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The Realm of Flora, Reimagined.
The evergreen and the deciduous yearn for one another’s company, To intertwine their vines as one again. Starved of touch and camaraderie, They age with April’s adolescent ache. Delay their reunion, I say. Let me pluck the leaves from each branch before they get chance. Paint them as burnt and iridescent of an orange, To confound the crowns of the trees, And the scents of the soil, So they surrender their seasonal resurrection to you. And bow quietly, they will, To your garde

Fiona
6 days ago1 min read
Reimagined, The Realm of Flora.
The evergreen and the deciduous yearn for one another’s company, To intertwine their vines as one again. Starved of touch and camaraderie, They age with April’s adolescent ache. Delay their reunion, I say. Let me pluck the leaves from each branch before they get chance. Paint them as burnt and iridescent of an orange, To confound the crowns of the trees, And the scents of the soil, So they surrender their seasonal resurrection to you. And bow quietly, they will, To your garde

Fiona
6 days ago1 min read


Female Rage and the Architecture of Patriarchy
Anger is without doubt one of the most fundamental human emotions we possess and yet, somehow it is also one of the most politically...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Oct 46 min read


Too Dior
Mon cher, you're too Dior, you're rose-hip aftershave you're sore and shivering knees you're 'please' I'm sure, my sweet in shorts the...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Sep 201 min read


Holy Ritual
All night, the vines held tight to the trellis, struggling green fingers strangling wood, grape-bodies hanging heavy, their skins...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jul 252 min read


Frame of Reference
There it was: the twisting, rusting, metallic ruin of my past whose oily creases shimmered iridescent against the onyx of half-forgotten...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jun 293 min read


Suite Bergamasque
Morning's playful light dances easy through your blinds as willow warblers chime in on the dawn-song of the robin and wisteria...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Apr 281 min read


All the images will disappear
Press play before reading "Yes. They’ll forget us. Such is our fate, there is no help for it. What seems to us so serious, significant,...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Mar 73 min read


Lakeside on March 1st
At long last the tidal wave was over and I slinked out of my girdled mind like the inner body of a snake escaping its tight, battered...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Mar 12 min read


A Pavlovian Dog on The Naughty Step
The Naughty Step To be intelligent enough to introspect is to become burdened with inspecting the illusion of your intellect. Mum doesn’t...

Fiona
Jan 2612 min read


Longing Space
Lingering on the stairwell, I promise to walk away, knowing that the door must shut for these windows to open. Being sentimental, and...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jan 252 min read


Courage & Glass Grief
After Chelsea DesAutels Start this one with the woman falling from the sky. Or the building - it doesn't matter. What matters is she's...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jan 52 min read


Blisters
I walked and walked but I didn't get small. My blisters didn't heal but my belief in you shrunk, and, yes, I have always wanted to know...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Dec 6, 20241 min read


POLITICS ISN'T AN OPINION
Admist the noise of the past 12 hours, I never expected a stranger's nonchalant Tweet to affect my mood the most... Perhaps it’s my...

Fiona
Nov 6, 20244 min read
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