crane in the marsh- one leg longer than silence #haiku #poetry #birds

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." -Wallace Stevens (Today is his day.)

The Witch, John Bellany, 1968. #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween #31daysofhaunting

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The Joy Issue. Live today. feralpoetry.net/issue-twenty...

Proud to be a part of @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social, the Joy Issue. Thanks to @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social, managing editor. feralpoetry.net/opa-by-steph...

"Barred Rock hens sing, same measures, over / and over as they pass over the earth" "Favorite Passages" by Daye Phillippo psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/29/f...

Ucity Review, Issue 29 www.ucityreview.com/29_Merrill_S... #InternationalRabbitDay

Rabbit and Coat of Arms, Hans Hoffmann, 1587. #InternationalRabbitDay

Book mail!

My #caturday group.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

"Tuesday" by Sparrow

She’s a girl, // not born but imagined. Imagination, I say-- / Another word for God." "Another Daughter Poem" by Lisa Dordal. psalteryandlyre.org/2025/09/22/a...

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." -John Coltrane (Today is his day.)

in the wash of stars owl’s cry enters me- I wake as smoke #haiku #poetry #birds

Crying infant on this plane absolutely refusing to be mollified, and you know what, I respect the commitment to the bit

More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.

cooling skies — the clouds gather their wool knitting scarves of rain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Someone's death does not in fact change their life.

"It is rude of me to say all of this, because we live in a culture where manners are often valued more than truth...There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

But it's late, for all of us, and in truth the only ship there is is the ship we are all on burning the world as we go. - Mary Oliver (Today is her day.)

Powerful message!

This all fucking day! Wake up white people!

Today’s Supreme Court ruling is just more proof that no matter what’s in the constitution, code, or regulations, the bottom line is this: the law is what powerful people say it is

Well, the eclipse is a complete bust in Fife because bloody Thor has covered the sky in thick cloud. Fenris is furious. However, at the moment of totality, two deer charged across the field in front of me. Thank you, Artemis. 🌙

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

"How strange a world... that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality... that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree." -from JAMES, Percival Everett #SundaySentence

Sonny. Today is his day. youtu.be/PxuRRTjHxlY?...

"Rendering women second-class or maybe 11th-class citizens again is at the heart of the current rightwing agenda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm just gonna say it. I think the shit we had to read in school had a pretty damn good batting record. Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, King Lear, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Huck Finn all have highly salient themes today.

"The cathedrals of the iris don’t last– / in this they are like us, thin-skinned and tender." "An Untended Field" by Lisa Rhoades psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/25/a...

Independent lit journals, now is the time to—oh, what was that? you have been shining? This whole time? Carry on 📚💙 @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social, @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social, @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Poetry Northwest, @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, @periodicities.bsky.social, & more!

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience." -Howard Zinn (Today is his day.)

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Old white hippy here. Owning it like that Leaves of Grass guy, Walt Whitman. (Hippies never die; they just cut their hair.) #iykyk

Hear me out. Protest Pajamas. For those who won’t let fascism keep them from getting a solid 8 hours.

"‘whatever human hands take up with love is holy.’ I want to believe that. And in part I do." "Seferis wrote" by @martin65.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/08/18/s...

yellowed front lawn waiting for leaves to fall #dailyhaikuprompt decay

National Black Cat Appreciation Day. My Coltrane is celebrating.

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks". - Tennessee Williams

“For most inhabitants of modern industrialized nations,” Alice said, “the principal contact with other species does take place at the dinner table.” Joy Williams, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD #SundaySentence

Oscar. Today is his day. youtube.com/watch?v=tCrr...

Listen to The Great Horned Owl hoo-hooing at the Sturgeon Moon. #thismoment