i had no idea there are industries that value your intelligence & do not that you are weird af

yeah i’m a total karen bc if you don’t make my americano correctly i am def having a psychotic break

student: how do you know chat wrote my poem? me: 🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨

bc no one reads this…i’m supposed to interview lucinda williams & also job stuff 😢 omg killin me

I swear if I don’t work out a ton, I just waste away…going back to the gym 2 try 2 gain some kgs

friend from fsu asked me to be on a career panel for college students and they asked all the panelists if we did any extracurricular activities in college & i said “depends on what you mean by extracurricular“ & no one laughed

can you take me to the store and then the bank?

But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene

the only God I have ever understood

when you dream about someone & they contact you the next morn

Hurricane Season, California

can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary?

There are periods of life that get worse before they get much better. Sometimes change is forced on us. Be nimble and curious.

I am the student who shows up at 8am for office hours. Professor, I am sorry 🤣

If you can train yourself to trade short term misery for long term positive outcomes, you might be able to write a book

like bringing owls to Athens

I literally only come on here to make fun of this platform. My son texts me he got a 97 on his history test and according to Alfred Adler, I’m not supposed to say “great job.”

I should have been an air traffic controller given my hyperfocus

Why is Gweneth Paltrow so obsessed with exfoliating her skin?

X is like Florida & Bluesky is like Vermont. Fairly boring, but at least people read books.

i am going to have an art show …nervous

collage

I wrote this tribute to Joshua Clover for the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social Thank you for giving me the space. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

I wrote this tribute to Joshua Clover for the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social Thank you for giving me the space. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

“I told you other things too—that we would end up down south again in that city of tarot card readers, storms, and gin. In the summer, it’s terror for people who can’t take it. But we can. We were never really going to get away.” @sandmansimonds.bsky.social

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana …how possible?

If I could turn back time

Burning Oracle, forthcoming Wesleyan University Press…Spring 2026

To join, email me! Enrollment capped at 10 so that you can get something out of this. When I taught this previously, poets went on to publish their sonnets 😃🫨

To join, email me! Enrollment capped at 10 so that you can get something out of this. When I taught this previously, poets went on to publish their sonnets 😃🫨

it’s just making you wild & blue

no use in trying to deal with the dying

as I get ready for a run puzzling over the fact that I had a dream about Guns N’ Roses 😂

Caught a lightweight lightning seed

I can't wrap my head around the fact that any poets still use X/twitter what a shame

When you get to book 10 and you look back and you realize that you wrote books through all these events—miscarriages, having kids, getting a phd, divorce, being a single mom working many jobs—so much more too—you have to at least give yourself some credit.

Committee work

sometimes i’m like how do you have 8 songwriters and come up with such shitty lyrics? amazing

live in a boring place ; make interesting art

somewhat respectable running week in this hell climate 😭

can you throw me that big red book?

miss the days when you could just be a poet and not a product

the wolf came in, I got my cards

this bird 🐦 you cannot change 😮

Frida Kahlo, born on this day, #BOTD July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Mexico. #womensart

this is so good ..what a little freak

daydream believer

starting this run way too late & it’s going to fuck me 😃

my 12yo daughter is reading Frankenstein & listening to Fleetwood Mac chances she becomes an artist?