Anyone in the mood for a love poem about stop signs, snakes, and the depths of interstellar space?
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Units of Measure" by Rachel Trousdale (@rvtrousdale.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/units-of-mea...
by Rachel Trousdale Everyone is wrong about eternity. It ebbs and flows. Think about the distance between the earth and the sun; then scale that to Jupiter; to Pluto; well—that is as the distance b...
Let's stop having schools. No one should go to the grocery store, or the mall, or to a church or mosque or synagogue. Ban nightclubs. Ban doors! Ban trigger fingers! Ban parents—who knows what they're up to? Ban children! Ban everything except the guns.
So if my desire for autonomy brings me misery, how come I'm not miserable? What am I doing wrong?
Stygimoloch!
Me: ...and so Noah gathered up a whole bunch of animals: aardvarks and bears and capybaras and dikdiks and.... uh... what's a good animal that starts with e... 6: Eatanters.
Writing my fall syllabi is a lot more fun when I realize I get to teach Poe on Hallowe'en, but the resultant research into what Goth makeup to wear that day has taken up valuable work time.
Your campaign slogan is your last name and the last text you sent: Trousdale: We'll send her home around 7:30 unless you want her back sooner.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that patriarchy is going on in this establishment
(whispers: because a cast with like 90 male muppets plus Miss Piggy and Janice wasn't a bit of a giveaway) (I adore the muppets, but at least during my childhood, gender diversity wasn't their schtick)
Ooooh my next book / first book of poetry is coming out in March! Playful, experimental-yet-accessible love poems to spouse, children, crows, coral reefs, and toxic wildflowers. Robert Pinsky liked it! Now available for pre-orders!
Amazon.com: Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem (Wesleyan Poetry Series): 9780819501851: Trousdale, Rachel: Books