Cough Medicine & Stones Unturned


This is an 8-page zine– Folding instructions here


a glimpse of pale Saturn
lens not required
prickles of panic
an echo, deluded

while silence is golden
and duct tape is silver
this gilded tongue might
have fucked Midas over

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was this what you wanted?
is it still? 

I know it would’ve gotten better if I had
just

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burst blister bubbles
fool’s gold leaf unlocked
three C’s, twelve capsules 
all stolen, none stocked

a glimpse of pale Saturn
untethered from stone
stings salty remorse
from silk curtains drawn

–

could I rearrange every mountain?


Photos taken with homemade pinhole camera


Cough Medicine & Stones Unturned © 2025 by Joseph Deans is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0

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