Death Roll by Trista Edwards
Death Roll is a swampy, surreal song that asks readers to listen with their whole bodies as these poems shimmer with sonic experimentation, wild invention, & deep emotional resonance that thrums just below the surface. This collection is guided by an unusual relic of grief: a doll crowned with the taxidermized head of a baby alligator. Through the voice of Gator Girl, the poems explore themes of motherhood, loss, desire, & the mythologies we build to survive them.
Death Roll is a Southern Gothic, fevered lyric where origin stories have teeth, memory refuses to be still, & the line between human & creature blurs until vanishing entirely. Slip into its waters. Follow its song.
“Reliquary of Grief” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3oz black tin
Plunge into a meditation on grief, motherhood, & the wild heart of the South with this deeply complex fragrance. It captures the earth's core, still hot with memory, marrying animalistic darkness with serene naturalism.
The blend begins in a boggy glade—a serene, naturalistic wash of damp forest floor where spongy, green moss dots the limbs of ancient trees. This gentle, earthy dimension gives way to bewitching heart notes of labdanum, a musky, animalistic resin, intertwined with luxurious leather. The seductive warmth of sweet tobacco leaves & amber anchors the base. This candle illuminates the space where the funeral becomes an altar & the leathery loss of a loved one is transformed into a shimmering, terrifying jewel. Let the flame carry you to the black water where you can commune with forgetting.
Scent notes: Moss. Damp Forest Floor. Leather. Amber. Labdanum. Sweet Tobacco Leaves.
Adorned with a wax gator.
The Long Now by James Meetze
In this visionary work, James Meetze deepens his investigation into time, language, & moral attention. Unfolding across forty interlinked sections, The Long Now tracks time at multiple scales—personal grief, political fracture, digital delirium, & the slow patience of stone—asking what it means to be present inside forces that exceed us. These poems are less attuned to prophecy than séance, less forecast than deep listening: an ear pressed to history’s pressure & intimacy’s cost.
Moving through clocks & ruins, screens & myth, daily labor & lyric fracture, Meetze treats language as both wound & instrument. Words falter, loop, shimmer, & bruise; yet they still cling to breath, memory, & the body. The sequence resists resolution in favor of orientation, testing love, work, masculinity, nation, ecology, & faith not for purity but for use. Haunted by futures it will never inhabit & pasts that refuse burial, The Long Now understands time as weather one learns by standing in it—& answers not with comfort, but with vigilance, abrasion, & a low, enduring chant.
“Vigil for Time” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Inspired by The Long Now, this candle is an exercise in attention, a quiet ritual for standing inside time rather than escaping it. Bright Bergamot opens like a struck match, quickly giving way to the resinous calm of Sage & Palo Santo, their smoke threading through memory & breath. Cypress grounds the flame with forested depth, while nutmeg hums beneath the surface, warm & faintly unsettling.
Adorned with Sage & Oak Bark, each burn becomes a small act of orientation, a ward against distraction, & a companion for reading, writing, & connecting.
Scent Notes: Sage. Cypress. Palo Santo. Bergamot. Nutmeg.
Adorned with Sage & Oak Bark.
Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds by Sadee Bee
This constellation of prose poems moves through galaxies both celestial & interior. Guided by the gods of the Greek pantheon & the wandering comets & planets that bear their names, the speaker drifts between myth & memory, body & starfield. Each poem bends language into something luminous & raw, passionate & tender.
In Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds, Sadee Bee asks what it means to be human & what it means to recoil from that inheritance. Moving through trauma, familial fracture, gender, & sexuality, the voice of these poems ache toward freedom in a world that rarely grants it to Queer, Black femmes. The cosmos becomes both refuge & reckoning, a place to reimagine the self beyond gravity’s pull.
Dreamlike & deliberate, intimate & expansive, this imagistic collection charts a journey through pain & into the expanse of possibility where myth is a map, & becoming is its own revolution.
“Celestial Body” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Poured as an offering to the universal body, this candle is a slow-burning invocation, simultaneously earthbound & celestial. Threads of saffron rise first, warm & luminous, softened by golden honey sacred to the gods. Violet blooms at the heart, like a night garden orbiting its own gravity. Cedarwood & palo santo anchor the flame in something ancient & ritualistic, while amber & smoke unfurl, resinous & shadowed in the background.
Adorned with blue glitter “stardust,” the surface shimmers as it melts, echoing the unnamed traveler who moves through galaxies & selves in tandem.
Scent Notes:Saffron. Honey. Violet. Cedarwood. Palo Santo. Amber. Smoke.
