The Firefly Dispatch
Carson ElliotPoetic Musings from the Queer Upper South
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Five Sorrows, Five Joys
The sky was finally getting dark a little after nine and the fire sizzled happily following a short battle with rain-damp twigs and kindling. Every exhale became visible in the growing dark and there was a collective shiver against the cold...
Maybe John Green was Wrong
The world rolls itself so wide when you chance to look at it.
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
- John Green
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I remember the first time my fingers traced th...
How to be an Artist When Creation Eludes You
Here I am, on the other side of a month without writing poetry, a month that took up the names of “intention” and “presence”, a month that challenged me to be okay with stillness and feeling out of place. A month that left me grappling on t...
Don't Hesitate
The last week of February was the hardest by far. Depression hit me with its heaviest blows in months. I got rejected from the MFA I applied to, my body is not cooperating with what I want it to do— what it once was able to do, and the good...
Hand on my Stupid Heart
How long does it take to nurse a broken heart back to wholeness? What do you do when there is no single cause for that brokenness, it is just the world as it is that cracks it open just a little more each day?
The third week of February fo...
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Carson Elliot (they/them) is a poet and educator living in Nashville, TN. Their work focuses on the intersections of transness, spirituality, the natural world, and questions of becoming.
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