Archive - Michael’s Substack

Jun 18 •

My Grandmother’s Foraging

The whole thing overflowing; mushrooms, stems, Small flowers with old names I never learned, Sweet berries and odd roots, leaves trailing thin; Washed…

Jun 3 •

May 2025

To the Comedian

The lights go dark, the curtains peel, The clowns possessed by a new zeal Are up on stage. Determined, eager to offend, To trample norms and to…

May 12 •

April 2025

A love letter to a discontinued rum.

Apr 19 •

Him: Oh darling, true, it's all gone wrong.

Apr 5 •

March 2025

A little lizard ran across my desk In green and turquoise inlay, shimmering. A jaunty fella, following a seam Of late afternoon sunshine creeping in…

Mar 4 •

February 2025

The Navigli Strays

Is this seat taken?

Feb 5 •

January 2025

This Caesura Kills Fascists

As inspired by a particularly insipid New York Times editorial.

Jan 10 •

December 2024

Sartorial Desires

Not enough credit is given To the outlines of men’s fashion, Our common skin, a vision Of equality in cotton. And not enough thought is spared For the…

Dec 28, 2024 •

I Click of the knee, like a latch in need of oil, And then the twang of coming back again; Like sex you find it easy or impossible By the dusty road and…

Dec 8, 2024 •

November 2024

The Death of Valentin de Boulogne

Pictures referenced: Martyrdom of St Processo and St Martiniano - Valentin de Boulogne, The Martyrdom of Saint Érasme - Nicolas Poussin.

Nov 25, 2024 •

September 2024

Resort Town in Winter

It’s on the terrace then, that we, those strange off-season crabs, discover what it is we’ve come to play for; diffused gray-shadowed palms, an angry…

Sep 30, 2024 •

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