@samrasnake
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
Army of Shadows / Jean-Pierre Melville, dir. (1969) “Still thinking about the others?”
Army of Shadows / Jean-Pierre Melville, dir. (1969)
“Still thinking about the others?”
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
Influences:
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
Photo of wren, description from ebird: ‘A small, warbler-like wren of Andean cloud forest. Plumage is gray and white with a barred tail and vent, brownish crown, and faint streaking on the head. When seen from below in poor lighting conditions, the barred tail is usually the best feature to look for. Stays high in the canopy and is almost always encountered with mixed-species flocks. Vocalizations are very high-pitched and include gravelly trills and siren-like whistles.’
Wren of the Day:
Grey-mantled Wren
📷 Mario Córdoba H.
Moses in front of Pharoah, holding staff with finger in the air. Moses exclaims (caption), “Blood, frogs, lice, pestilence, boils, bail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn, and an American-style election campaign.”
Midterms a’comin’, with lots of races kicking off today.
“Blood, frogs, lice, pestilence, boils, bail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn, and an American-style election campaign."
#midterms #midterms2026 #elections
america is guilty af of crimes against humanity — as is ALL of our allies who sat back & saw this coming without applying diplomatic pressure in attempts to talk sense into us, whether we adhered or not.
the entire west is an axis of evil.
Listen to my 2021 interview with Davin Malasarn on The Artists' Statement podcast for a deep dive into the flash form (and check out the many other interviews with an awesome slate of guests). creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
And then there are those making art, ceaselessly, to counter the undiluted bellicosity in this world. ♥️
"...it doesn’t matter because there’s something settling in my heart right now, something new for me but as old as time,...."
My lord, I love this perfection by @kiklodge.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social 💙💙💙
"Maybe it’s a trick
of light or perspective,
or the pull of night
with all its stillness
and heavy want. ..."
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/bedell-3/
New Commission
thebroomsedgetribe.substack.com/p/symbolic-s...
CELESTIAL AZIMUTH
"In her dreams, those old fonts were back; uneaten, raw
and bloody. Uninvited: Sticky with his scent of smoke
and dung-mulch under his old army boots:
Ineradicable." Oh this is a great piece, Amantine. Strong work. 👏👏👏
It is with great honour I can name the @forwardprizes.bsky.social nominees from The Book Bag: Poetic Voices.
Congratulations 👏
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Now signing in Booth 1248!! 2-3 pm Thursday: @joustingsnail.bsky.social and @susanlleary.bsky.social!!
Resharing a poem of mine in @haverthorn V.3.2
#poetry #experimentalpoetry #dadaism #avantgarde
Tantrums In Air by Emily Skillings @thesongcave.bsky.social
#poetry
I Love Information by Courtney Bush @milkweededitions.bsky.social
#poetry
Gertrude Stein hanging out with the Cone sisters.
PRECISION Walking, remembering, In the grass, I see what I think is a small coprinus, but I look more closely and decide: broken soda cracker. Of course, this Southern California lawn probably wouldn't be growing mushrooms. I have already catalogued Icelandic poppies —flamingo, salmon, vermillion, party dresses —on the lawn, and purple flags on another, a whole bed of tiny white irises and nasturtiums spilling over the cement-banked edge of another yard. It is March, and camellias are crowding the bushes at every house, pink, white, deep rose frills, china-like, perfect. Behind me, the mockingbird is singing one of his best songs, piccolo oboe harp and squeeking door all combined. The drama is only a memory; I arrived yesterday at the Los Angeles airport and could not help some part of me wishing/expecting to see you, M.,
waiting for me to return. I suppose that is what it means to be haunted. In my real life I neither expect nor want you. Yet, some rehearsal of the past is always with me. Even this morning, walking before breakfast in Santa Barbara when I saw an ugly ranch house with the porch light still on, presumably from the night before, I thought, "He hasn't come home. She is asleep on the couch with her clothes on, exhausted from waiting most of the night." And when I walked past another house with the shades still drawn but rock music pouring out of the closed windows, so incongruously at 8 a.m. thought of a young couple who have just awakened to make love and don't want to do it without the right music. And I felt safe outside in the sunshine, just observing the flowers. There is no way I can imagine love, sex or romance without pain, the cutting, cutting sharp knife of denials; what I want now is an orderly world
where morning is each beautful object in place, the sun pouring in the window like champagne, the china-white egg cup with its neat boiled egg, a burst of tulips, or poppies or camellias on the table in crystal or cut glass, the hot teapot, scalded and then filled with a fine dark tea, and the day stretching plain, unadorned before me, Mozart as companion, a book, a book, about death or life but not about love. We must go beyond beauty to find it. Invisible, I want to wait for it wearing the cap of darkness.
A copy of Cap of Darkness by Diane Wakoski
happy #twopageplustuesday! feel free to share any poems you love that run a bit long — I’d be delighted to read them :)
here’s one by Diane Wakoski~
Miles my dream feeds on me like a school of small fish feeds on a sinking stone
Joe Wenderoth
New Issue!
Words: @dallonwrites.bsky.social , @alexmiller77.bsky.social , @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,CHRISTOPHER NEGRI, KIMBERLY BRYANT, @liamcarnahan.bsky.social , EMMA HEATH & EVAN MURPHY, DAVID MCARTHUR, PATRICIA CASPERS, ANNE DUNCAN, SPENCER ECKART
pitheadchapel.com/2026/02/01/v...
Zoe Ryder White in a teal top and bright red beanie
Burgi holding a copy of White Door
Zoe Ryder White is signing THE VISIBLE FIELD, and Burgi Zenhaeusern is signing WHITE DOOR at table 756 📚💙 Until 4pm!
If you missed my reading with @soflopojo.bsky.social with @clayrebenz.bsky.social, here is a URL, and go to their main page to find Clayre's reading, interviews, and issue readings! youtu.be/VfbFZji33zU
A Short Film about Love / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1988) Magda: So what do you want? Tomek: Nothing. Magda: Nothing? Tomek: Yes.
A Short Film about Love / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1988)
Magda: So what do you want?
Tomek: Nothing.
Magda: Nothing?
Tomek: Yes.
Influences: The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright A subtle yet powerful book. “Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.”
Influences: The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright A subtle yet powerful book. “Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.”
Influences:
The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright
A subtle yet powerful book.
“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.”
Fox with full moon and trees in background, painting.
Goodnight.
The Midnight Fox, Catherine Hyde.
A peaceful four minutes of space to exhale and call a truce with saber-rattling timelines.
Gentle, measured, reflective: Prélude in E minor by François Couperin.
#ClassicalMusic
youtu.be/j6Xd6-5rLM8?...
multiple generations have lived off the same propaganda so we havent a clue on how actual "freedom & liberty" are supposed to work.
mostly, american men dream themselves as knights but havent had a "valiant" war to fight since WW2. so our violence is backed up & we lash out at everyone.
Love, love, love this story!
I love this collection so much! Brilliant writing by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Yay! 🎉💙🎉
