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

2026-05-02 03:27:34 UTC

Moon whispers
Against our skin
What Sun told her
In confidence,
“All bright and
Lovely things
Began in
Darkness.”
#poetry

2026-04-28 17:26:47 UTC

May you
Experience
Joy in full
Measure
Without
Dreading
Its ending.
#poetry

2026-04-24 19:30:21 UTC

May we
Burn bright
Enough that
The stars
Wish upon us
When we
Fall.
#poetry

2026-04-23 22:56:26 UTC

In the ancient
Language of
Pulse,
My heart
Proclaims
An edict:
I am
I am
I am.
#poetry

2026-04-19 23:12:28 UTC

In a society
Obsessed
With the dirt
Of the world,
Looking up
At the stars
Is a revolutionary
Act.
#poetry

2026-04-19 17:46:25 UTC

Your wooden
Words are
Symmetrical,
Branches from
A sturdy trunk,
Towering,
Dense canopy.
Mine are
A forest
Fire.
#poetry

2026-04-07 18:15:53 UTC

Rooted to
This rare earth
By wild chance,
We fragile flowers
Reach toward
The sun.
#poetry

2026-04-04 20:37:11 UTC

I find myself
Alone with
The shimmering
Stars,
And silence
Sounds like
Music
At last.
#poetry

2026-03-30 17:48:16 UTC

Be gentle
In a world
That is
Everything
But.
#poetry

2026-03-25 16:05:30 UTC

I am a flower,
I am a sword.
You determine
What greets
You.
#poetry

2026-03-24 00:42:48 UTC

Like a rose
That doesn’t know
It has been cut,
Bloom anyway.
#poetry

2026-03-22 21:26:55 UTC

It is bravery
To feel deeply
In a world
Perpetually
Numb.
#poetry

2026-03-20 23:43:14 UTC

There is
A swarm
Of bees
In my chest
That I call
Anger,
And if I open
My mouth
They’ll come
Out in droves
And blacken
The sky.
#poetry

2026-03-18 23:46:59 UTC

First rose since winter
#Bloomscrolling
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2026-03-14 17:22:41 UTC

I could be
A sword
Held by an
Angel
With all the
Righteousness
Of my
Anger.
#poetry

2026-03-12 18:14:29 UTC

My cage is
Open, but
I’ve forgotten
How to fly.
#poetry

2026-03-11 17:56:50 UTC

The god of
Grief and the
God of rage
Are the
Same being.
#poetry

2026-03-10 18:43:21 UTC

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

2026-03-05 23:49:07 UTC

My heart, my
Hands, my eyes,
My mouth are
Buried shallowly
In these words.
To read them is
To kiss me.
#poetry

2026-03-04 19:26:59 UTC

A thousand
Trillion neutrinos
Pass through
Our bodies
Per second.
Are they the
Ghosts, or
Are we?
#poetry

2026-02-28 23:49:23 UTC

Let light
Pour through
The broken
Places.
Better a prism
Than a wound.
#poetry

2026-02-24 23:33:20 UTC

Legit hate that I cry when I’m mad. I’m not sad, bro. I’m trying not to strangle you.

2026-02-16 20:21:52 UTC

There are
The remnants of
Stellar explosions
In your bones.
The violence of
Ten billion suns
Cradled in your
Precious heart.
#poetry

2026-02-14 05:18:08 UTC

If you’re following me, you’re my Valentine. I will be taking no questions at this time.

2026-02-13 21:07:36 UTC

Stay.
There are
Still stars
We haven’t
Wished upon,
And dreams
Undreamt
Await.
#poetry

2026-02-10 19:23:45 UTC

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 UTC

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 UTC

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 UTC

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

2026-02-03 01:38:18 UTC

I am a woman of a certain rage.

2026-01-28 19:10:41 UTC

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 UTC

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

2026-01-23 21:59:48 UTC

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 UTC

Dissociated so hard I kinda started liking myself

2026-01-20 21:20:21 UTC

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

2026-01-20 00:28:04 UTC

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 UTC

Today it has been a year without David Lynch.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/907/757/805/308/903/original/d448f52ca819f69d.jpeg

2026-01-16 23:43:31 UTC

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

2026-01-14 18:27:32 UTC

Drinking coffee til it’s time to drink wine.

2026-01-08 18:12:33 UTC

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

2026-01-08 01:17:18 UTC

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

2026-01-03 00:15:15 UTC

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 UTC

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 UTC

I’m not here. This isn’t happening.

2025-12-27 02:56:26 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-12-16 01:41:50 UTC

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 UTC

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 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-11-27 20:59:42 UTC

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

2025-11-22 21:59:47 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-11-15 01:53:28 UTC

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

2025-11-13 20:43:35 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-11-06 02:43:18 UTC

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

2025-11-04 19:41:33 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-10-29 22:13:59 UTC

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 UTC

Logging on for the night shift
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/427/266/227/445/136/original/a05f570bef20b287.jpeg

2025-10-23 19:27:05 UTC

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

2025-10-21 03:32:49 UTC

Boost = forehead kiss, right?

2025-10-21 00:18:21 UTC

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

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

2025-10-18 19:07:50 UTC

- reply

thank you for this translation! 🖤🖤🖤

2025-10-18 19:03:09 UTC

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

2025-10-16 20:29:58 UTC

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 UTC

Poetry slams should be wrestling matches between poets.

2025-10-13 17:11:57 UTC

Fuck Christopher Columbus
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

2025-10-13 01:57:38 UTC

I woke up like this (seething with rage)

2025-10-10 18:27:44 UTC

My nervous system watching me fill the coffee pot again
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/351/280/602/578/926/original/38eaf8134b1b7258.mp4

2025-10-09 02:38:25 UTC

Exhausted from being perceived

2025-10-05 21:37:28 UTC

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

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

2025-09-27 22:29:13 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-09-24 03:31:55 UTC

Me: *socializes for 1 hour*
Me afterward:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/257/161/146/063/212/original/344e10071c77f2bb.jpeg

2025-09-23 23:44:33 UTC

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

2025-09-21 23:55:17 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-09-05 17:55:04 UTC

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

2025-09-04 02:25:37 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-08-25 16:15:09 UTC

- reply

post! Post! Post!

2025-08-25 06:30:53 UTC

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

2025-08-23 22:25:56 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-08-21 01:21:17 UTC

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

2025-08-18 18:06:26 UTC

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

2025-08-18 04:44:37 UTC

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2025-08-11 00:10:46 UTC

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

2025-08-10 05:21:56 UTC

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

2025-08-08 07:47:33 UTC

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

2025-08-08 04:07:27 UTC

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

2025-08-07 20:48:06 UTC

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

2025-08-06 01:57:36 UTC

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

2025-07-27 03:02:08 UTC

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

2025-07-17 01:22:36 UTC

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 UTC

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