Michelle

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Aphelion

#Poet: The dirtiest four letter word I know.

Blog: https://michellejoygallagher.com/
Shop: https://www.nihtgengapress.com/

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Last Notes

2026-03-10 18:43:21 GMT

The wound
Will heal
When you
Stop touching
It.
#poetry

2026-02-10 19:23:45 GMT

This is a
Conduit
Through
Which I
Can hold
You for
Just a
Moment.
Hello, you
Are loved.
#poetry

2026-02-09 19:47:44 GMT

Every time
I’ve thought
“I want to
Die,” what
I really
Meant was
“I want to
Live.”
#poetry

2026-02-07 22:19:18 GMT

If we are to know
The light in
Ourselves,
We must first
Look for the
Light in each
Other.
#poetry

2026-02-06 07:08:20 GMT

When you remember you’re living in a clown world things start to make more sense.

2026-02-03 01:38:18 GMT

I am a woman of a certain rage.

2026-01-28 19:10:41 GMT

Let my rage
Speak for all
The women in
My bloodline
Who were silenced:
We will not succumb.
Not this time.
We will overcome.
#poetry

2026-01-26 19:44:24 GMT

When surrounded
By murderers,
It is revolutionary
To live.
#poetry

2026-01-23 21:59:48 GMT

There are
Enough stars
In your veins
To ward off
The coming dark.
Just being alive
Is resistance.
#poetry

2026-01-23 01:56:44 GMT

Dissociated so hard I kinda started liking myself

2026-01-20 21:20:21 GMT

Take the
Catastrophe
Of my bones
And remind me
Of the fire
Inside of them.
#poetry

2026-01-20 00:28:04 GMT

Don’t be afraid of big accounts here. One tried to drag me today and it affected my follower count 0%
Speak your mind. Your people will find you.

2026-01-17 01:07:10 GMT

Today it has been a year without David Lynch.
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2026-01-16 23:43:31 GMT

Starlight travels
Billions of miles
To terminate
Behind your eyes,
And you still find
Yourself unworthy?
#poetry

2026-01-14 18:27:32 GMT

Drinking coffee til it’s time to drink wine.

2026-01-08 18:12:33 GMT

I am
All full
Of dead
Stars
And
Living
Hope.
#poetry

2026-01-08 01:17:18 GMT

When one
Voice is silenced,
It is our duty
To start
Screaming
#poetry

2026-01-03 00:15:15 GMT

Just a reminder, you can read the zine featuring my poetry for free at the link below
https://metalhead.club/@swampgas/115749270692721891

2025-12-28 23:28:41 GMT

I’m the woman of your dreams, except it’s the dream where you fall from a high place.

2025-12-27 06:11:57 GMT

I’m not here. This isn’t happening.

2025-12-27 02:56:26 GMT

Grant us the
Light of
The stars we
Fell from,
And the strength
Of the stone
We will become.
#poetry

2025-12-16 22:00:37 GMT

I will relinquish
The stones of
Grief I’ve carried,
And let love
Surface.
#poetry

2025-12-16 01:41:50 GMT

I’m 2 years older than Danny Glover was when he said “I’m too old for this shit.” That’s how it’s goin.

2025-12-15 21:06:44 GMT

So many people are hurting. My most sincere wish is that light finds you, right now wherever you are, and reminds you there’s still hope.

2025-12-02 22:51:37 GMT

Let go
All pretense,
And remember
Who you were
Before they
Told you who
You were going
To be.
#poetry

2025-11-30 01:45:04 GMT

The more
You listen
To the voice
Inside that says
“Hope lives,”
The louder
It gets.
#poetry

2025-11-27 20:59:42 GMT

Fuck this colonizer holiday!
I’m still gonna eat tho…

2025-11-22 21:59:47 GMT

Give me the sky
Full of the corpse light
Of distant stars to
Guide me back
To myself.
#poetry

2025-11-19 23:52:30 GMT

The singularity
Spoke in explosion,
Said “there will be
Light, of which you
Are a part.”
#poetry

2025-11-15 01:53:28 GMT

Your skin an
Accusation
Against the
Hard world,
Without mercy,
We make such
Soft violence
#poetry

2025-11-13 20:43:35 GMT

When I was a young girl, I would have waves of feeling like nothing was real, as if I was some other form of life looking in on mine and finding it strange. I thought it was a superpower, but now I know that it’s just major dissociation.

2025-11-09 04:04:31 GMT

You’re in his DMs, I’m frightening the townsfolk. We are not the same.

