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bowl@bowl· 15d

Test prints

Test print of a book of poetry with linocut and text of The Manhattan Schist (see feed for full text)

bowl@bowl· Jun 20

Breakfast of champions

bowl@bowl· May 20

Okay I made a regular sized one

Two replicas of an 18th century leather dildo, one is roughly accurate to size and the other is huge

bowl@bowl· May 19

I had a scale diagram of this 18th century dildo but my printer wasn't working so I decided to work from the measurements, which were translated from Polish, and somehow created a gigantic plush penis

A replica of an 18th century leather dildo, which is twice as big as the scale diagram

bowl@bowl· May 12

This tea tastes like shampoo from a good hotel

bowl@bowl· Apr 28

Frida demands to sleep like this

bowl@bowl· Apr 25

I take commissions for paintings like these, very small oil paintings or other media by request.

bowl@bowl· Apr 25

I'm working on a poetry chapbook with linocuts that I'm going to sell when it's finished.

Prints of a black crowned night heron in green fern printed lokta

bowl@bowl· Apr 12

we could've had it all rolling in the sheep

bowl@bowl· Apr 11

Magnolia Washington Square Park

Close up of a pink magnolia blossom, from below, surrounded by distant tree branches and sky

bowl@bowl· Apr 3

Herons www.patreon.com/posts/152574... #poetry

Herons

On occasion the river would come up to our door -
Every cul de sac an island within an island
And we would wait for it to recede
While the herons took the street.
Years later I would find myself barefoot and drenched beneath the Coney Island pier,
The night's violet clouds a damask curtain under the influence of the night's choice of psychedelic.
Tourists in ponchos, panicking and fleeing as the wind rises.
What, you fuckers never seen a hurricane before?
Geez.
Guess I better head back, it's not like I can get any wetter.

bowl@bowl· Mar 25

Cardamom #poetry www.patreon.com/posts/153438...

Cardamom

When I first came to New York I shipped all my belongings to myself,
Glass bottles wrapped in socks and shirts.
A jar of cardamom came unscrewed,
And for months after
The scent lingered in my clothes and on my body.
I still had the jar fifteen years later.
I was about to throw it out and Riah said:
“No, I’ll take it.
I can do something with it.”
A few months later we moved in together
And to our new third floor walk-up
They brought the jar of cardamom.

bowl@bowl· Mar 18

Hard Refresh #poetry www.patreon.com/posts/152573...

Hard Refresh

My mother told me:
The landlord’s father needed a new pacemaker.
He was chasing a sheep one day
And ran into the electric fence
And the shock fixed his heart.
It's rare for this to work
And it's a harsh approach,
But:
Sometimes you have to unplug a man
And plug him back in.

bowl@bowl· Mar 9

The Manhattan Schist #Poetry on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/152335...

bowl@bowl· Mar 7

the snack that grows back roach wings

These Cockroaches Mate for Life. Their Secret? Mutual Sexual Cannibalism

Both males and females will munch on each other's wings after sex, a behavior that may encourage lifelong partnership

bowl@bowl· Mar 5

This toy I had as a kid is maybe the funniest thing in terms of gender role expectations

bowl@bowl· Mar 3

Reconciliation Check out my Patreon for more poetry, writing, and art 🏳️‍⚧️ www.patreon.com/posts/151236...

Our children will be born perpetually into the houses of our enemies.

Until reconciliation.

Until we are no longer enemies.

This cannot be ended by war:

Our roots are in your soil and you will have to salt your own earth to destroy us.

You are caught in this trap by the neck. There is nothing to gnaw off.

There are only a few words your child wants to hear from you, and they will make all the difference.

The first two are "I'm sorry.”

The third is their name.

bowl@bowl· Feb 16

3. Barefoot in the Snow www.patreon.com/posts/144297... On trans fertility, dogsitting, and ill-advised MacGyver shit

I checked the windows, thinking maybe I could

open them from the outside and climb back in,

having once gotten back into my own house

via a dog door, but to no avail. I began to scour the balcony for materials I could fashion into a rope to rappel down, and then realized that not only would I die horribly within seconds trying that shit, Jesus, I could never even climb a rope in school: I had a fucking phone in my hand. After fumbling a few times for the correct number I was able to call the lobby, explain my situation and... nobody came. I called again in fifteen or twenty or forty minutes and got the distinct impression they thought I was joking the first time. Maybe because I had conveyed the absurdity of the situation too well in my tone, but not the urgency. But also I did not speak Russian.

bowl@bowl· Feb 16

2. We Are Responsible For Our Rose www.patreon.com/posts/144843... On guerilla gardening while living in a hole, staring at the walls, and falling in love

One of the things I liked about that apartment and it had a lot of issues, like, it flooded regularly, and the oven vent was a dryer exhaust pipe stuffed with old rags that I had cleaned out and fitted a 4-inch exhaust fan inside was that it was about two blocks from a plant nursery that had been open for over sixty years. I would go there regularly to buy whatever plants could survive on a tool cart parked in the driveway, and then a bunch of pots lined up along the wall, and then eventually a plant stand I built from a kit I bought online. They closed down soon after, and that's when I started to get the feeling it was time for me to go, too.

