writings and musings.
how to propagate an Aloe barbadensis miller in mid-winter.
Prepare a pot with soil and plenty of drainage. Place the slightly anemic cutting in a well-lit window like Alma told you to that last day in October when you both got drunk on her brother’s peach brandy and she told you she wasn’t long for this world.
blue moon.
She said: “You’re doing it wrong.”
She said: “The top is over here.”
She said: “No, this way!”
She said: “Didn’t you listen to Mum at all? This is why you’re single.”
on rule breaking and swan dives.
The stain against the pool floor hadn’t been a body at first, or at least, it hadn’t from where I’d been sitting in a lifeguard stand over the deep water…