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ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social 💌 alocasia.org/newsletter 🌱🌱🌱 ALOCASIA.org

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Jacob JB @jajobi.bsky.social · 7h
The neighbor’s son hops a burning fence to save a blue jay.—Huýnh Giffin in @anmlymag.bsky.social anmly.org/ap42/kyla-ye...
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Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin – ANMLY
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Jacob JB @jajobi.bsky.social · 8h
“The black, tannic tupelo tea of the stream has almost no perceptible current, so paddle strokes disturb what seems like centuries of silence.” —Watkins on @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/nonfict...
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Paddling Through Hell: Florida’s Nonbinary Wetlands - Terrain.org
"Paddling Through Hell: Florida’s Nonbinary Wetlands" is a Letter to America by Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins from Tate's Hell State Forest, Florida.
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5h
"I learned to read him as leaves do with air: minute changes, living turning toward or away from harm. I’d feel them rise veins flushing toward the surface heat rising, capillaries swelling..." —Alexia Cousineau alocasia.org/2026/08/11/a...
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Alexia Cousineau :: “Outgrowth” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you to everyone who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipients, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin and Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins! We know they will do great things with this support. 🌱✨
Purple floral background. Text reading: The 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. This year's awardees are Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin and Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins. Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"They bulldozed the orchard last year, slapped down pavement, planted a Texaco where the trees used to be. Some nights you can still smell the fruit fermenting beneath the asphalt, the air holding on like it remembers" —Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...
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Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"They bulldozed the orchard last year, slapped down pavement, planted a Texaco where the trees used to be. Some nights you can still smell the fruit fermenting beneath the asphalt, the air holding on like it remembers" —Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...
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Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” – ALOCASIA
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And don't miss online works from @alocasiamag.bsky.social, @beestung.bsky.social, @tahomareview.bsky.social, @theoffingmag.bsky.social, and @newenglandreview.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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A Reading List for National Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.  …
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't miss work from ALOCASIA by Camille Cornu translated from the French by Sam Nartus-Fois!
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't miss work from ALOCASIA by Camille Cornu translated from the French by Sam Nartus-Fois!
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
we're open 🌵🌱🍃☄️ alocasia.org/about-send-w...
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Lupin Thurrott @tenwordsproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I will be thinking about this all day. 💜
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Bruising is terraforming. Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves. Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple, like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force and bounce back blue." —Rukman Ragas alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
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Rukman Ragas :: “The body, a planet to terraform” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Bruising is terraforming. Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves. Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple, like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force and bounce back blue." —Rukman Ragas alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"...you were covered in your own sweat / sometimes people just want to be forgiven / you said that / there will be a garden during the apocalypse / because there still has to be something that survives /" —Blue Đào Nguyễn alocasia.org/2026/04/22/b...
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Blue Đào Nguyễn :: “an ode to having a heart outside of itself disguised as shit posts on the internet” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"...you were covered in your own sweat / sometimes people just want to be forgiven / you said that / there will be a garden during the apocalypse / because there still has to be something that survives /" —Blue Đào Nguyễn alocasia.org/2026/04/22/b...
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Blue Đào Nguyễn :: “an ode to having a heart outside of itself disguised as shit posts on the internet” – ALOCASIA
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn’t know it was #LitMagWeek until just now. There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/ @claudineliterary.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"He rambles on about moving my body, but I wish this forest Would just eat me. Envelope me in the moss, the ragged Earth. Compost my body." —Sadee Bee :: “On his mental health walk, I find” alocasia.org/2026/08/11/s...
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Sadee Bee :: “On his mental health walk, I find” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"He rambles on about moving my body, but I wish this forest Would just eat me. Envelope me in the moss, the ragged Earth. Compost my body." —Sadee Bee :: “On his mental health walk, I find” alocasia.org/2026/08/11/s...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.
The 2026 ALOCASIA

Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List

Jaq Hack

Fiona Jin

Tara Labovich

Wylde J. Parsley

Mary Beth Becker

Haley Bossé

Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins

Mikhaela Woodward

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Christopher Phelps

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accepting submissions till Oct. 15! Authors & editors of works that have gone out of print may submit full-length or short books, including creative nonfiction, fiction, & poetry. Submit: doublebackbooks.com #bookx #authorx #writerx #smallpressx #openforsubmissions
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 29/09/2026
"They call you the bringer of sorrows, yet the grief is all mine." translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
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Wolfmothers, by Rukman Ragas
The calls come from the caves underground and even you could follow it, slithering slowly as the heat scalds your scales. In there, your progenitor hangs, mouth forever forced open, venom falling i…
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Longreads @longreads.com · 29/09/2026
"What can live without a brain or a nervous system, eat better than you, navigate mazes, and win scientists not one, but two Ig Nobel Prizes? The answer is a single-celled organism called the slime mold, also affectionately known as the blob." longreads.com/2026/09/29/l...
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Lost and Found: A Reading List on Labyrinths, Mazes, and Wayfinding - Longreads
Lost in a maze or found in a labyrinth? Come, let’s keep walking.
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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Centretown mural #Ottawa #Canada
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bestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Check out one of our 2026 Poetry Selections, “They Say the Rice Won’t Grow Without Blood” by Sreeja Naskar (@southbroadwaypress.bsky.social), selected by Cyrus Cassells on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-poetry/they-say-the-rice-wont-grow-without-blood/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetry
THEY SAY THE RICE WON’T GROW WITHOUT BLOOD
Sreeja Naskar (South Broadway Press)

“this is history, they say.
(they mean:) 
the textbooks that forget us — 
the flags stitched with the tongues we lost — 
the songs we were too tired to sing.”

