Michael Metivier

Well that’s two strikes against me. I did soak the shreds though.

“Did you dry the potatoes enough, Michael?”

I am trying my hand at rösti right now and I just know I am doing something that is deceptively simple very, very wrong.

Advection Blues by: Michael Metivier(narrated by Sebastian Caban) YouTube video by Minoshka Liquet

The best thing that has ever happened to me in poetry is this video from five years ago of a kid reciting one of my poems from memory.

This is called infantile egocentrism and we're supposed to age out of it by the time we're 5 or so.

The Words of the Week - Mar. 6 Dictionary lookups from Iran, Florida, and college basketball

The Words of the Week:

- ayatollah
- war
- blood moon
- borrow pit
- Spartan
- winklehawk

The “I thought the Onion was satire” dead horse is the deadest dead horse one could possible kick, and yet

Camera feeder photo of a white-breasted nuthatch looking up as an American goldfinch zooms by.

laughed for a solid minute 🪶

More deer on the trail cam last night. Deer every night.

LOL I went to school there and it’s so true

Few outside eastern MA know that “Waltham” is short for “Walter Ham.”

@welch.senate.gov Do not vote for this Mullin. He is only respect by grifters as deeply dangerous and unserious as he is.

Yes please

Ahhhh! I want to read!

Definition of WHOOPIE PIE a dessert consisting of a sweet creamy filling between two round usually chocolate-flavored cakes or cookies… See the full definition

I need to make some soon.

Make sure your drive time is on fleek with “Abraham, Martin, and John” by Dion

Aahhhhhh I can’t wait for woodcocks

Utah curls/curse

If she’d just added another first name to her first name this could’ve been avoided smh

I wondered if this was imminent after yesterday’s clips, not because she hasn’t been doing exactly what she’s been told in all of its horror and degradation, but because she was humiliated on the teevee, and that makes boss look bad.

Definition of GRAYWACKE a coarse usually dark gray sandstone or fine-grained conglomerate composed of firmly cemented fragments (as of quartz or feldspar)… See the full definition

My personal word of the day

We are at AWP today through Saturday. Stop by to hear about new initiatives at The Rumpus, our redesign, buy amazing books from my imprint and merch and also we have candy and swag! Booth 1240.

A copy of the book photographed on a wooden floor. The cover of Backyard Alchemy features an old salvaged tin with a rollback lid. For herring? Let’s say herring.

Friendos at AWP and friendos not at AWP, do not miss this book by @nematode.bsky.social ! Just got my blurber copy in the mail yesterday and it’s a beaut!

😍😍😍🦌🦌

Post an iconic horror movie image.

Paternal: machinist, sheriff of a small New Hampshire town (pop. 300 at the time), school bus driver. Maternal: military, unspecified top secret things overseas, later a Baptist lay minister.

📷 Romain Métivier

View of big sky over fields and a road with the silhouette of a mountain to the right and an orange tinted moon near the horizon.

I missed the blood moon yesterday morning but it’s still kinda bloody. Saw it from a good elevation about ten minutes from home.