fine art photographer + poet heart. 📍coast salish seas, PNW come closer;https://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3likqm4uvtc22there's a mess and fuss to me. i am trailing padfoot, forest, bramble spine— something that leaves your hands cut and cold in time. try as i might to be anything else, i am cedar ash and the translucent veins of a leaf left out in the rain— untouched for so long that she's lovely again. #poetry19 Feb 2025 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3likqm4uvtc22https://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lggo6rfefc2u#poetry #poem #writing23 Jan 2025 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggo6rfefc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lgeqqr6ixs2tI laugh like I'm laid back— but I can lean forward real quick— quick to say "what did you say— say that again for me— what did you mean by it"23 Jan 2025 01:39 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgeqqr6ixs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lgbtvnyno22mI found a tiny emerald insect that looks like a leaflet. It survives on sunlight and blackberry brambles and little dew drops. Maybe this will be me in my next life, if i repent enough. Maybe i don't need love, thorn is enough.21 Jan 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbtvnyno22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lgbt7coo6c2mthere's only hunger— #poetry #poem #book21 Jan 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbt7coo6c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lgbgu2wr7c2jMy poetry book Flock of Starlings is now available on Amazon 🖤 Flock of Starlings a.co/d/iic0RoI21 Jan 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbgu2wr7c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lgb743v4zc2iFun fact: after a prison break led by crows that were trained by inmates to bring them knives, crows became illegal in the US to keep as pets [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jan 2025 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgb743v4zc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lcei5lx4gk2zGrow poppy petal wings and fly away with the fairies. Come back with their secrets to share and stare at your dialating pupils 🦋03 Dec 2024 01:24 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcei5lx4gk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbkga4n6mk2vFlowing linen and silks and grass skinned knees and spinning in the light coming through the window, you crack it open because, "good music needs air" and i stare openly as the golden sun hits your hair. you feel like a cup of tea with a smooch of whiskey and running through a field of red peonies.22 Nov 2024 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkga4n6mk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbihou5qjc2uaura so strong that you could keep me in a padlocked room and what is meant for me will still find me21 Nov 2024 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbihou5qjc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbhzrmuxjs2hhello, i am jen persici 🖤 an Indigenous farmer who grows flowers from seed and incorporates the blooms in my art + writing. retweets appreciated— i own the copyright to all my writing and photography, do not use any of my work without explicit permission 🙏🏾 Mah'si choo (thank you)21 Nov 2024 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhzrmuxjs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbhzhff7xs2ha poem from my book, hoping for a January 2025 release 🙏🏾21 Nov 2024 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhzhff7xs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbhyumtk5k2hhold me like something holy21 Nov 2024 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhyumtk5k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbhtf3l4ys22if you're not obsessed with me then what are we doing here?21 Nov 2024 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhtf3l4ys22https://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbghawxp7k26trying to find a way to say i want you to crawl into my chest and live there21 Nov 2024 02:48 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbghawxp7k26https://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbg4x2in222sThree word poem: he's not you20 Nov 2024 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbg4x2in222shttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbfsf4ee6s2wBotticelli would have wept20 Nov 2024 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfsf4ee6s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbfokqlffm2e"theres a sigh for restless a sigh for longing a sigh for "you're still not home" three sighs that leave me empty— i'm full of you even when you're gone."20 Nov 2024 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfokqlffm2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3lbfoftoihe2edoes she keep my name between tongue and teeth or is it something heavy she carries tucked under big white wings. it feels like summer heat should be wrapped around me but it's shades of gray, the feathers are sodden— wet. this is where black and white intersect.20 Nov 2024 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfoftoihe2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kint23l4x62zThere's "i'd give you up to save the world" hero energy and then there is the superior "i would burn the entire world to ash just to keep you warm" morally gray energy10 Jan 2024 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kint23l4x62zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kinpo7z4kv2iif he doesn't give off "if i couldn't walk to you, i'd crawl" energy, then i don't want him10 Jan 2024 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kinpo7z4kv2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kikyahbfvw25i hope you hold laughter on a leash and sunshine cowers to your call, i hope even then you still feel fucking small. i'm not "no contact" i'm full contact, love, the gloves are off. i hope you get everything you've ever wanted and it's still not enough.09 Jan 2024 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kikyahbfvw25https://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kiky7qszmg2ai can see why you hate my golden aura when yours is dark blue. you threw dirt on my name and flowers grew, i'd be mad too. i hope you feel so much joy from the top of your head down to your toes, and in that moment i hope you think "this doesn't come close to touching her glow".09 Jan 2024 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kiky7qszmg2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kiky3uybzd2zloving and losing you is like making and holding eye contact with darkness. to realize i've been in darkness my whole life, born of it. that i'm the thing darkness fears, after all these years. i can see why you loathe every inch of my heart, i can see why you scoff at my words and art.09 Jan 2024 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kiky3uybzd2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kij2ha2t2l2efuck a weak fingered lover who whispers to the roses just to watch them blush, give me the bad men with calloused hands unphased by the thorns unphased by blood, he'll drum a chorus on my stems and savor the bud the bloom the wilt, my petals in the mud.09 Jan 2024 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kij2ha2t2l2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jenpersici.bsky.social/post/3kiizeq5eym25here to write about how i'd like your fingers in my mouth before our first kiss happens08 Jan 2024 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:pp5u2cehhxubbchtmventqxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kiizeq5eym25