Too late for submission, but wanted to write this anyway. About something that has remained #UnderTheSkin For @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poemsabout #poetry after language no longer fit the fjord stone falling into water depth without edge emerald veil crossing the dark

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chill southerly - lavender shifting grey to blue More haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

#WorldPangolinDay : Mark Leithauser (USA, b.1950) #Pangolin, from Lettered Creatures, 2002-03 pencil on paper, sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum 2016.52.1.19 americanart.si.edu/artwork/pang...

The feel-good story we needed.

‘I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable…’ ~ Eliot, The Dry Salvages, Four Quartets. 🖼️ The Last Turning, James Paterson, 1885.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices. drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...

it isn’t long before a representative from the dean’s office comes to a department meeting to tell his colleagues that they will have to come up with “revenue-positive” ideas to bring the department back to fiscal sustainability. He blames the graduate students’ new collective bargaining agreement.

"Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward... Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that may have only tenuous links to the university’s mission

Nina Simone (1933 ~ 2003). American Singer-Songwriter, Pianist, Composer, Civil Rights Activist. Born on this day in Tryon, NC. "What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, & it was a question of keeping myself together until they did." #BlackHistoryMonth

The tremendous world I have in my head! But how can I release it and release myself without tearing myself apart? And it is a thousand times better to tear myself apart than to keep it in check or buried in me. That is what I am here for, of that I am quite clear. #quote & #art by Kafka

Our losses: Between two and eight martyrs a day. And ten wounded. Twenty houses. And fifty olive trees... In addition to the structural faults that Damage poem, play and incomplete painting. — Mahmoud Darwish consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-art-of... #poetry #palestine #israel

Industrial-grade timeline cleanse Seriously when you see the hop

"If there is a plain of concentration camps over 130 years in the world on six continents, Auschwitz is this tower that kind of looms above all of them. So, it is critical that we keep that in mind because that shows us where it’s possible for humanity to go." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

The academic Jewish Studies world really needs to reckon more with the fact that, even as the humanities as a whole is getting gutted, the Trump administration is funding a parallel right-wing Jewish Studies cohort to produce ahistorical cases for "Judeo-Christian" civilization.

Yes! Motown happened at the right place and time. The Gordy family were entrepreneurs and gave Berry start-up funds. And yes, DPS gave students a FINE musical education well beyond the 1970s... still is, quiet as it's kept. Local foundations pay for private lessons. I took flute, then bassoon.

Our haiku prompts for 21-28 February I'm inspired by your contributions every day. The prompts are only suggestions. Do with them as you will. North South 02/21 Late Grasshopper 02/22 Seed Clear Air 02/23 Robin Mist 02/24 Blackbird Buzz 02/25 Yellow Humid 02/26 Frog Fall Colors 02/27 Buds […]

New study from the Fraunhofer Institute based on nearly 1M PHEVs in Europe concludes that they use much more fossil fuels than advertised. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵 electrek.co/2026/02/19/b...

crowshadow crossing the drowned green of the low field the lift of its wings

meet cute

we were children once a cartwheel arc of blurred toes reaching for the sky #childhood #senryu #haikusaturday #haiku #micropoerty

#haiku before they bloom they tilt forward

late winter dusk like an unworn wedding dress she folds the day away #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

together

#BlueskyArtShow #Two Two raccoons spotted at the lake’s shore. #EastCoastKin #Raccoon #Wildlife #WestCoastKin

late February this year’s daffodils unfold ahead of schedule #DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuSaturday #haiku #poetry

rain in sunlight— a footprint fills #haiku #poetry

day moon a fingernail peeking through a worn glove #DailyHaikuPrompt (day) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

#DailyHaikuPrompt (late) #haiku ten years after the last phone call autumn rain

late in the world the petals on the water made of plastic #DailyHaikuPrompt (late) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

In the study but NOT included in the article: “However, reverse causation cannot be ruled out, as some individuals may begin to use cannabis to self-medicate prodromal symptoms of psychiatric disorders even before a diagnosis is made.”

Why did ICE shackle a British tourist, a grandmother with no criminal record, who had all the correct papers, and lock her in a cell for SIX WEEKS?? Because ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. Eliminate this agency now.

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

another technology the left is excited about

Read more on this link: digventures.com/2019/07/roma...

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

The day promised so warm that after breakfast we let the stove go out and sat on the porch holding hands, watching our horses wander through the field. can you smell the green grass of that day that never was? #haibun #senryu #Sensewrds 186 Fortunate, Grazing, Ashes

Alt text: A time-worn photo of a young Kafka from the shoulders up, wearing a bowler hat. His head is slightly tilted, and he looks directly at the viewer, unsmiling but not as sad as in more famous photos of him I have seen.

princess captured in the tower~ a white crow drops a golden key #UnknownFairyTales

rounding the bend - twenty ibises in bone-dry grass More haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

Fascinating article by an excellent scholar.

"Before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 declaration that the U.S. military is 'the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,' there was Rose Robinson." sojo.net/magazine/feb...

“Let us rededicate ourselves to the long & bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, & our brothers wait eagerly for our response.” ~ The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#haiku in fading it has become luminous

#haiku ice keeps the daffodils encased

"More than 3,000 people attended the Mass and walked in the procession. "Families affected by immigration enforcement were among the first to receive ashes from Cupich, in a highly symbolic reversal of the marking and tracking many say defines their daily lives." www.ncronline.org/news/god-doe...