I love this beautiful, smart, swooned, sometimes-still sometimes-gusty new book of poems from @mspencerpoet.bsky.social Molly Spencer. It feels like itâs made part out of wind and part out of something flying on wind. Go get this one.
Fog-thick morningâ I see only where I now walk. I carry my clarity with me. Niedecker -- www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52182/...
I asked a friend what their favorite Halloween costume was as a kid, and now Iâm asking my Bsky friends. Comment belowđ
I once dressed as a lamp. I wore all black and put this huge tasseled lampshade I found in my basement on my head. Stood very still.
Not coincidentally also some of the greatest closing paragraphs in a short story ever. Love that story.
seriously, acting like the idea is no big deal is justâŚincredibly ignorant. our current lack of support for people attempting to keep elderly relatives alive in the U.S. is just astounding. addressing that would be huge.
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If I were the director of a psychiatric institution where Michael Myers is being held I would simply not permit him to escape
Yes, I am now a morning person but â and this is crucial for your safety tbh â I still very hate talking to other people in the morning. I donât even start talking to myself until around 11am EST.
2/2 "What I am questioning is the value of the authorâs commentary. I canât add anything; what I can do is make the implicit explicit, which exactly reverses the poetâs ambition." -- Louise GlĂźck