Archive - Mildly Yours

unfinished poems, ideas, conversations

Apr 13 •

Cassie da Costa

March 2024

you like to ask questions, as do i, but i’ll come out and say it: there are not many great opportunities. instead, from my insides i wonder is it…

Mar 21 •

Cassie da Costa

February 2024

enter, woman, 30

bad poetry is about as good as it gets. I believe that. and I know you don’t want more of the referential stuff. I know you don’t need to know what I’m…

Feb 21 •

Cassie da Costa

December 2023

the space between where I live and I reside in my email looks like a stack of hotcakes everywhere I’ve ever lived just one piece wedged in read unread…

Dec 17, 2023 •

Cassie da Costa

August 2023

terms and conditions

I wait for the call that will confirm I've done everything right. the proximity between "my anxiety" and my anxiety begs questions. the questions that…

Aug 24, 2023 •

Cassie da Costa

July 2023

(at the County Theater)

Jul 8, 2023 •

Cassie da Costa

June 2023

: in a series of rooms

Jun 29, 2023 •

Cassie da Costa

(at the Greek architect's apartment)

Jun 27, 2023 •

Cassie da Costa

December 2021

I hope you haven't done it all, or at all

The extraordinary, truly envious thing about being a poet is that you have a realm of being in which no one can nor desires to make you do anything. It…

Dec 18, 2021 •

Cassie da Costa

August 2021

Black Bill Part 4

Notes in preparation for the novel: He claims that O’Hara “doesn’t introspect or recollect much,” which is a lie if we’ve read the same thing. Every…

Aug 31, 2021 •

Cassie da Costa

March 2021

Black Bill Part 3

There was no plot. Before he said it, he knew she would say this didn’t matter, not that this was the point. It was childish to reply this way to a…

Mar 6, 2021 •

Cassie da Costa

February 2021

Black Bill Part 2

It had been a good time to get pregnant. She was in the middle of everything at once, and it was going OK. It was best to be distracted while pregnant…

Feb 3, 2021 •

Cassie da Costa

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