This stargate leads into what new cosmic place and time? #villagelife #Xmas #ornamentalillness #attributes #placholders #accesories #meanings #seriousdécor

Holiday fun is in full swing with Kinari and Silas!🐺🐾

Wall of booze. Brasserie bar, Grand Central Station, NYC. #lit #giddy #holydaze

‘I have a female for him’

#amyclampitt #poetry #memory #mirror #dance

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

The Constitution clearly states that war powers belong to Congress — not the White House. Tell your senators to vote YES on the War Powers Resolutions to pump the brakes on Trump’s march to war with Venezuela.

“Amor mundi — warum ist es so schwer, die Welt zu lieben?” or “Love of the world — why is it so difficult to love the world?” — Hannah #Arendt #world #love #thefascinationofwhat'sdifficult

Me, at 63, contemplating one last load of freight before terminal rust sets in. (Former freight yard, Hudson, NY, early October 2025) #crane #rust #obsolescence

This is disturbing news. Oliver Sacks may have fabricated or embellished some of his case histories? @newyorker.com @austinratner.bsky.social #feetofclay #disappointment

Pu Pernickel's Resta Rant. #villagelife

There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.

"Warm, deep shades... dominated the 2025 Color of the Year news cycle. [...] A departure from its 2025 selection, Mocha Mousse, Cloud Dancer is a balanced white that evokes feelings of serenity [... and] signifies the growing desire for a fresh start." Who knew? Is there an "unbalanced" white?

Detail of a table foot (in the shape of a crane's head), excavated from #Pompeii and on exhibit at the superb Museo Archeologico di Napoli. I love the visual/verbal pun of a table's foot re-imagined as a head. The intimacy of this find—and its wit—offer a remarkable insight into #Roman culture.

"It's not patience you see on my face..." From most recent issue of @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @janaprikryl.bsky.social #dramatic #personae #ekphrasis #ourlady #motherofchrist #nativity #theoryoflove #sagradafamilia #ironical

My copy arrived today. It contains a slew of uncollected poems so… what a treat… unfamiliar Heaney poems to read. Long after I thought there wouldn’t be any more “new” work. #SeamusHeaney #poetry #new

🔥Let's check in and see how much December temperatures have changed (trend) over the last 75 years. 🔥

What if Trump aka #ZombieDon & Witless Witkoff were trying to force the U.S. to suffer the same territorial losses they're trying to strong-arm Ukraine to stomach in order to end Putin's savage #invasion? @bdralyuk.bsky.social

"Rage Bait" - Oxford University Press phrase of 2025. (n.) Online content designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically to increase traffic to—or engagement with—a particular web page or social media account. corp.oup.com/news/the-oxf...

There's a bombshell @wsj.com article yesterday about the deeply corrupt Russia/Ukraine "peace" negotiations. American foreign policy is up for sale, along with #Ukraine, #NATO & European security. Trump's greed is insatiable & so are the remoras that eat his scraps. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

Just when it was safe to be a "late bloomer," the doctors discovered LATE aka "limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy." If you can repeat that phrase fast three times, you DON'T have the disease. #LATE #latebloomer #yetanotherthingtoworryabout www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...

Three masterful and moving #sonnets by poet Nicholas Pierce. From Revel, issue 4, Fall 2025. @unboundedition.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Night-Stag Tableau or "Where's Santa? Stop!" #deer #santa #stags #stopsigns #tableaux #surrealism

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I may have accidentally captured evidence of the spiritual existence of Mary, Mother of God. She seems to be de-materializing right in front of the camera. You can even see the electric cords that were tethering her to reality. Note the base, in particular. Ravello, at night. October 2025.

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Anticipating Spiegelman's bio of #AmyClampitt, I pulled out my copy of her @aaknopf.bsky.social's Complete Poems & opened it to this gem,"Tidewater Winter." I love how she manages her syntax here so that it teeters on the edge of the theoretically ungrammatical but never quite tips over into muddle.

This is one of the goofier custom license-plates I've ever seen. I always thought these were a bad idea because it's much easier to remember actual words or names-& identify a miscreant driver—than if you use half-random letters & numbers to label your car. Moo! Moo! #animalphotography

Survivors of Predator Jeffrey Epstein, Co-Predator Ghislaine Maxwell & Countless Rich Predator Dudes call for the release of the #EpsteinFiles now! And #ZombieDon doesn't need to wait for Congress. He can release the files right now! Today. This very minute. Call the White House tomorrow.

"The Stars" by Vasiliki Albedo – from Banshee's Issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024). A gorgeous poem. #Greece #Sahara #etymology #bucklingunder #heartburn @bdralyuk.bsky.social @placepoet.bsky.social

Good advice from Chicago’s mayor!

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I enjoy every single part of the job @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, but this is certainly a highlight. It is a joy to hear our prize winners read!

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

62 wolves have been killed in Montana since hunting season opened. Killing wolves is neither supported by science nor ethics, yet it becomes a reality when wolves lose federal ESA protections. As the numbers climb, how many more wolves will be lost without reason?

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. #dogs #peace #spotsoftime

Sharing Wilfred Owen's last and greatest poem, "Strange Meeting," for Veteran's Day 2025 (formerly known as Armistice Day after World War I.) The off-rhymes and quasi-Miltonic half-blank verse point towards a road not taken in English-language poetry. @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Trump went on a lying spree about inflation last week. Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them.

In September, federal agents swarmed a Hyundai manufacturing site, detaining more than 500 workers, including more than 300 from South Korea. Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.

Would you like to see a moral snapshot of Amerikkka, under heartless #ZombieDon, our demented Sociopath-in-Chief? Look below. No cartoons necessary.

For some reason, I have ALWAYS doted upon the metaphor— "the handkerchief's supreme farewell." Better in French, of course. #mallarmé #poesie #poetry #symbole #français #poetry #metaphor

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

So-called Boston Ivy, (actually native to #china and #japan) aka Parthenocissus tricuspidata, glows ruby red in the gardens of the famed Villa Cimbrone in #Ravello, Italy this past October. Color me merlot. #amalficoast #Italy #autumn

My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident. #sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social

75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

Vote OUT every corrupt, Trump-enabling, pedophile-protecting Republican!!! #Project2026

“We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do.”

"Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left." Hey, @governor.ca.gov are you listening?