Entanglements - a poem by Karl Tierney
Because I cannot point to some little Gibralter
and say "That's the one!"
like Queen Victoria shopping,
I've let myself be the one who's picked.
So when the last one came along, a veritable fan,
those tin wrists and acne scars paled in comparison
to a flat ass and ears that don't match.
But both with broad shoulders, boy of boy
could we argue like men
and cut the mustard without the dreadful shame
everyone's incessantly discussing these days
on TV, in congregations, meetings of all sorts.
To make a not-so-long-story even shorter,
I got committed for life --
his,
and then with no money left --
mine,
declared emotional bankruptcy --
a preemptive strike at the next one.
- July 28, 1991
cover of HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?: The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney, Jim Cory, Editor. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019
Publisher’s Weekly called Karl Tierney’s posthumous collection, Have You Seen this Man: The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney “an overdue introduction to an important voice in American poetry.” Patrick Nathan: “At the height of the AIDS crisis, Karl Tierney wrote dark and radiant poems about queer life.
09.03.2026 18:30
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Process in its final week!. Been a blast incl. work from: @amantineb.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @kerryrawli.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social
09.03.2026 18:23
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POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER
walking through swirling snowstorm
face of my dead grandmother in the wind
sitting in rented split/level house
(upstairs the barking of a dog, outside
the sound of Halifax traffic)
On the television, Charlie Chaplin
tumbling down stairs
rising with a smile of human
dignity
shelves decorated w/holiday ribbons
certain things of life brought
from Pogrom village Russia
If she had stayed to witness October
her breath rushing off to Spain
her eyes bright like
the sparks of metal on wheels
colliding
Our life here, a constant
struggle to maintain, the
doors of our house, open
When she died, the relatives
divided her belongings, I pass
through an alley, hear the
sound of a boat in the harbour
at the dock her hair swirls
in a laborer's coat
(c) Robert Frede Kenter
Today for #internationalwomensday I'm posting a poem of mine published long ago in a journal from Winnipeg, Canada.
This is a poem about my mother's mother, -- my grandmother - who came to North America, to Boston, from Odessa - The poem intertwining family memory & social histories. Ty.
08.03.2026 14:55
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Bravo. Sounds amazing russell. 🎸
04.03.2026 18:33
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File #447-B: Investigation into Artifact “The Poem” – Joshua Walker
THE ARTIFACT — JOSHUA WALKER The ArtifactDownload My Dearest … An Audio Letter Author Statement This piece began as an essay, transitions into a prose narrative of found notes, culminat…
Today at PROCESS series welcome bigjosh84.bsky.social
Joshua Walker with a complex hybrid work involving text, sound and image.
Speak, reader, and the lines will answer.
The air between letters is older than the world.
Step lightly, for the ink remembers.
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04.03.2026 17:15
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PROCESS series Catherine Graham #canadianpoetry
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@mjseyesopened.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @thewingedmoon.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social
28.02.2026 19:33
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A new journey poem "Grace Periodic" from writer/musician @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and my co-editor at @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS SERIES & collaborator for the book "In the Blueprint of Her Iris" - an extraordinary talent.
"I've wandered remotely from the magnolia, and now we're over."
24.02.2026 15:13
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from THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS – Beatriz Hausner & Rik Lina
THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS MOVING IN The house had remained empty for what seemed like several eternities, despite its prominent location in the centre of Paris. It was as if the walls had signed a …
This week Ice Floe Process series begins w/ extraordinary feature from 2 leading contemporary surrealists in collaboration: Chilean/Canadian #poet Beatriz Hausner & influential Dutch surrealist #painter Rik Lina.
