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Writes things, waters plants. π¦π¦ Words in Centaur, Sundress Pubs, Midwest Weird, Variant Lit, Pithead Chapel, Marrow Mag, Stone Circle, Door Is A Jar, The Evergreen Review, Roi Faineant, Bayou Mag, ONE ART, Juked, etc. Asst Ed American Short Fiction.
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Aaah! I am on this list! Thank you so much @bendinggenres.bsky.social π€―ππ
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Itβs just so good!
Just wow.
I STOP WRITING THE POEM to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. Ill always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.
Doing the housework and thinking of this poem from Tess Gallagher.
Some of you have forgotten humor and shit talking to shit talkers and I need you to remember these things asap.
I have a million thoughts a day and none of them want to be poems.
Iβm howling.
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I always return to: Why in godβs name would you, a wonderfully intelligent, curious, beautiful human being with an infinite capacity for learning and a fathomless depth of interiority give up a single iota of your creativity to a chatbot that can neither think, nor feel, nor create? Have some pride
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What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
Iβve got a story out in Milk Candy today! A dream pub for me for sure π milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/01/15/a...
Nigel Thomson "On the Way Home from School" (1980)A surrealist painting titled "The Schoolgirl" by Jeffrey Smart. A young girl in a school uniform walking away from the viewer across a desolate, yellow field toward a dark-clothed man standing in the distance. The man is hunched, holding a long saw at waist-height, creating a sense of psychological tension and isolation against a stark, industrial horizon.
Nigel Thomson "On the Way Home from School" (1980)
The more you look at the details more disturbing this painting becomes.
βi want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...β
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Older photo of Dolly Parton holding a kitten. Dolly is wearing a flowy purple garment. The kitten is back with white mittens
Thereβs so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat β¨
All of this. And I find I particularly recognise the 'vanquish insecurity'.
Ursula K. LeGuin pinpointed the 'unmeasured desire' for unassailable safety as one of the chief drivers of evil in the world.
And Christ, yes, I'm seeing it so much. In my personal life and in politics too.
A Cottony Fate Long ago, someone told me: avoid or. It troubles the mind as a held-out piece of meat disturbs a dog. Now I too am sixty. There was no other life.
Jane Hirshfield π
Happy #smallpoemsunday!
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After Minor Surgery this is the dress rehearsal when the body like a constant lover flirts for the first time with faithlessness when the body like a passenger on a long journey hear the conductor call out the name of the first stop when the body in all its fear and cunning makes promises to me it knows it cannot keep
some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday
My New Year's Eve Toast by Highsmith
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Everything going well.
woman stood in a room full of figures
'One day, Annie Hooper went for a walk on the beach and noticed βdriftwood stacked and leaning in a peculiar wayβ. This image inspired her to spend the next forty years constructing approximately twenty-five hundred biblical figures made of driftwood and concrete'
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Fascism cannot create art. It is antithetical to the empathy and humanity required to create. It can only co-opt asthetics.
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