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Root Mouthing

Visions and symbols for perceiving through the throat to feel the future.

Newsletter · By Rootmouth · Official site

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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Fourth-Person Consciousness (opens the original)

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    I am think trotting up a hill, a small bounce in my step as I gaze toward my thoughts. A family of black bears. A mama and a few cubs. The exact moment the mama sees me, I stop in my tracks and meet her eyes. I register her majesty for three slow seconds, then begin instinctually walking backward in a low hunch.My dog is off leash several yards behind me, so I click his leash on right as he catches their scent and begins to howl. Trekking back down the incline with a rush in our breath, I absurd

  2. Issue · Jul 16, 2026

    Quantum Drag (opens the original)

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    I’ve hit the ceiling of who I’ve been and am equally overwhelmed by the options of who I can be next. It is painful, messy, asking me to get fleshier and softer and something about that feels hard. MASSIVE GROWING PAINS. I literally feel like I have to stretch my body to make more room. The gnawing is subtle but corrosive. Like it is somewhere in the distance resembling everlasting reverb.Today I found my flesh suit wrapped too tightly around my bones and muscles. I got on my mat, swam, howled,

  3. Issue · Jul 10, 2026

    Pretty Far Out (opens the original)

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    The knife spliced the second onion as insecurity smacked me in the chest. My lover had said it plain, not unkind. I don’t know where you’re coming from. The married person in me was like, the fuck? Nose diving to the gut floor. But then I realized it wasn’t me. It was someone named Fear. Speeding straight past the heart.Days before in our same kitchen after three months apart, my partner mouthed a map of their own work across their body. Speaking from the embodied awareness that everything is cu

  4. Issue · Jul 5, 2026

    Eating the Girls Up (opens the original)

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    Gut CheckWhen you are a public figure who says a lot, it can be easy to convince yourself nobody fucks with you. Until you go outside. Until it is three hours before midnight and you are stumbling around the club in a ivory latex body thong getting pulled for chats, hugs and kisses all night long. Silence is not always negative. Sometimes quiet means you are in fact eating the girls up.A lane is a lane is a lane and the gap between them is where things sing. Different melodies, same tune? Curvin

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