Enjoy these evocations of interior alternative worlds
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24.02.2026 14:59
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‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER
‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …
The 2nd piece this week was remarkable deconstruction of modernist/art viewing while partaking of modernist tropes & ruminative inquiry from experimental #Scottish poet & artist @mdbolsover.bsky.social
curated @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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21.02.2026 14:58
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‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER
‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …
BLUE BALLOON
*—very pleased to have a new #experimental prose- #Poetry - #Art fragment published with @icefloepress.bsky.social.
with thanks to editors/curators: @rfredekenter.bsky.social
& @vikkicwrites.bsky.social. ...
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#Writing #WritingCommunity
21.02.2026 15:40
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PROCESS series @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
21.02.2026 14:55
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Constance Keene - Rachmaninoff - Prelude in B minor, Op. 32-10
YouTube video by ChrisWatch
A favorite
#jukebox #playlist #bskyjukebox #music #ConstanceKeene #Rachmaninoff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzKM...
14.02.2026 21:31
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Poem EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE by Robert Frede Kenter
excerpt
I wear monarch eyelashes for you
I could melt for you like a candied doll
abandoned in snow
excerpt.
all eyes are on your august barrettes
Art by Yasin Aribuga
a young woman (almost mannequin like) surrounded by butterflies in and out of focus.
A poem of mine for #valentinesDay first published in VISUAL VERSE which is now archived at the Newcastle Centre online. Blessings and light #poem #ekphrastic #poetsofbsky
14.02.2026 19:33
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sutures of limerence -- what an amazing line @vikkicwrites.bsky.social . (copywrite it) x🎹📖
11.02.2026 16:34
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Ty so much for reading! 🎸 Hope everything is ok there, as much as can be. Blessings to your upcoming issue.
11.02.2026 16:32
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Good poem!
10.02.2026 20:09
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"What was our poison touch, of palm lines
centred on hands, opening chords
into the body, incisions rent inside
like wreathless layers of skin?"
Beautiful work, Robert. Always loved this poem 'Music #4'. Chasms and sutures of limerence projected through the lyrical spectrum ❤️
10.02.2026 23:46
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#PoetryAppreciation: First I want to acknowledge and thank @icefloepress.bsky.social, @rfredekenter.bsky.social and Moira Saucer, who published my first chapbook, Dawn's Fool. Robert did some exquisite line edits on several of the poems, with a deft touch that added liveliness. (The collection
11.02.2026 15:24
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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement feed-back loops …
My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. Calderón, curator
At the parade grounds of immolation,
we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to
stand up straight with
a wishbone lodged in the prism of
your throat,
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10.02.2026 20:08
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I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. Calderón. Love the collage banner.
Hand over hand, climbing over
indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling
typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear
the news and various
other kinds of puppeteer topographies /
10.02.2026 20:01
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PROCESS Series
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social @seagoatscreams.bsky.social @sedserio.com @bimxie.bsky.social @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @amaleenadamle.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social @ashpoet.bsky.social
10.02.2026 16:46
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The Ourimbah Meditations – Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
THE OURIMBAH MEDITATIONS 1 The dark is a stealthy weapon,a vault to hold the errant childwho will not be reformed.The gloaming, a scaffoldfor her unruly spirit—feral being, dashingbetween thorns an…
Honored to share the work of Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social A new 10 #poems & #paintings #hybrid work for @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS
She morphs to a powerful owl,
eyes glowering, spinning her head
in the salt bush. They fear her—
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10.02.2026 16:42
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The Ourimbah Meditations – Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
THE OURIMBAH MEDITATIONS 1 The dark is a stealthy weapon,a vault to hold the errant childwho will not be reformed.The gloaming, a scaffoldfor her unruly spirit—feral being, dashingbetween thorns an…
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)(S) series continues with Australian-based writer/artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
a suite of 10 haunting poems/paintings annotations night highway journey to overcome fear #self #poems #paintings
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10.02.2026 16:37
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Ty so much Vikki, that means a lot. Complex, indeed. 💔
07.02.2026 19:06
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ty so much for listening Vikki C.
... you are always an inspiration. 💐🎸
07.02.2026 02:03
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