#TodaysPoem #MECFS In lieu... Of radiance, of wind Of crisp autumn air — Petals of sun cast a wholesome glow In slanting shafts, in shadows Not there But here.

scifiku #TodaysPoem don’t be alarmed produce on Tridorn squirms when eaten   Richard E Schell www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-...

#TodaysPoem So gently I offer my hand and ask, Let me find my talk So I can teach you about me. ~Rita Joe poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i...

"How I wait, knowing, for now she comes to me, her small feet wet with dew, white as stars in these last hours." #TodaysPoem #poetry Stars by Patrick Lane from Too Spare, Too Fierce (1995 @HarbourPublishing.bsky.social)

"the scarecrow loving puppet put a pop gun to the head of the soundman’s lamb." #TodaysPoem #poetry liftoff by @BartonSmock.bsky.social (2024 Mercurius Magazine)

The host of Fresh Air on CBC Radio, Ismaila Alfa, and I had a conversation about poetry and I prescribed him some poems! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"Enough, I said, and threw my sight away. Like hope. Like all I’d ever wanted, lost. The unforgiving ground." #TodaysPoem #poetry sighted by Carolyn Smart (2025 The Litterisee Project) thelitteriseeproject.com/2025/09/27/s...

"All the books want to be touching each other simultaneously, sometimes for reasons that will not be clear until later." #SundaySentence by Patricia Lockwood www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

"The coldest spring water never rinses away the holy scent of turned earth slendered into a bean, that trace it holds of wild green smoke." #TodaysPoem #poetry Green Beans by Rod Jellema (2011) www.theramblingepicure.com/food-poetry-...

Calming and palate cleansing … yes, with books - the latest report from the east end Toronto #SilentBookClub group: bookgagabooks.ca/2025/09/27/c...

"They keened like witches and cut the stars in half." #TodaysPoem #poetry Seagulls at the University by @annaquon.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

"My fingers play with the silver hair at your temples, you stroke my face and I breathe slowly. Jigsaw pieces. We always did fit nicely." #TodaysPoem #poetry Swan by @salenagodden.bsky.social (2014 Burning Eye Books, Portishead) www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

Wise and wonderful writer @lesliegreentree.bsky.social wishes us all a fall season "with great books, fantastic art adventures, the glorious gold and rust and orange hues of autumn, and the rude and lusty sounds of nature." preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Oh, @paulvermeersch.bsky.social's NMLCT (@ecwpress.bsky.social) launched last night with much joy and jubilation ... ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

"Give me the purple spill of euphony, soggy and throbbing. Salt me. Sort me. Separate the water from the smoke." #TodaysPoem #poetry When my dad says my poetry is pornographic by @dorseycraft.bsky.social (2025 @adroitjournal.bsky.social) theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

#TodaysPoem Not to write like a hammer to a nail, or a nail in the word. But to write like the memory of the tree. The tree remembering the rain. To write the rain. To read the wood. thepedestalmagazine.com/sean-thomas-...

"That unseen small tearing of the roots on such a serene morning. I’m watching the grass shiver. I’m leaning over, straining to hear it again." #TodaysPoem #poetry Gophers by Ellen Bass (2010 @RattlePoetry.bsky.social)

"and when the sun rises and turns a soft red it is time to say goodbye and get ready for the next falling tree" #TodaysPoem #poetry My flow of inner life by Joseph Dandurand from I Would Like to Say Thank You (2025 @NightwoodEditions.bsky.social) nightwoodeditions.com/products/978...

#TodaysPoem is from Suzanne Doerge’s book. time is made by context, yes.

#TodaysPoem The doctor did not answer him But held a scope to the man’s eyes And kept cutting through the tissue Until the blade had reached The pearl in his brain. www.poetrynw.org/poetry/zeesh...

"That year, we survived for seven hundred days. Thousands of hours of cold for a single night." #TodaysPoem #poetry Winter by Jorge Galán, translated by @janethendrickson.bsky.social (2025 Academy of American Poets) poets.org/poem/winter-7

"Is there a more terrible form of illumination than that of silence, which shows us not one absent love but a thousand, and shows us each of them in the act of indulging in some new betrayal?" #SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

On Notre Dame Street a few lamps gave off their trembling light behind windows shivering under sudden gusts of wind. The Tin Flute ~Gabrielle Roy #SundaySentence (Notre Dame Street is special to me. Years ago, I painted this picture of the house my young family lived in)

My #sundaysentence this week is from Deborah Levy and her new book of essays: "It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes without socks are destined to become my friends and lovers."

"I'm just never sure where mist ends and fog begins, unless it all comes down to a matter of translucency versus opacity" #TodaysPoem #poetry {Quote / Unquote} by Jason Ryberg (2025 @TrampolinePoetry.bsky.social) www.trampolinepoetry.com

"get off the tools. put down your metric wrench and emerge from under that shit-caked belly pan. flush the grit from your eyes" #TodaysPoem #poetry sunset crew by @christinashah.bsky.social (2019 @fiddlehd.bsky.social) poets.ca/sunset-crew-...

#TodaysPoem It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work lorinotes.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/w...

"A plankless jetty creaks from sea to shore like the frame of a beast that died out of its element." #TodaysPoem #poetry Real Estate (Oighreachd) by Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay) (2014 Literaturwerkstatt Berlin) www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/oig...

"Happiness was just out there in the air and Lord knows what's coming next." Happiness by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (Brick Books), launching this evening at Toronto's Flying Books

"She's gotta practise with a raccoon's deft hands, headfirst in the garbage." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Elegy 4, Sybil Elegies by Tanis MacDonald from Mobile (2019 @BookhugPress.bsky.social) bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

#TodaysPoem don't worry, I'm convinced joy doesn't need to throw any more little stones poets.org/poem/little-...

#TodaysPoem #poetry Leg Work – A Visual Poem by @SachaArcher.bsky.social (@IceFloePress.bsky.social)

"And the wildflowers are canary yellow Turnip violet and bone china white Because they hate us that much" #TodaysPoem #poetry from Labour Day by @james-lindsay.bsky.social (2021 Dusie)

"to open eyes and fists at one day old is more than you signed up for." #TodaysPoem #poetry Little Bud, Unready by Lisa Barnett (2025 @newversereview.bsky.social) www.newversereview.com/2-3-lisa-bar...

“If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure...” Lawrence Ferlinghetti #SundaySentence

"Indeed, what one has meant to do during the day it turns out, sleep intervening, that one accomplishes only in one's dreams, that is to say after it has been diverted by drowsiness ..." #SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

"& often the magpies in turn chase the crows back to where they came from (corvid after corvid after raptor) in unending loops)" #TodaysPoem #poetry Aubade With Birds by Samuel Day Wharton (2025 @stonecirclereview.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...

“The world begins at a kitchen table.” #SundaySentence from “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo. poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/pe… @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoeme#poeme#poetryry

Let them not say: it was not spoken, not written (We spoke, we witnessed with voices and hands) #SundaySentence #JaneHirschfield #TodaysPoem poets.org/poem/let-the...

"Past seasons framed as rooms in unidentified houses. / Shape of the limerent object carved into a certain kind of wood, then burned on the new moon" #TodaysPoem #poetry Motifs by @michaelgoodfellow.bsky.social (2023 @modronmagazine.bsky.social) modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-mi...

"The Team Lead does, however, leave the rest of the meeting‐cookies on her desk. She’s unsure if this means her presentation went well." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Half by Katherine J Barrett (@kathj.bsky.social) (2025 @malahatreview.bsky.social)

"There are days to empty. There are days I must." #TodaysPoem #poetry Silence of Järvenpää by Bridget Huh (2025 League of @canadianpoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/silence-of-j...

"When she was younger, no one ever asked to take her picture. Now she can't go five minutes without some tourist sticking a camera in her face." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by @stevemcormond.bsky.social (2025 Baseline Press) www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t...

"As the best readers put it, “We noticed. We care.” lithub.com/everything-y... (via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy)

"meanwhile i long grieved the passing of this new year and i in its sorrowful residence" #TodaysPoem #poetry from Passage 4 November 2022 by @isabellawangbc.bsky.social in November, November (2025 @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) harbourpublishing.com/products/978...

"Dance like a demon Dancing on a bed of air Scrawl a poem on the wall Make a raft from the chairs To stop myself from drowning" #TodaysPoem #poetry Dance Like a Demon by Gina Birch from I Play My Bass Loud (2023) genius.com/Gina-birch-d...

"The room wraps around us tight, and I feel too aware of all our little personal sounds colliding." #SundaySentence from Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones (2022 @AvidReaderPress.bsky.social)

"the river runs perpendicularly to the narrative the idea of a boundary is an idea orthogonality isn’t necessarily a choice" #TodaysPoem #poetry Unidentified Boat by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social) (2025 NewPoetry.ca) newpoetry.ca/2025/08/29/u...

"A faint breeze, barely there, sighs in overladen jacaranda trees, a sudden snowsquall of petals." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by @stevemcormond.bsky.social (2025 Baseline Press) www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t...

"I weep myself to write a poem even though I know I have been forgotten" #TodaysPoem #poetry I would like to say thank you ... by Joseph Dandurand from I Would Like to Say Thank You (2025 @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) nightwoodeditions.com/products/978...