Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

📍 Seattle, Washington

Blood Poem No. 1

A bone marrow biopsy is like Ice from the bottom of a Starbucks cup crunching between your teeth and then swallowed. The brain freeze in your leg not your head It's like A garden tool digging for weed roots and then it hits a rock Scraping the tops

2022.

The year of pushing back to move forward. Moving forward to push back. The brick in our Pioneer Square loft looks like any other brick. Red with mortar the color of vanilla whipped cream. Dry and textured. You could probably cut your fingertips on it without trying too hard. Collections

Albuquerque cherries.

An adobe house on the way to Taos, New Mexico. Photo by Callie Neylan, 2008. Albuquerque isn’t really anything to write home about. Urban sprawl in the high desert. Where the car is king and the sidewalks are bastard stepchildren. The barren starkness of the landscape always depresses me,

Pioneer Square Vignette No.7

Saturday, September 3, 2022. On the three down Jefferson then James from Metier Brewing. I could still taste the mole porter and the hops from his IPA. Her hair curly and purple, black underneath. Curl category: 3A. Her shoes sparkly silver. Her shirt, polypro from REI. Maybe it was Under

Pioneer Square Vignette No.6

I saw a dead crow on the ground. I stopped and Friedrich sniffed. It was a baby, limp with flat feathers, an eye gone. It was in the middle of the sidewalk on a decline. On Seneca, I think. As I walked west toward Elliott Bay. A group of people

On 2020.

The laws of mechanics apply to marriage The angle of repose is defined on dictionary.com as “the maximum slope, measured in degrees from the horizontal, at which loose solid material will remain in place without sliding.” Reflections on 2020 As boundaries expand, our worlds contract. The last theatre production

On 2019.

The laws of mechanics apply to marriage The angle of repose is defined on dictionary.com as “the maximum slope, measured in degrees from the horizontal, at which loose solid material will remain in place without sliding.” Generally speaking, the smaller the material particles, the more shallow the angle before

On restraint.

Now, atop the mountain ridges it falls, accumulating deep and white shifting toward the sun and the moon Restrained by its angle of repose. It builds, sparkling laughter pressure mounting beneath clouds and stars toward the heart and the bone Restrained it tumbles, aches, and grows. Why can’t the

In Loving Memory of Mies.

Mies at home on Queen Anne in Seattle. March 11, 2007. Photo Credit: Callie Neylan Mies, aka Orion + Eden’s Mies van der Rohe, 13, passed away peacefully on July 24, 2018, with his head on the lap of his human sibling, Michaela. He was put to sleep due to

A diamond on the ferry.

He picked me up for dinner at the two-story gray Craftsman on Sixth Ave West. The one with the expectant magnolia in the front yard. It was his late father’s birthday, he said. And don’t forget to bring comfortable shoes. It was cold but not rainy, going down