Violets are grue Roses, demonic Si enil txen siht Boustrophedonic.

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Dated, mated, negated.

What a poem. From Jeffrey McDaniel's book, Alibi School, published by @therealmanicdpress.bsky.social. #poem #books #writing

Richard Olney, in Simple French Food (Wiley, 1974) A minor prose masterpiece prefacing his potato-leek soup. (Which is easy, and profoundly soul-satisfying)

Marjoram. I love this stuff.

"You know / I always need to save something, to control it." 'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Sheer brilliance 🤍 #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections

Hannah Bonner

Here’s a moody shot of a fantastic-looking pen: the Pilot MYU, from the first year they were made, 1971.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w... @jamieloftus.bsky.social

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

'Language as the body's echo, body as the instrument of life.' This is stunning. #amreading #amwriting lithub.com/words-as-bor...

Painted plant stands, front and right, and their barn sale inspiration, back left. #woodworking

A hundred passes; your cold shoulder has shaved me to a sliver. But not to nothing. And oh, what is left is sharp. I won't cling anemic to your love's #penumbra anymore. A crescent moon, I gut the night, bleed stars upon the begging palms of darkness, & sideslip full-bodied into a new day. #vss365

Writing prompt

Here’s one for the #fountainpen threads- a ca. 1930’s Swan Jackdaw Toledo. Black and red-mottled ebonite wrapped with hand-engraved 24k gold bands.

e.e. cummings is pretty metal about his art

All This Plus A Bell & there were words & there were words & there were songs & there were phonemes & Her knock knees were touch stones & her hooves sugar that mountain & the wind sugars that mountain & somewhere there is an ocean & that ocean makes my ears wish they were hands

Letting AI do the heavy lifting this season. A USB-compatible turkey helps.

Odd little side table with a nod to Sam Maloof.

From Hannah Bonner’s collection of poems, “Another Woman” (Eastover, 2024).

Brenda Hillman.

Robert Olen Butler, from Severances.

The Meatles

See a torty, post a torty. This is Dola.

Irving Layton on berries.

see a tort, post a tort (she's sleepy...)

THE VOICE OF YOUR EYES IS DEEPER THAN ALL ROSES) NOBODY NOT EVEN THE RAIN HAS SUCH SMALL HANDS

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AH WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS FLOW

M.C. Richards

A tumble of little spoons, and my new favorite apple- Karmijn de Sonnaville, an intense fruit destined to dethrone the Honeycrisp.

Sonia Sanchez

Marilyn Hacker, 1986.

What I learned after 15 profitless years of custom cabinetry design: everybody loves spoons.

Freakin’ Lorca. SO GOOD.

Blueberry-tarragon butter