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"June carries drifts gliding his gentle hand guiding stamen to release, against aching stamen..." —earth justice zadok alocasia.org/2025/08/15/e...
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earth justice zadok :: POLLEN SONG – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"June carries drifts gliding his gentle hand guiding stamen to release, against aching stamen..." —earth justice zadok alocasia.org/2025/08/15/e...
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earth justice zadok :: POLLEN SONG – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Eating a pear, I thought of my girlfriend. How she coiled a copper wire on the table in front of us us while the instructional video froze at 4:23. The bonsai master’s hands were still suspended mid-gesture" —Sreeja Naskar alocasia.org/2026/08/11/s...
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Sreeja Naskar :: “REVERSE PROPAGATION” and “BONSAI TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNERS” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Eating a pear, I thought of my girlfriend. How she coiled a copper wire on the table in front of us us while the instructional video froze at 4:23. The bonsai master’s hands were still suspended mid-gesture" —Sreeja Naskar alocasia.org/2026/08/11/s...
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Sreeja Naskar :: “REVERSE PROPAGATION” and “BONSAI TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNERS” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...
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Grant Chemidlin :: “Cruising,” “Portrait of a Plant on Fire,” and “Sally (When There’s Nothing Left to Sell)” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...
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Grant Chemidlin :: “Cruising,” “Portrait of a Plant on Fire,” and “Sally (When There’s Nothing Left to Sell)” – ALOCASIA
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"In sp[RED], poetry and Tarot intersect, inviting the reader to venture forth with curiosity. How can I look at the Hanged Man the same way after reading Jessica Doe's poems?" –Theresa Reed sundress-publications.square.site/product/-sp-...
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such a gorgeous and heartbreaking piece
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.
The 2026 ALOCASIA

Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List

Jaq Hack

Fiona Jin

Tara Labovich

Wylde J. Parsley

Mary Beth Becker

Haley Bossé

Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins

Mikhaela Woodward

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Christopher Phelps

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...
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Toya L. Walker :: “Fiddle Leaf Confessions” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...
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Toya L. Walker :: “Fiddle Leaf Confessions” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Fucking isn’t like making lei / with lei can start over / take it all apart / use the same pieces / put her back together again" —Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “The pua and the plait” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...
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Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “When harvested” and “The pua and the plait” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Fucking isn’t like making lei / with lei can start over / take it all apart / use the same pieces / put her back together again" —Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “The pua and the plait” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...
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Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “When harvested” and “The pua and the plait” – ALOCASIA
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our summer residency period. Free submissions all of September. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/…
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...
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B.B.P. Hosmillo :: “DARVO” – ALOCASIA
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Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is beautifully written and devastating and so fucking important. Please, please find some time in your day to read it.
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...
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Kit but Ox if yer derby @kitikins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So remember how i was working on that art prpject that inspired my cute Queer, as in poems in ALOCASIA? Well i didn't finish it and then lost three of my panels 😭 Anyway, I'm finishing it with the 6 panels i still have. Why not? Here's 3!
Three panels hanging from am orange ribbon , dangling from a lamp. Behind them, a weird bookshelf. The panels say,from top down: queer as in a sprouting seed/queer as in mountains, queer as in an old growth forest
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry in ALOCASIA for this list!
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating by picking your next reads from our 2026 reading list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed annually from September 15 to October 15, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn…
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry in ALOCASIA for this list!
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Maybe you were meant to be a corpse flower, lying dormant for ten years and smelling awful when you finally wake, but still, crowds of people come from miles away to marvel at you." —Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom :: “For the Chronically Ill” alocasia.org/2025/12/15/e...
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Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom :: “For the Chronically Ill” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Maybe you were meant to be a corpse flower, lying dormant for ten years and smelling awful when you finally wake, but still, crowds of people come from miles away to marvel at you." —Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom :: “For the Chronically Ill” alocasia.org/2025/12/15/e...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"At night I count the ways my stems have forgotten to reach out. How my flowers fold into themselves like little secrets. I pretend this wilt is from the weather. More salt for the soil." —Winter Doe alocasia.org/2026/08/11/w...
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Winter Doe :: “Allelopathy” – ALOCASIA
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"At night I count the ways my stems have forgotten to reach out. How my flowers fold into themselves like little secrets. I pretend this wilt is from the weather. More salt for the soil." —Winter Doe alocasia.org/2026/08/11/w...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we reopen for new work on october 1 🌿🌿🌿
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