2025-11-06 02:43:18 GMT

Thank you, fedi, for being a place of peace for me 🖤

2025-11-04 19:41:33 GMT

Does honey
Remember
The comb?
Hexagonal and
Golden,
And do your
Atoms remember
The core of
The star that
Made them?
Ask yourself
When next
You burn.
#poetry

2025-11-03 20:48:50 GMT

May our empathy
Never atrophy
In a world
Built on
Apathy.
#poetry

2025-10-29 22:13:59 GMT

You must
Realize:
The light
Belongs to you,
And is not to be
Dimmed by
Those who
Cannot
Perceive
Their own.
#poetry

2025-10-24 04:31:50 GMT

Logging on for the night shift
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2025-10-23 19:27:05 GMT

Don’t ask a family member to do something you wouldn’t ask a stranger to do. Simple.

2025-10-21 03:32:49 GMT

Boost = forehead kiss, right?

2025-10-21 00:18:21 GMT

This is where I post from if you even care
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2025-10-19 22:52:47 GMT

Not clicking on your bluesky links. No, thank you.

2025-10-18 19:07:50 GMT

- reply

thank you for this translation! 🖤🖤🖤

2025-10-18 19:03:09 GMT

Time is a
Adorned
By you,
A faceted
Jewel
Made of
Starlight.
#poetry

2025-10-16 20:29:58 GMT

I say something funny somehow —> people follow me —> I post poetry —> people unfollow me.
Follow me for more fedi tips.

2025-10-14 06:05:15 GMT

Poetry slams should be wrestling matches between poets.

2025-10-13 17:11:57 GMT

Fuck Christopher Columbus
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

2025-10-13 01:57:38 GMT

I woke up like this (seething with rage)

2025-10-10 18:27:44 GMT

My nervous system watching me fill the coffee pot again
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2025-10-09 02:38:25 GMT

Exhausted from being perceived

2025-10-05 21:37:28 GMT

Me and an entire pot of coffee
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2025-09-30 19:20:31 GMT

In spite of
The darkness
Inside you,
You burn like
The Sun.
#poetry

2025-09-27 22:29:13 GMT

People post bluesky links and it renders as the person’s avatar, so it’ll be like “this was bound to happen” and it’s just a closeup of a guy’s face.

2025-09-27 04:06:24 GMT

I am grateful
That I am made
More of stars
Than silence.
#poetry

2025-09-24 03:31:55 GMT

Me: *socializes for 1 hour*
Me afterward:
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2025-09-23 23:44:33 GMT

You were
Born from
The light of
A thousand
Stars, you
Needn’t fear
The dark.
#poetry

2025-09-21 23:55:17 GMT

May this
Suffering
Become
So much
Kindling
For the
Fire inside
Us all,
That we may
One day
Outshine
The dark.
#poetry

2025-09-07 00:10:30 GMT

You are not
Broken, you
Are a prism,
Every fracture
Refracting
The light.
#poetry

2025-09-05 17:55:04 GMT

Bring me
The open
Casket
Of night,
Let the stars
Burn me
Alive inside
Of it.
#poetry

2025-09-04 02:25:37 GMT

There will come
A night that is
The last night,
And the stars
Will burn brighter
Having forgotten
Your name, and
Remembered
Their own.
#poetry

2025-08-31 02:46:14 GMT

Never forget
The darkness
Inside of you
Is teeming
With stars.
#poetry

2025-08-25 16:15:09 GMT

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post! Post! Post!

2025-08-25 06:30:53 GMT

There is a map
In you that I
Follow back
To find myself.
#poetry

2025-08-23 22:25:56 GMT

You’re in his DMs, I’m in the LHC looking for a portal to another universe. We are not the same.

2025-08-22 02:23:48 GMT

You’re in his DMs, I’m in the DSM-5. We are not the same.

2025-08-21 01:21:17 GMT

Dudes that flirt with people with AI profile pictures, are you ok?

2025-08-18 18:06:26 GMT

You’re in his DMs, I’m cutting his brake lines. We are not the same.

2025-08-18 04:44:37 GMT

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2025-08-11 00:10:46 GMT

I’m too old to chase men. That’s why I have attack dogs.

2025-08-10 05:21:56 GMT

I never felt
So lonely
As when
I learned
Your name
#poetry

2025-08-08 07:47:33 GMT

Put on a trench coat and ask me if I wanna solve some mysteries.

2025-08-08 04:07:27 GMT

“You look happier.”
Thanks, I’ve gone completely insane.

