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postcard of dog with collage and aphorism, writing in German from original sender at bottom

stay tender somehow

a reminder from @dinalrelles.bsky.social and me

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a big Carl Sagan fan but I'm super dismayed out how many people these days seem to think that Nuclear Weapons are fine. And not, you know, a completely insane way for us all to live.

"Alexia" by @jessicapoli.bsky.social has sold out, but the PDF is now available to download: sixthfinch.com/store

Something about mirrors tonight—

Jean Cocteau: “We watch ourselves grow old in mirrors. They bring us closer to death.”

Collaged interior of an opened, unfolded box

Witch Hunt box collage

Libraries will in the end become cities, said Leibniz.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Such people do not really defend Christianity, but they do let Christianity defend them.

Most propagators or a faith defend their propositions, not because they are convinced of their truth, but because they once asserted they were true.

Aphorisms from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who died OTD in 1799.

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It's the Dream

Today, I dream of Norway and read Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge

'it must happen'

pretty much every time I feel the need to remind someone they are being impatient I think of this

5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:

Annie Ernaux
Iris Murdoch
George Saunders
George Eliot
Lydia Davis

--so we said to the somewhat: Be born--
& the shadow kept arriving in segments,
cold currents pushed minerals
up from the sea floor, up through
coral & labels of Diet Coke blame shame
bottles down there--
it is so much work to appear!
...
Brenda Hillman, Equinox Ritual With Ravens & Pines

"Ears up, girls, ears up!"
A great horse poem by Ada Limon www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149814...

in case you need a kick-ass horse poem

All words containing every letter of the word "moor" in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847). All exact occurrences highlighted in green.

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for #smallpoemsunday, an Anne Sexton poem and a visual poem of mine. I put them alongside each other because they both start, in some way, with Walden. Mine (a Walden erasure) was published in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social last year.

I hope you are well.

Sitzender Mädchenakt mit Blumenvase

„Nach Kraft ringen. Das klingt alles so dramatisch. Man tut eben, was man kann und legt sich dann schlafen. Und auf diese Weise geschieht es, daß man eines Tages etwas geleistet hat."
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, die vor 150 Jahren geboren wurde und jung mit nur 31 Jahren verstarb


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hi

🙏thanks!

Yeah! ❤️

Winter was a sort of criticism ignored by all men and all the winds of heaven

A winter poem for #smallpoemsunday, from Classic Crimes.

hell yeah

@kathryncowles.bsky.social / @fencebooks.bsky.social

The first leaves fell this morning (my own eyes)

Kate Greenstreet

😂 i believe

Thrilled to have 3 collages in the new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social, which you can peruse here:
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I loved this postcard when I found it bc of the message on the front: "I hope you are well. From Maggie Gaver."
It's also from Strawberry Mansion🍓 2cm.es/1imC-

Memoirs about or that touch on bipolar disorder or mania?