My driveway garden (image of plants on stands in driveway)

bowl@bowl· Feb 16

1. Waters of Life and Brief Notes www.patreon.com/posts/146685... on seasons, alcohol, ritual, literature, surgery, and underpants

I also made a personal pilgrimage. I was given a copy of "Explorabook,” a children's hands-on experimental science book in which the supplies for the experiments were bound into the text, when I was six or seven. I became obsessed with the museum it was based on, the Exploratorium, and wanted to design exhibits there someday. I went at 22, surgical drains still in my chest, and saw a cloud chamber for the first time. A cloud chamber uses isopropyl and dry ice to make cosmic rays visible to the naked eye, their trails zipping and spiraling along the film of vapor within, the type of subatomic particle identifiable by the shape of the track. Whenever I watch my own white blood cells dance on the surface of my eyes I think of the cloud chamber. I wondered if I could make one using ethanol instead of isopropyl, and then siphon it off to do shots of the universe.

bowl@bowl· Feb 14

Cage Match Valentine's Day: blood, fire, steel, paint, and trans representation for subscribers $3+ www.patreon.com/posts/144606...

Whale Vase

Everyone else was making coffee tables, pretty much. My teachers were thrilled to be able to help with something that wasn't a coffee table. We stored our projects in a vertical rack overnight. One morning I went to get mine down, and a piece of sheet metal lodged above it came down first: the corner hit the back of my left hand and bounced back up. And at first I thought: Huh, glad I'm okay.

Then after a beat, blood started to well from the wound like a bubble fountain, and I rushed to the bathroom inside the metal shop to grab a wad of paper towels to wrap around it. I still wasn't sure if this was a walk-it-off kind of injury so I waited for my professors to finish introducing the day's class before saying something like: "Hey my hand is bleeding.

What should I do about this?"

bowl@bowl· Feb 2

A list of all the free stuff I've posted on Patreon- writing about art, crafts, gardening, and being trans in various predicaments www.patreon.com/collection/1...

bowl@bowl· Jan 25

Barefoot in the Snow (Eggs Part III) A free long read for a snowy day about art, snow, IVF, petsitting, and soup www.patreon.com/posts/144297...

Barefoot in the Snow (Eggs Part III)
Milo Wissig
patreon.com/mwissig
me standing on a wood panel gluing it together

I had ordered the dumbbells online because I didn't think I could handle carrying a hundred-pound package home from a conventional store. When they arrived, in the middle of a snowstorm, I went downstairs barefoot thinking the mail carrier would bring the package to my door. Instead, he had rung the bell and run back out to his truck and shouted for me to come and get the package because it was too heavy for him: so I went out into the icy street, afraid he'd drive away if I went up to get my shoes, and collected the two fifty-pound boxes one at a time.

bowl@bowl· Jan 19

One Gram of Flax subscribe to read more www.patreon.com/posts/142364...

Once the flax flowered -- the type of flax with fiber best for spinning has blue flowers, but it also comes in red and yellow -- I cut it then kept it coiled up for three years, intimidated by the intense processing that would follow. I finally decided to process it when Riah showed me an 18th century flax break and hackles kept upstairs at the Lefferts House and offered to let me use them. I retted the flax by soaking it in water for a few days then let it dry, and we ran it through the break and hackles. It was such a small amount of flax and such short fibers that these antiques didn't do much to it.

Image of me using the flax break

bowl@bowl· Jan 11

I have just been to my parents' house and have found the necessary images to create a transition timeline where the photos are 20 years apart

bowl@bowl· Jan 1

Soba on a baguette pan

bowl@bowl· Dec 31

Waters of Life and Brief Notes: on real whiskey, fake gin, ritual, and tighty whities Free post www.patreon.com/posts/146685...

Waters of Life and Brief Notes
Milo Wissig
patreon.com/mwissig

Bottle of Seedlip Garden 108 on a spinning wheel under purple lighting

bowl@bowl· Dec 23

@mistresssnowphd.bsky.social it's Capricorn season

bowl@bowl· Dec 20

my mom crocheted Frida some catnip sardines #cat

bowl@bowl· Dec 13

You Can't Take It With You But You Can Sure As Hell Try A story about dragging a fig tree through Brooklyn www.patreon.com/posts/144638... Not a member? First 5 to redeem get 1 month free of the $15 tier here: www.patreon.com/mwissig/rede... Other stories available free #gardening #writing #trans