Vancouver bracing for the 2026 World Cup, w/ residents in the Downtown Eastside being displaced from their homes & the city deploying its biggest police force ever. @sharonnadeem.bsky.social asks *Who Is This World Cup For?* for @karimzidan.com Sports Politika www.sportspolitika.news/p/world-cup-...

Poem for June Prayer I wanted to know something beautiful. I opened my eyes. That sprung the first leak. Every boarded-up window washed out of its hole, and light—light being also shadow, which is time, the duration of a refusal— drowned me. I drowned. open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

Just finished reading @dghaskell.bsky.social new book "How Flowers Made Our World." It's the best kind of book, a work of beauty that transforms perception. I now understand flowers as life-shaping beings filled with evolutionary wisdom, which humans respond to out of our own evolutionary wisdom.

Today's poem features a photo taken Hari Viswanathan, my high school classmate from Los Alamos. allisoncobb.substack.com/p/what-it-kn...

Today's poem The United States, February 15, 2026 Cut tulip. Alive. Flared wide.

Today's poem, on winter ICE in Portland open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

sick allisoncobb.substack.com/p/stop

Today's poem for dark winter days allisoncobb.substack.com/p/back-to-li...

Poem for today Wish A thousand things times naught. I want that. An empty. The glint from a fork eclipsed in the wet of a mouth. The ash flake having once. I ask the trace of a sea gone extinct. Subtract. The path of a fin from that past. A breath next to last. Nothing. Less.

Today's poem allisoncobb.substack.com/p/grief

Today's poem: Dear I like how the picture just gets the deer legs! allisoncobb.substack.com/p/dear

Today's poem about an incident that happened early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

Today's poem is about water. open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

Here's an action you can quickly sign onto, and it matters. Los Alamos National Laboratory has started producing plutonium cores for nuclear weapons for the first time since the Cold War. Their proposal for expanding fails to meet basic legal requirements. actionnetwork.org/letters/publ...

The Trump administration is deleting resources and denying the reality that toxic air pollution makes some communities sicker than others.

Poem for today: Red handed open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

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I've been feeling sustained by Joy Harjo's words open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

Poems counter lies open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

It is a time for poems. For unsettling every word.