Weather is a texture

🌱 Here's another hodge podge splatter of random-seeming garden self-designed flowers, flora

🌱 Good morning

Ancient Chinese poetry therapy

Crimes being committed.

Charles Earl Boles was an 1870s American stagecoach robber who left poems at his crime scenes, signing them “Black Bart”. One verse was: I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches.

"Dozens of rare Jewish religious books, some believed to have belonged to the legendary Library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, were recently discovered in the basement of a Jewish-owned building near the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw." www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...

Halie Theoharides

A century of coal mining left Appalachia's forests devastated. Compacted soil. Invasive ground cover. And here's the problem most people miss: standard reforestation methods are failing. Fast-growing trees can't survive these conditions. So what works? 🧵

yes i am crying! (by plumesofficiel)

An AI horror story: A friend's daughter left her phone on the roof of her car and drove off. Because of the rate of speed and the phone falling off the roof of the car, my friend got an automated text from her daughter's phone that her daughter had been in a car accident.

“Every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

autumnally-aspirational wardrobe aquisition: new-to-me purple cargo corduroy drawstring trousers. waiting for the rain that will free up the fall weather…

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : James Bradley: Necessary, by David Harrison Horton / @unionherald.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jame...

We had to alternate them between two neighbor dogs in my husband's home office and two on our fenced in "dog porch" and then our own five dogs upstairs. The four neighbor dogs were freaked out; my dogs were freaked out. Nine dogs is a lotta dogs 🤣

A neighbor left suddenly for a family emergency and thought that their dogs would be fine home alone with access to a doggie door. All four of her dogs escaped and had to stay at my house since the pound and shelter were full. Yesterday was an ADVENTURE 😬 #dogs

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

I shouldn't 😂 but can't help it. 😂

Here is a sign that asks @govpritzker.illinois.gov to come to Broadview, where Illinois State police are helping ICE execute their terrible duties. Protesters have been brutalized & attacked for no reason. Please stop talking a good game on social media & actually do something about this Governor

Have you preordered this yet? Don’t you want to be able to say you have a copy of the first printing.

Having been a mod several times elsewhere and v. grateful not to be one now, I remember being trained thus: Take your forum(s) very seriously, and do not take yourself seriously at all ever. Good advice rarely followed.

Patient, thirsty, curious Therapods.

Intriguing plan that goes well beyond symbolism. "Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs."

I remember when New Yorkers put up posters in a desperate attempt to locate loved ones after 9/11. Now they are desperately looking for loved ones disappeared by the government of this country.

The World https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19491

…are you for real right now

Accidentally washed my sweater in hot water and it shrunk so now I'm sitting wearing this wet sweater until it dries so that it can get unshrunk This must be what a cat feels like after falling into the sink

happy birthday to Maya Lin, award winning architect and designer of both the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall and the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 by President Obama. Image via @amightygirl.com

#SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social -- Her Eldritch Quest (which by the way is collected in my new book which is likely going to the printer *ahem* tomorrow.)

#Poetry -- Okay, this is fun: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Quite a thread here. ❤️‍🔥

No, I'm America too, that queer person is America too, that Black radical, that hispanic farmworker, that urban liberal Democrat, that DSA member, we're all also America and we get a say in and make up a part of this country too. It's not all honkies stomping on faces.

I just thought you might like to see this feather, speckled with dew.

adopting an expression overheard from 13yo's friends: "too baby," eg "I thought I could watch the scary movie but it turns out I'm too baby."

This made me smile. Gosh.

#PoetryMoment "A New Poet" by Linda Pastan from Heroes In Disguise W.W. Norton, 1991 I, too, love finding a new poet!

#Poetry "to capture some delight amidst death itself " poets.org/poem/message...

Y'all probably wondering what swg is. It is me typing before fully awake and not catching a typo in stg. Pfft.

swg I sure wish I had $ in my bank right now. Y'all, Matt needs out from under this. He's a worthy guy, poet, teacher, kind soul, please help if at all you can. ❤️

27 a man who dines on sunsets shunned the usual haunts for a home any season it’s truly dead in summer just like fall a dark gorge always babbles a towering pine wind sighs he sits there half a day and forgets a lifetime of sorrow #Hanshan #ColdMountain #Poem #poetry #china

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below). And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck. #BotN #BestOfTheNet

It's the food dish covering with shoes that makes this genius dreamwork

A Republican relative called to ask what I thought of Kirk. They’d never heard of him before his assassination. I said: You first: What’s your impression after all this media coverage? TLDR: The elderly Republican dug up his speeches, finds his views abhorrent, can’t understand the whitewashing

Also, this poem of David Shapiro’s

‪Autumn poem. To tell the truth, there’s part of one line that’s always bugged me just a bit—yet I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written in any genre. And a damn good #sonnet. RIP “Poppy Road Review.”‬ ‪#AutumnPoem #FallPoem #Autumn2025 #Fall2025 #October #NewEngland ‬

"Fightin' Whities" refers to a spoof name and T-shirt created by a Native American intramural basketball team at the U of Northern Colorado to protest the use of Native American mascots by H.S and colleges. The team sold the shirts and donated the profits to fund Native American scholarships.

Not too long ago a small independent publisher of ancient classics in translation (@Contubernales.bsky.social) solicited a manuscript from me : the outcome was GREEN RADIUS. Now they have published a 2nd book : PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS. I'm looking for people to review them in print.

Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece