Anna Maria (2004) by Henning von Gierke

This is a really great piece. I’ve always thought the idea that she was nothing but a sex symbol absurd - if that were so, why would so many women love her and empathize with her so deeply? Her performances were about something else entirely, and if some men couldn’t see that, it wasn’t on her

Easter Saturday Ana C. My tr Listen here, Judas Before you move on to your dance. Death absorbs us fully. All is arid coziness. Set table, and the claws of desire. The craving of finding them one by one and pronounce the scandal. To speak without being heard. Fanatical indifference to the not yet

Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. Steven Peyster

Lars Gustafsson from The Stillness of the World Before Bach #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

What will be a Peony

On this day in 2010, Chris Haney died. Born in 1950 in Welland, Ontario, he was working for the Montreal Gazette when he co-created Trivial Pursuit with fellow journalist Scott Abbott. To date, the game has sold 100 million copies in 17 languages.

This image by Kiyoshi Yamashita below inspired my garden planting (particularly of the Firework Bed where peonies and dahlias stand in for starry bursts, and the allium and foxtails are rockets).🌱 (it’s a visual stretch but it’s concept works)

Good morning. It's #latinopoetryfriday And we start today's poetry buffet with some hot 🥵 Octavio Paz Across I enter you, the truthfulness of the dark. I want proofs of darkness, want to drink the black wine: take my eyes and crush them.

Can we normalize class war?

A very good morning to the Jean-Paul Belmondonians too

Oh, very well played, Ashbourne.

Caretaker burnout is real. My family treats me like the chef, maid, tech guru, accountant, problem solver, shopper… It’s exhausting. This is just a note to say: if you’re a caretaker, please take care of yourself too. You can’t pour from an empty cup. ♥️

Eu queria muito descobrir quem foi o idiota útil que popularizou a expressão Mulher Balzaquiana lá pra década de oitenta

This is where I post from

One day that black and shining angel who Haunted my nights in Arles and Ajmeer, Monster of beauty loud with cruel gems, I shall encounter in some lane at noon Where painted demons have struck dumb the walls. -Lewis Thompson, from "Black Angel"

D'une écriture d'algues solaires L'amour et l'amour. Tes mains font le jour dans l'herbe Tes yeux font l'amour en plein jour Les sourires par la taille Et tes lèvres par les ailes Tu prends la place des caresses Tu prends la place des réveils. ~Paul Éluard

New rule: coffee by the sea. And a very good morning to my 2.7 readers

Silvering I thought this might be the last time light silvered the window, the grasshopper clicking As if I were staring in a mirror, not realizing I could watch from the other side. Louise Ireland Image courtesy @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Good morning to the Kerouacians

Goodnight.

Agnes Varda - BOTD in 1928

Happy pyre-day to Joan of Arc who was executed in this day in 1431, one of countless heretics whose ashes were scattered to the wind that they may winnow into us inadvertently 🖤 youtu.be/FCTs58AQ-LY?...

Anna Akhmatova, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

On that time continuum threshold you can seamlessly move from coffee to a pint. Also filed under "when in Brazil"

A stunning Ana Cristina Cesar My translation My mouth is also dry from this arid air of the plateau we drank galons of water Brasília is canonized all lit up like the real world my hand lands in your chest navigation map of this balcony today I am the one who spares you of the truth

New rule: coffee and poetry by the sea

my review of my Jane Eyre reread so far: good but needs more birds

The Baldwin epigraph to Levy’s biography of Sonny Rollins will make your Friday.

“The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.” ― Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason

Poets and cats! Brazilian marginal poet Ana Cristina Cesar

Two poets and the sea. Good morning

Leonora Carrington #art Tarot

I write poetry because dawn needs its symphonies

I have been posting on Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar today. Here is a photo of her with some other members of the marginal poetry movement. Left to Right: poets Cacaso, Charles Peixoto, Armando Freitas Filho and Ana C. Rio, 1982

Poet and my literary wife Ana Cristina Cesar

Stunning!

Good morning. It's #latinopoetryfriday And we start today's poetry buffet with some hot 🥵 Octavio Paz Across I enter you, the truthfulness of the dark. I want proofs of darkness, want to drink the black wine: take my eyes and crush them.

Well @poemakontsa.bsky.social this just arrived :)

Alice Rohrwacher is set to direct an adaptation of Italo Calvino’s ‘THE BARON IN THE TREES’. The story follows a young noble who, after clashing with his father, chooses to live his entire life in the treetops. (via Variety? #TheBaronInTheTrees #AliceRohrwacher #ItaloCalvino

Two poets and the sea. Good morning

A stunning Ana Cristina Cesar My translation My mouth is also dry from this arid air of the plateau we drank galons of water Brasília is canonized all lit up like the real world my hand lands in your chest navigation map of this balcony today I am the one who spares you of the truth

I write poetry because of these alliterations of the heart, these triple bypass open-heart of longing

Good morning to the catch 22 poets

Everything dreamed because it was alive, and everything lived because it was permitted to dream. Robert Walser

It’s morning coffee in the garden season. If, like me, you are deeply disturbed by the state of the world, please contemplate this butterfly cruising a californian lilac. Will it help? I don’t know but it’s worth a shot.

Caralho, Neymar conseguiu se lesionar apenas com a convocação. Não esperou nem entrar em campo. O cara sonhou jogar a Copa e a panturrilha já meteu um grau 2 de lesão. O cara transcendeu e transformou uma lesão platônica em lesão real.

Told his book isn’t hopeful enough, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “People are confused about the job writers are supposed to do... I just felt like it was not my job. My job is to call things as I see them.” “It’s really bizarre that readers would have this expectation of hope.”

Very narc of me but I do think a big slice of the AI problem is that we're not hard enough on people for being lazy greedy babies