Thanks for sharing, Sarah!
I gathered your words to make a rope--anything to keep me from drifting off to sea. In trying to become water, I have become undone. A Poem Buried Under the Floorboards by Amanda Roth in @okaydonkey.bsky.social#poetry
This particular discourse has come and gone, but now there's a poem about it ...
— according to something I read on the internet Last week poetry was $3.09 at the Circle K near my house and $3.11 at the Marathon across the street from the Circle K. Plus nine-tenths of a penny, obv...
Order Carla’s A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us here! 🌊🌊 riverriverbooks.org/store/A-Geog...
![TODAY. MY STUDENTS TELL ME
Today, my students tell me that I look like someone who never drives a car, that I look like I am someone who takes a train everywhere, and I love that they see me like this, the same way that I love that one day, a student asks me, do you buy your clothes on english teacher dot com?, when the truth is, I would if such a place existed. Another day, a student tells me that I seem like the kind of person who is good at tending plants, that I seem exactly like someone who would care for dying plants and maybe even heal them, only I am the one adding maybe, because they said it with such conviction and another student agreed with them like this was simple and true, and I laughed, told them they were wrong, that I wish I were more like my grandmother, who was in fact a tender of gardens and all green things and what I don't tell my students is that I am so bad at taking care of anything including myself [plz let Tom know if you need the full alt text! out of room]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2vcaay2y6qaxmedo6adtgegz/bafkreih5xe3v7rtkfpzymbsdxqay3b6iwohtrbepz2wigwfwaud2rgkrve@jpeg)
Hello Friends! I'm thrilled to announce that my second poetry chapbook, We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning, has just been released by Bottlecap Press. I think of it as a book about the ways our desires can both curse and bless us. You can order it here: bottlecap.press/products/stars
Hi, folks! We're excited to be back from the winter break with our first new piece of 2024, the poem "A House on Two Legs," by Kendra Marie Pintor! Be sure to check it out! You can read it here: okaydonkeymag.com/2024/01/05/a...
How long will I be cleaning that house out of my ears? Picking it’s floorboards from between my teeth with the prong of a hammer, plucking my father’s collection of crushed Miller Lite cans like g...
... so many amazing venues out there for flash - @fracturedlit.bsky.social@okaydonkey.bsky.social@flashfrog.bsky.social@xraylitmag.bsky.social, Trampset, Cheap Pop - places that are regularly featured on BSF, Wigleaf Top 50, Best Microfiction etc.
Thanks for the mention, Matt!
Hi, folks! We've been pretty quiet for a while, so we wanted to share one of our favorite New Year's themed pieces for you all, the wonderful "What is Possible in This, Our Year 2021" (or now 2024) by @kendraffe.bsky.socialokaydonkeymag.com/2021/01/01/w...
What is possible is loving. What is possible is not loving every person, but loving at least one thing about every person. What is possible is to remind yourself of this thing in traffic, in the groce...
Feeling so thankful to the lovely folks @okaydonkey.bsky.social#flashfictionokaydonkeymag.com/2023/01/20/l...