2025-08-07 20:48:06 GMT

We have all
Fallen from the
Same stars
Into each others
Arms, to illuminate
The dark.
#poetry

2025-08-06 01:57:36 GMT

I’ll meet the stars
As lowly dust,
And they will still
Welcome me
Home.
#Poetry

2025-07-27 03:02:08 GMT

You told me
Love would
Never break
My bones
With a sledgehammer
Behind your back.
#poetry

2025-07-17 01:22:36 GMT

I’ve borrowed
This body
From the stars,
From the grave,
A debt that will
One day be
Repaid in
Full.
#poetry

2025-07-10 19:19:57 GMT

Let the stars
Help you to remember
What living makes you
Forget:
You are a mote of dust,
You are the whole sky.
#poetry

2025-07-06 19:39:19 GMT

Perhaps the stars
Are funeral pyres
For all that’s died
In me, what can be
Resurrected in fire
Waiting.
#poetry

2025-07-01 18:54:55 GMT

Me to me: don’t be weird, don’t say anything weird.
Me after 2 drinks:
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2025-06-12 20:45:56 GMT

SPEARPOINT is live on Kickstarter now!
As the world burns, British witches face off against Nazi occultists in this thrilling WW2 fantasy/horror comic, written & coloured by Matt Soffe, drawn by the excellent Benito Gallego, and featuring this stunning variant cover by the legendary Staz Johnson.
#comics #WWII #Occult #Kickstarter
http://kck.st/3Fl8zmW
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2025-06-11 01:28:55 GMT

You’re in his DMs, I’m in his nightmares. We are not the same.

2025-05-29 22:12:19 GMT

You’re in his DM’s, I’m the void he screams into. We are not the same.

2025-05-27 17:54:53 GMT

Sometimes
Silence is
The only way
We have left
To scream.
#poetry

2025-05-23 00:39:42 GMT

Bury me
Shallowly,
So that the
Stars know
Where to
Find me.
#poetry

2025-05-17 02:41:22 GMT

“Eons” from Library on Fire, my 3rd volume of #poetry available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com
Only 2 copies left!
#Books #indie #poem
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2025-05-15 20:29:09 GMT

“Multitudes” is a #haiku from Library on Fire, my 3rd volume of #poetry available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire
#books #indie #poem
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2025-05-14 18:26:34 GMT

A graveyard
Of stars
Won’t bear
The wishes of
My heart.
Ghost to
Ghost,
We both
Disappear.
#poetry

2025-05-13 22:50:31 GMT

Let me be
Twilight for
A time,
Velvet and
Diamonds
Reaching
Out into
Forever.
#poetry

2025-05-10 21:16:16 GMT

New 3”x 3” stickers available in the shop!The poem is “Become”, one of my favorites from Library on Fire. https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/become-sticker. Free shipping in the US!
#poetry #books #sticker
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2025-05-04 21:45:46 GMT

As time and
Gravity are
Irrevocably
Entwined,
So too are we.
Infinity rests
Between each
Breath, and
Beckons our
Transitory
Lives toward
Their end.
#poetry

2025-04-28 20:34:42 GMT

The feral roses that guard my bedroom window #bloomscrolling
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2025-04-28 18:50:32 GMT

“Rise” from Library on Fire. 395 pages of burning #poetry available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire
Thank you for supporting an independent author! 🖤
#books #indie #bookstodon
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2025-04-25 19:42:14 GMT

Anyone care to venture out into the deep woods with me and just scream?

2025-04-21 23:16:53 GMT

The disorder in me
Calls to god entropy
And asks to be
Redeemed.
#poetry

2025-04-18 01:53:48 GMT

I pray to
The god
Of fragile
Things
To give me
Back my
Heart.
#poetry

2025-04-15 21:48:52 GMT

Sorrowed night
Has left me blind.
Take the veil
From my eyes,
And let me
See the stars.
#poetry

2025-04-15 20:18:47 GMT

Here I am
Holding my
Broken pieces
Up to the light
Again,
Hoping for
Color.
#poetry

2025-04-14 04:35:46 GMT

Deleting bad poetry is liberating.

2025-04-12 22:29:46 GMT

We recollect
In shadow
What we
Cannot bear
In light,
A curse writ
In old tomes
Of memory.
#poetry

2025-04-09 20:39:53 GMT

Candles
In a cathedral,
The stars
Hold our
Prayers.
#poetry

2025-04-04 23:16:06 GMT

The air
Still smells
Of honeysuckle
Despite the
Decay
In my
Head.
#poetry