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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

i don't feel like being bored so i court disaster —nila northSun

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TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 9:54pm

Bob Heman

there is only one night
that the days approach
to drink from

Reposted by Tom Snarsky

JKj-tkelly.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 7:29pm

This has been on my mind all day

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 2:04am

Cecilie Løveid, tr. May-Brit Akerholt

We carry sketches
for a new sky
and a new earth

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 6:53pm

Grzegorz Wróblewski, tr. Piotr Gwiazda

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My participation in nature and politics? Eyelashes! Let's assume every day I lose (conservative estimate) between three and six eyelashes. Within one year, that would amount to 1095-2190 eyelashes. Since I surfaced — 38325-76650. Not a bad contribution.

Reposted by Tom Snarsky

GGjulianday.caSep 29, 2024 3:00pm

For #smallpoemsunday, a small one from my last chapbook (of the same name) from Model Press.

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 2:10pm

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by Ruth Lepson (“These Trees”) and one by me~

THESE TREES

after I’ve left
these trees
their insistent green humming
will shine
and all my emotions
will have been
just that
mine

***
2 Poem without the letter “e” (starting right now)

It’s changing how I build my small raft
and float on it through living. It’s living
in our world as a bird, as though you
hadn’t thought of that. It’s a book shut
loudly upon finishing its last word, or
music that stops without any warning.

I’d call it what it is, but for now I must
call it duration, a fun mind trick to blur
our days into unity. Of all birds I know
your down is most, uh, fitting, or do I
want to say warm. I don’t know which,
and actually I don’t know if I think
it’s important to pick. I’m just thinking
until my small raft finally starts to sink.

***

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 2:04am

Cecilie Løveid, tr. May-Brit Akerholt

Reposted by Tom Snarsky

NWnikkimwalls.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:52pm

yes that is a banger

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:47pm

Frank Stanford

Narcissus to Achilles

Yesterday, I passed over a bridge
and saw a boot underwater.
Such thoughts I had,
I cannot tell you.

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 6:53pm

Barbara Carle

THE GRAINS OF SAND

The grains of sand
are imperceptibly threatening the page
and your hand casts a shadow in the center
of dazzling,
you are writing below the level of breaking waves
and could cave into the sea if you stayed
here long enough.

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:47pm

Frank Stanford

TStomsnarsky.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:10am

Richard Shelton

WHAT WE LOVE

is always of course a dream
and determined by little things
years ago

it could have happened
in a porch swing or the back
seat of a car but it didn’t

I kept an appointment
among wild syringa beneath the pines
it was late evening almost dark
with the moon in its cradle

I remember the smell of leaves
coated with dust but who was it
who was it
can I admit I do not know

Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

i don't feel like being bored so i court disaster —nila northSun

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