“… manufactured a present tense …” #typewriter #poetry

“… of breathless wanting …” #typewriter #poetry #spacetravel

“Is it Friday yet?” #typewriter #poetry #yesitisfriday

“… the difference between the ocean tears …” #typewriter #poetry

Up early, but no time to complete a thought … will be back. #typewriter #nopoetryyet

Man … I’m *trying* to see reasons for hope, but gawdam is it hard to do. After a few days of downpours here, tiny signs of growth are trying their hardest to sprout out of the cruel concrete. #typewriter #poetry #naturekeepsmoving

“… all the dirty sins of the city …” #typewriter #poetry

“… sidewalks glisten …” #typewriter #poetry #urbanrainfall

Awake and out of bed long before the sunrise. The sky was dark, but not still black - the darkest of midnight blues. It was night-like, still very dark outside, but the sky was shifting, the darkness was lifting. #sunrise #colorexplosions

“… golden pools of sunlight …” #typewriter #poetry #sunbather

“… wakes slowly, in golden robes …” #typewriter #poetry #sunrise

“Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.” #LangstonHughes #BlackHistoryMonth

Langston Hughes. Black History Month. Horn Of Plenty “… in the face of so many ways of keeping him from getting a lawn.”

Happy Greeting Card Industry Day®️ to all who celebrate! #typewriter #poetry #valentinesday #cupidisajerk

I suppose it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow … #meh #typewriter #poetry

“… ghosts of the past …” #typewriter #poetry

Late afternoon tea to warm up after cold trip to the dog park with the spaz hound. #typewriter #poetry #accidentalhaiku

Bluesky is being fucking flaky, so have to post these separately …

63yrs ago, yesterday, Sylvia Plath passed like thread through the eye of a needle into a final deep sleep. Without knowing that date, I thought of her this morning - a weirdly poetic kismet. Her death has long rattled in my head. The tragic image of her body, head in the oven.

“… rise in dark tides …” #typewriter #poetry #urbanmaritimes

Rain today. Then, a return of the usual dry weather for a few days … and then nearly all of next week is expected to be filled with rain. #typewriter #poetry #raininSoCal #itneverrainsinsandiego

Hahaha! I beat you again, Sunrise! Take *THAT*, you lazy loser! #typewriter #poetry #sleepisamyth

“… still haunted …” Coffee … because coffee … #typewriter #poetry #firstkiss

“… no experience required …” #typewriter #poetry #growthindustries

It’s not a poem, it’s a scream. Waking up to another morning without learning he’s dead or incarcerated for his *countless* crimes. IT’S A SCREAM! #typewriter #poetry #HOWISTHISFUCKINGPOSSIBLE

The idiotic backlash to Bad Bunny and the fascist ICE thugs rampaging through cities across the country highlight just how far we’ve fallen from the imperfect promise this country was founded on. There have always been limits on who qualifies to be “free,” more so now than ever. #typewriter #poetry

It was a very warm dog beach day … in February … felt like a bonus summer day, way out of season. #typewriter #poetry #dogbeach

“… corrupted …” #typewriter #poetry #iwatchthecrows

The agonizing universe of possibility, contained within a blank piece of paper … Contemplating an “AMA” or hybrid AMTWA (Ask Me To Write Anything) … What would you want to know about a typing poet, or like to see written by said typing poet? #typewriter #poetry #AMA #AMTWA

I was on boats, deep in the Gulf of Mexico, when I was about 3 months old, and grew up with the scars of fish hooks embedded in flesh. #typewriter #poetry

“… I’m not supposed to …” #typewriter #poetry

Neither of us wanted to get out of bed … #typewriter #poetry #thisdamndog

My insomnia began about the time I was 10yrs old. It made early morning fishing trips easy, and once I got serious about cycling, early morning training rides before work/school were never an issue. 4hrs + coffee … recipe for fun! #typewriter #poetry #whatissleep

… evening thoughts in restlessness … #typewriter #poetry

“… celebrate your flesh …” #typewriter #poetry #haiku

“… warm arrogance …” #typewriter #poetry

Jeff Bezos: [clears throat] DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS Jeff Bezos: [turns off the lights]

“… lingered on my tongue …” #typewiter #poetry #iusedmemorytwicebutdidntreallymeanto

The carriage was very slow moving, especially gummy if using the tab key. I isolated the issue to likely being the escapement mechanism, which required the removal of the bottom body panel to lightly lube. The original grommets were hard as rocks, and one split in two during removal of the plate.

“… coloring the backside of eyelids …” #typewriter #poetry

The old streetlight, though shamefully and woefully bad at its job, will be missed. #typewriter #poetry #streetlightorxray

“… empty yet full …” #typewriter #poetry

For years, I’ve joked that I’m more coffee than human. “There’s too much blood in my coffee stream.” There are so many amazing colors in a sunrise, sometimes. I’ve watched them come up over the endless horizon, while in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. #typewriter #poetry #insomnia

“… no longer dented …” #typewriter #poetry

“… gravity grows …” #typewriter #poetry #resist

Poetry is everywhere. Poetry is everyone. Poetry is everything. #typewriter #poetry #fuckICE #artisrebellion

It’s been a long time since typing on the Lettera 33, which lives up to the Olivetti sloppiness at the keys. Relearning how to get the most from this machine, which I do enjoy typing on. And, let’s be honest, the Italians make sexy shit. #typewriter #poetry #resist #allthepowertoallthepeople

Tomorrow is a new month, already … WTF … so it means switching typewriters out for February. Up next is this amazing Lettera 33. Far from being a collector’s favorite, among the Olivetti congnoscenti, but still a great machine. I love the leatheresque black covering, which helps to soften sound.

Today, like many across the US - and the world - we rode in solidarity w/ MPLS in memory of #AlexPretti and all who have been brutalized and murdered by ICE. If we don’t stand together, we will all be crushed separately. “The people united can not be divided!” FUCK ICE!

Fuck ICE!