#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post either a reel or a link in the comments, in which I will say I don’t want to disparage or discount anyone’s service but I don’t like being in a society in which only those who wear uniforms and carry guns can be heroic.

I wrote this poem in 2020, before I had ever heard of Charlie Kirk. #poem #resist #freespeech

be the pine survive this fire

#haiku #haikusaturday winter oak perched on every branch a singing star or winter oak midnight branches filled with starsong

I eight hours backlogged in reading #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets for @thebrokenspine.co.uk but I am already profoundly struck by how many poets have managed to present absence, silence, and emptiness in ways that make negation palpable. Bravo my friends!!!

#PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets @thebrokenspine.co.uk A Fib for the biggest fibber. I don’t have a video because Fibs aren’t generally about the 🎤.

I finally watched the DEVO documentary on Netflix. For a long time I felt like a skunk for following them as long as I did, but now I actually don’t feel so bad about it.

So psyched to be in Trash Panda, volume 9.

#PoemsAbout #Candlelight @thebrokenspine.co.uk A persona poem. I will post a video in the comments.

Why do I feel that Trump, the Republican Congress, and the Supreme Court hate my country more than the people who did this?

For anyone who’s finding #PoemsAbout hard to handle this week, let me light your candle: youtu.be/6TQIKw19Xjs?...

#PoemsAbout #Facades I was inspired by the excellent blackout poem @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social to share the only blackout poem I have ever written, which abused a rare positive rejection letter to create the facade of the wounded poet.

moon walks across the lake wind goes p—h #haiku #haikusaturday

moon walks across the lake wind goes p—h #haiku #haikusaturday

#PoemsAbout #Facades @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post a reel in the comments:

Still having trouble with the #PoemsAbout prompt #Facades? Does it help to know that this song is 47 years old? Fuck me!!! youtu.be/ylOCIP54PIQ?...

My wife: Your poems are so morbid. Me: 🤔, I don’t think so. My wife: What’s the last one about? Me: My 💀 friend’s 🪦… 😬 youtu.be/Dn4xdHBXth4?...

@emteepoetry.bsky.social told me earlier this week that she was going to allude to the song for #PoemsAbout, and did she ever. A golden shovel poem is not an easy form and to nail it with this long of a passage is fierce!!! 🥊🥊🥊 🔥🎤👇

#PoemsAbout #Riots @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #Riots @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post a reel in the comments. Allusions in stanza two: Oliver Mtukudzi, Kaiser Chiefs, Echo and the Bunnymen, Public Enemy, Patti Smith, Lucky Dube, Bob Marley.

#PoemsAbout #Chandeliers @thebrokenspine.co.uk Leans heavily on PWEI. I will put a reel in the comments.

Iconic apple.news/A-4dEbOSgTHy...

#PoemsAbout #Ceasefire @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will post a reel in the comments.

youtube.com/watch?v=IYCY... This could be my album of the year.

Have you missed a previous issue? Catch up here! #haiku #haikujournal

Lloyd Cole, Brand New Friend, or Billy Bragg, New England?

#PoemsAbout #BlackSky Not my words, but I’ll share this short, shamelessly romantic Yeats poem. Listening again to my music composed for this, I like most the quiet electric piano part that one has to pay attention to hear at all—impressionisticly, the dreams youtu.be/ckL5yuvnbx8?...

#PoemsAbout #BlackSky @thebrokenspine.co.uk Again, I wish I didn’t have to write it. Will put a reel in the comments.

I had the pleasure of hearing many of the poets in this book at the launch. The works are both evocative of the Gatsby era and provocative emotionally and intellectually.

This gorgeous copy of folk ku issue #5 came today from King River Press, along with individual cards for each of my poems in the issue! Something I will treasure!

#PoemsAbout #StarCrossed I didn’t want to share this last week and mess up anyone’s creative flow, but isn’t this one of the great star crossed songs? Apparently, he wrote it after his breakup with Holly from Holly and the Italians of Tell That Girl to Shut Up fame. youtu.be/4ogF2tRNZRk?...

John B wore this shirt in 2021. John C wore it in 2025…

#PoemsAbout #StarCrossed #Duplex @thebrokenspine.co.uk My writers’ group is writing Duplex poems this month. This is my first in that form. I will post a reel in the comments. I will also post a link if you want to get to know me better.

youtu.be/OZN4Uw4mnuk?... Get ready, I think this album is going to be among her best.

This veteran Nashville performer never would have hit my radar if Lily Hiatt wasn’t featured on the track. youtu.be/ScuyMFncgfY?...

I’m still looking for StarCrossed inspiration!!! youtu.be/vaq7UVHlvHg?...

I was stoked when @coastalpoet.bsky.social asked me to help inaugurate the @poetryofwitness.bsky.social effort. Thank you, Evie!!! 🖊️ 💪

So psyched to have my wildfire aftermath haiku in The Solitary Daisy!

Yeah, this could have been catastrophic. Tree fell less than two hundred yards from my house, taking down a power line. Such is life in the pines. #pines #brushfire

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Glamour I'm offering "Dictionary Definitions For When You Need Other Words For the Word Glamour." Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers.

#PoemsAbout #Glamour @thebrokenspine.co.uk I rarely use so many allusions (>10), so I do encourage you to relive history with me and watch the video I will link to in the comments:

Be like this bubble, persist…

youtu.be/Vc1VDzmei8M?... An ekphrastic piece. I’ll put an image of the painting in the comments.

visiting deer bellies on the lawn return to peace #haiku #deer #peace

Question…In Lady Stardust, what does David Bowie mean when he says, “Boys stood on their chairs to make their point of view?” Does he just mean they are trying to get a better view of the stage? #Bowie #Lady #Stardust

#PoemsAbout #WaxTears @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel or link in the comments.

This @chowhoundofficial.bsky.social piece is cringe. They are trying to say “Taylor Ham, Egg & Cheese” but they write “Taylor Egg.” Then they say “Taylor ham (a.k.a., pork roll)” Taylor Ham is a North Jersey misnomer. Taylor is one of several companies that makes pork roll. Look it up. Fuggetaboudit

I heard sweet Judy blue eyes. #7syllablesentence #sweet

#PoemsAbout #Keepsakes Those who know NYC might have wondered why several of my staff commuted from Queens to Newark. When the Customhouse at 6WTC was destroyed on 9/11, we were given a choice of reporting to JFK or Newark. JFK is in Queens, but with no car it was inaccessible for most employees.

#PoemsAbout #Keepsakes @thebrokenspine.co.uk I’ll put a reel in the comments: