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Fragments
I started writing a long fiction piece in 2021 and thought I had lost the entire thing but miraculously my laptop which is beyond fucked...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jan 2, 202410 min read


Stream of Song
She holds her longing like a stream of song, her melody a body torn over long-worn borders of the right and the wrong. Crouched deep in...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Dec 23, 20231 min read


Excalibur
Oh, gentle ceasefire: my resigned acceptance lies like sheet-ice on lava. Rose petals hang heavy on the cool surface, perfumed, putrid...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Nov 2, 20231 min read


Articulated Anger and the Gift of Rage
Until recently, I have always told myself that I am not an angry person. I have told myself I hate feeling anger because it’s a useless,...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Oct 28, 20235 min read


Space-time and Circular Beingness.
In an article I once read titled ‘Doty, Deleuze, and "Distance": The Stevens Intertext’ David Jarraway compares how Mark Doty (1953 –...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Oct 25, 20235 min read


Early
Scrub me down to the bone Nothing but splinters Nothing but fragments Of the girl scared to think scared to dream The battlements in her...

Katy Harrison
Sep 28, 20231 min read


The Talking Cure: Disability
Back in 2020 I published this article on what it is like to live with a disabled brother. It is strange reading it again three years...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Sep 28, 20235 min read


Cherry Bonfire
Nestled here in the nape of your neck, I gulp your escaping scent: Bruised cranberry, crushed cherry, bonfire, sweat. To stay here, to...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Sep 17, 20231 min read


On Holding
Language is a holder and art, a harness. I transmogrify the heaviness of my longing into the lightness of craft, suspending the essence...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Nothing as everything
To leave something untouched, unspoken. Is this judgement driven by a fear, a logic- calculation? No action (or rather, inaction) seems...

Katy Harrison
Jul 17, 20232 min read


The Undoing
So, this was it, the great undoing, the tugging of the threads that had been so finely sewn. All this patchwork beingness, all this...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jul 12, 20233 min read


Mother
The only way to describe A mother not for you Is a cosmological headfuck A field of sunflowers, Immeasurable differences. As is nature,...

Katy Harrison
Jul 6, 20231 min read


Rilke, Heartache, and the Majesty of Movement
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” – Rilke. When I recently went through a break up...

Olivia Gurney-Randall
Jun 9, 20238 min read
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