... "My Things" 📦✨️ As a good hoarder, collector, and one too afraid to let go: my ode to tangible & intangible ⭐️stuff⭐️ I carry around. My Mexican fire opal, the cardigan everyone thinks is a robe, and my identity as a John Waters-influenced radical feminist at 15 INCLUDED.

Poem text in comments below 📦👇 by @queenessine

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2 months ago

"life is meant for you", July 2026 🌿💔 Do it afraid. Do it lonely. Do it because you were born to be no better and no worse; you were born to sip the resiliency of all experience 🫶
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#poetry #poem #confessionalpoetry #poetsofinstagram writersofinstagram pnwpoets poetrycommunity by @queenessine

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3 months ago

THE MR. PINKY CUT 👚🎀🐷💘 My first & never last drag show 💋

Come for the air humping, stay for the air humping.
Bringing you a tight Coco Montrese, RPDR Season 5, Cold Hearted Snake kinda lip sync, kneepads, and riiiings 💅 by @queenessine

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3 months ago