Adorned with Stardust
Peacock Lane by RJ Ingram
Peacock Lane is a choose-your-own-adventure told through a deck of poems masquerading as tarot cards, each poem a door, a dare, a misdirection. Blurring the lines between pop culture criticism, fan fiction, & neighborhood gossip, it traces the slippery performances of the Dandy & the Trickster as they wander a street that glows too brightly & remembers too much. This is a book that fell asleep with the TV on & woke up mid-transformation: a Gemini-Cancer cusp of sentimentality & spectacle, tenderness & sabotage.
In this epic sequel to The Autobiography of Nancy Drew, RJ Ingram beckons us like a flashing neon light that’s eerily inviting. Set against the real & mythologized Peacock Lane of Portland—famous for its excessive Christmas lights—these poems unravel a persona who wants to become a labyrinth, who overcommits, overdecorates, & over feels. Moving through abandoned gas stations, prom committees, & long-distance phone calls that linger too long, the collection stages an investigation into identity as performance & survival as rehearsal.
“Candied Dandies” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
A strange, nostalgic blend of meadow clover, lavender, earth moss, & worn leather—soft & feral—this candle evokes a late-night television glow, lit up streets, & the unraveling of a Trickster who lingers a little too long.
Green & floral notes open like a memory you’re not sure is yours, while damp moss & leather settle into something more intimate & lived-in, slightly worn, & impossible to fully place. It’s the scent of borrowed things returned altered, of bright performances hiding tender undercurrents, of a story that invites you in & refuses to end where you expect.
Scent Notes: Meadow Clover. Lavender. Earth Moss. Leather.
Adorned with a mini tarot spread.
Break Blow Burn by Fox Frazier
Break Blow Burn is a kindling of poems ignited by hagiography, mysticism, folklore, & personal revelation. From Abelard & Heloise to the legendary Pope Joan & the saints who lived beyond their imposed binaries, Frazier resurrects figures who transgressed the gendered expectations of their eras. These poems are steeped in mythic imagery, esoteric symbolism, & spiritual inquiry, exploring how concepts of gender, sanctity, embodiment, & desire have shifted across cultures for centuries.
Interwoven with intimate poems on human & Divine love, ecstatic experience, & communion with the Numinous, this collection draws from archetypes of magic, mythology, witchcraft, & Tarot to create a visionary exposition on identity, devotion, & the sacred possibilities found in the liminal.
“Sacramental Pyre” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Inspired by Break Blow Burn, this candle evokes the sacred & the transgressive alike. Notes of Charcoal, Saffron, Rose, Cedarwood, & Tonka Bean smolder beneath adornments of Frankincense tears & Patchouli root, conjuring forgotten saints, hidden histories, ecstatic revelation, & the liminal spaces where desire, sanctity, & selfhood intertwine. A fragrance for seekers, mystics, & those who walk beyond prescribed boundaries.
Scent Notes: Charcoal, Tonka Bean, Saffron, Cedarwood, Rose
Adorned with Patchouli Root & Frankincense Tears.
Malocchia by Melissa Eleftherion Carr
Autumn Equinox Release Date 09.22
Malocchia is a collection of narrative & erasure poems that wander the haunted terrain of bloodlines, memory, & becoming. Taking its name from the feminized form of the Italian malocchio, or "evil eye", this book invokes a matriarchal inheritance through which the speaker seeks to discern their own reflection, blessing & curse entwined. This book is an excavation to uncover the relics of ancestry, confront the unseen forces that bind generations together, & explore a self that can endure beyond them. Through erasure, invocation, & revelation, Malocchia is an unflinching meditation on what we carry, what we choose to leave behind, & the possibility of forging a future beyond the weight of lineage.
“Relic of Ancestry” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
An offering to the matriarchs who came before & the ones still becoming, this candle is inspired by the poetry of Malocchia & the ritual of breaking inherited cycles. Bright citrus, sugared plum, & black cherry open like the sweetness of memory before unfolding into saffron, soft violet, clove, & cinnamon—fragrant echoes of old rites & whispered blessings. A grounding base of cedarwood, vanilla, amber, & curling woodsmoke lingers like an ancestral hearth, carrying forth the remnants of lineage.
Adorned with an evil eye charm for protection & a small parchment scroll as a vessel for intention, this candle invites you to honor what has shaped you, release what no longer serves, & kindle the courage to claim your own path.
Scent Notes: Sugared Plum. Citrus. Black Cherry. Saffron. Soft Violet. Clove. Cinnamon. Cedarwood. Vanilla. Amber. Woodsmoke.
Adorned with Scroll & Evil Eye Charm.