Archive - ✧ Analog Lava Lamps ✧

Summer summer summer. It hummed on the tongue slower in the heat.

Aug 13 •

Shannon Ratliff

The Man on the Moon

Sympathy is easy, Armstrong. But you needed empathy, and that, the public decided, was too much to give.

Aug 6 •

Shannon Ratliff

July 2025

All That Air Between Us

When I moved to Colorado for love, Joe Walsh was always on the radio.

Jul 30 •

Shannon Ratliff

All the Jobs I Had Before One with Health Insurance

Pizza slinger at Roma Pizzeria in Portland, Maine (Open ‘til 3 a.m. I was 19, all my friends were 21+.)

Jul 23 •

Shannon Ratliff

The Voice in the Clearing

Some mornings I want to slip the voice out like a loose tooth and bury it in the backyard.

Jul 16 •

Shannon Ratliff

This is the full moon of my life. I’ve lit a torch to meet it.

Jul 9 •

Shannon Ratliff

A Hurtling-knowing

Love that lands doesn’t measure its hold.

Jul 2 •

Shannon Ratliff

June 2025

We’ve come to reward the shriek.

Jun 25 •

Shannon Ratliff

There are no cameras along the creek path, but one just before it.

Jun 18 •

Shannon Ratliff

Jesus sends Tom Petty and Ezra Koenig the same dream

When you wake, the pith will be beneath your fingernails.

Jun 11 •

Shannon Ratliff

A group of rays is a called a fever.

Have you ever seen a fever from above the ocean, your feet dangling below you and your waist clipped in underneath impossible sunlight bounding white…

Jun 4 •

Shannon Ratliff

May 2025

Stones for Eyes

First, a flood. Then, the bloom.

May 28 •

Shannon Ratliff

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