Ghosts Ghosts of my father, my mother, my sister, and brother no longer bother. They still talk to me. My lover ghosts still haunt me —in good ways. I love the help they give me —especially in bed while sleeping. II. But give me the ghosts of my pets, please. Bring back Poogie—who ran away —after eight years. Bring back Piglet —who did not die in my company because I left my ex. And bring back Georgia —oh, for the love of the goddess, please. She was someone I loved so deeply and purely. She’s the ghost I miss the most. I want to hear her stirring in quiet morning hours. I want to hear the couch go “poof” to her psychic landing. I want to smell summer grass at the top of my nose, and I want to feel mossy mud between my toes —for those are the things that remind me of her. Pet ghosts are good things I am not afraid of —even the three ghosts of goldfish I flushed down the toilet —I’m so deeply sorry, forgive me. III. Ghosts are the energy patterns which stand for my love, and our sweet interactions. Ghosts of my friends, my ancestors, and those who have loved me, sit beside me, walk with me, and drive shotgun in my car, please. I miss your company, my Sweeties. — May 8, 2025, at 7:28 a.m.
Welcome to Season 2 of the MorningPoems Podcast
• Audio Description: the opening for my latest season will sound like ⬆️ above.
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I’m feeling vulnerable…
♥️ If you like my poetry, fucking like it. I love it. I also love your stuff if you didn’t notice! I’ve been writing poems—usually upon waking—since 2011. The bulk of my poetry has been written in a 5 year period.
☕️ I’m a coffee lover. My Podcast editor is Descript, and I’m raising money to pay for it so I can continue to put out free, beautiful content.
• Help me fuel my passion: https://ko-fi.com/tessmccarthy
✨ Give to Give: if you want me to illustrate you something, I draw handwritten .svg/.png/.pdf icons
⚒️ I consult as content developer by day. I have 8 years of experience working in information architecture. I’m a maverick in my field—hated (in a good way), loved & respected for wielding vast digital & physical collections. I design & model web taxonomies, and I classify semantic metadata* at vveloxltd.com, and yikes. My webpage doesn’t look pretty enough for you, so don’t really go there.
🔮 I’m a certified astrologer, tarot practitioner & Jungian depth coach. This a thing I love to do for others. It’s also going to be my retirement job some day. I do community tarot & astrology every Thursday afternoon at The Sunshine Prophecy on Piedmont Avenue—a cool, funky vintage shop.
My practice is called redthreadintuitive.com—coming soon.
🐈🐈⬛ I do all these things, and more! I illustrate & write this comic where two cats are talking in a therapy sessions. It’s called THEM CATS: A Comic About My Love of Therapy, found here, on Substack at:
• https://visualliquid.substack.com/s/them-cats
THEM CATS will be simultaneously published on my mega-zine, visual-liquid.com
Also/and:
🗞️ I’m collaborating on the Global Zine Project—it gives me joy & ease.
🎬 I’m helping a friend produce a documentary on autistic people in the workplace.
There you have it. I’ll try not to check posts because I’ve got stuff to do. I will never slink in shame for sharing even though I feel like this—> 🧫.
But there’s no shrinking to shine. We all shine.
I am here to be my best self and show up each day. I’m also here to support you & your work in any way I can. I may think about those typos. And, I will keep going.
I won’t ponder my overshare without thinking of vomiting, I’ll drink some tea in the bathtub, and then? I’m taking my friend to her doctor’s appointment.
Because that’s what I do.
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*Chunking your metadata is good because it helps you improve your SEO—only because I’ve learned this working for Fortune 500 Companies 🤓.
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