Some hear the songs of the land sung by trees. Some hear the song of the electric ley sung by wires. Myself I listen for the wind working its way among both wood and metal. When it pushes omen clouds across the sky, I catch wonder in its voice. Take in gossip from far away. – Cunning Jack Rosehip

Your life is not your own and / never was. D. A. Powell

Went to see the most timely old movie tonight at @voguetheatersf.bsky.social, "The Rules of the Game." A beautifully orchestrated comedy with the top talent of the day, filmed as the Nazis were dismantling Europe. A sad context for an elegant comedy. "Kiss me. On the mouth, like a lover."

Feather thread! 🪶🧵

Cesar Romero has quietly climbed to the top of the list of America's favorite Cesars.

BREAKING: Two police dogs at two separate airports have reportedly bitten ICE agents today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans."

Tonight poets will gather at Jack Kerouac Alley to celebrate the life and work of one of America's most influential booksellers: poet, painter, navy veteran, editor, translator and community leader.

Painter, poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco's godfather of social change on First Amendment issues, was born on this day in 1919. "and I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42869/...

“The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence..” finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Donald Quixote

Dick is in the nicest part.

My friend Henri sent me an amaryllis bulb. It has bloomed and now every hummingbird in the neighborhood drops by for a drink.

In case you missed it, we are suing ICE for their unlawful practice of conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

“An elegy, D. A. Powell writes in an essay titled ‘Structures of the Elegy,’ is a ‘paradise of remembering.’” —Preeti Vangani, for @electricliterature.com @preetivangani.bsky.social 📚💙 Read “7 Poetry Books That Expand What an Elegy Can Look Like” here: electricliterature.com/7-poetry-boo...

I have decided to become a bit of a rascal

Homemade iced tea on the veranda, which is what I call the landing because who wants to sit out on the landing when there's a much more beautiful word to soften the real. The mug is actual Walmartware but acquired through thrift sale. It holds a lot of tea.

Wild geese trumpeting over the house. #WildGeese

The Poetry Foundation is seeking a full-time social media associate to play a key role in collaborating on social media strategy to increase engagement, foster community, grow POETRY magazine audiences, and communicate the work of the Poetry Foundation. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/47yWWDC

Periodically it's good to remember he doesn't actually know how to drive. He just...pretends.

TSA employees “deserve to be paid, not replaced by untrained, armed agents who have shown how dangerous they can be.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview. https://mrf.lu/fZsN

‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade’ Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Flashback to when he "pretend drove" the firetruck.

Meet the volunteers shuttling northern red-legged frogs across a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay eggs.

Ohh good! I've been waiting for this to be a book and now it's a book. Check out Rogue Astronaut by @mitchelljacobs.bsky.social

Flowers are springing up across California, including in Death Valley National Park and Mount Tamalpais State Park.

I am going to have fireworks ready.

Someday we will have reason to be glad. Excessively glad. Exceedingly glad. Joy will echo through the streets. Laughter and merriment will be in great supply. I smile to think it. Glad! It's coming.

someday this mewling pile of crybaby shit will also die and when he does there will be scolds who try to shame participants in the global celebration and when that happens i want you to remember and repeat these four words: “oh DO fuck off”

Going to post this word for word with Trump's name swapped in there when it happens and no one will make me feel bad about it

Goodnight from Brighthaven’s Winter Palace, where the wrestling bout between Lightning Lane and Iron Cyclops has attracted the attention of wagering gods. Goodnight from Fiona Low, marking Spring Equinox with Faery rushlights and a blade made from shadows. Goodnight from Hookland.

To a public prosecutor who showed no fear or favor, RIP. “Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

Here’s my faculty argument for my “right to refuse AI”: I have academic freedom. I’m not fucking doing that. Thank you.

"Candy" by Big Maybelle might be world's sexiest recording youtu.be/k0d0JysX3pw?...

Wow The New Republic is takin it to the streets.

Did anyone else in 1983 watch Dynasty

Sometimes I dream I am waking from a dream and in that dream there are so many other dreams waiting

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea

😡

Doomsday recommendation: Liza's cover of Love Pains. You should hear it before we go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLA...

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat. (not Indiana Jones)

University of Liverpool acquires entire archive of poet Roger McGough

Veo animation of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956).

Remember when Leslie Graham and Morko Rubio and Theodore Cruz warned us that Trump was a danger to democracy and now all they do is sit around and suck wee daddy's widdle dick?

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Juneteenth in Chicago, it will showcase 26 commissioned works by 28 artists, making it unlike any previous presidential library.

I wish they'd pass a law requiring that Tabasco be on every table where eggs are being served.

Today, I exposed an unredacted email that clearly shows Trump has been lying about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. There's no reason this should have been redacted, which is exactly why I showed it. Pam Bondi and Donald Trump: The gig is up. Release all the files. Now.