Archive - medusa was misunderstood

the sun is a red wine float peering over the edge of the earth and a song with a yearning delicate guitar riff sidles up to me on the airtrain so i…

Feb 9 • Penina Kessler

high cardinality

May I ask what happened here?

Feb 5 • Penina Kessler

January 2026

standing in a three sided room looking at a painting by felix nussbaum at the neuegalerie

the nazi regime oozed slowly, a membrane along the fringes of society hunting for victims.

Jan 23 • Penina Kessler

my dad gave me silver tefillin covers.

Jan 22 • Penina Kessler

December 2025

when the contractors tore up my kitchen floor i found mounds of mouse shit from who knows when and i wanted to tell him about it, someone who would…

Dec 29, 2025 • Penina Kessler

i turned thirty two and now time is a pendulum it roils and escapes and i pulled the hanged man and he told me to have patience but will i ever be able…

Dec 10, 2025 • Penina Kessler

i sent you an olive branch but it got lost in the mail.

Dec 5, 2025 • Penina Kessler

November 2025

I’m stringing along a one sided feud with a man who said something degrading to me one time six years ago and is now dating one of my friends like…

Nov 16, 2025 • Penina Kessler

October 2025

i make a bracelet and sell it to a stranger and now they have have a tiny slice of my time, of my hands, of my love.

Oct 13, 2025 • Penina Kessler

santa cruz la laguna

There are two seasons here, wet and dry, and I eat dinner in a stone room beneath a tin roof and wonder how much water the sky can hold.

Oct 1, 2025 • Penina Kessler

September 2025

autumn is an act of mourning, of shedding, of precious daylight slipping through your grasp like air like time like love like tulle.

Sep 22, 2025 • Penina Kessler

i left a water glass on the counter.

Sep 15, 2025 • Penina Kessler

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