Amy Millios

@amymillios.bsky.social

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Writer. Music lover. Reader. Traveler. Dreamer. AS, Fibro, hypermobility, chronic pain. https://open.substack.com/pub/amymillios?r=8iyef&utm_medium=ios

Two tabby cats nosing their way into Christmas stockings and playing with catnip filled mice and fish.
Photo shows a hand behind an evergreen clipping in a bottle of water.
Book cover with bold purple background and magenta lines and shapes. Author name and title against a square white background. Rilke Letters to A Young Poet.
Nine men and women, several sitting and the others standing—dressed in costumes and ethnic wear—on the cover of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family.
Image of a woman with her head resting in one hand that holds a cigarette. Book cover for Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.
Image of a book cover The Cure for Sleep by Tanya Shadrick. Top right corner has a painting of woman awake and child asleep.
When the northern lights were amazingly visible here in NH. A crop of trees in lower right. Low hanging clouds on bottom left that go into the trees. Sky in the middle dotted with stars, and pinkish greenish lights that look as if they are bursting up from the ground.
Matins by Louise Glück You want to know how I spend my time? I walk the front lawn, pretending to be weeding. You ought to know I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact I'm looking for courage, for some evidence my life will change, though it takes forever, checking each clump for the symbolic leaf, and soon the summer is ending, already the leaves turning, always the sick trees going first, the dying turning brilliant yellow, while a few dark birds perform their curfew of music. You want to see my hands? As empty now as at the first note. Or was the point always to continue without a sign?