🎶 I am the LEGO model of the Middle Earth Five Armies Battle 🎵
J-T Kelly
@j-tkelly.bsky.social
poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html
My aging parents live on the house with us. But lest you imagine this to be a hardship, it mostly means I get to borrow their medicines for aching backs.
Small piece up at The Los Angeles Review 🎪🎪🎪 losangelesreview.org/flame-by-geraldine-clarkson/ @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #BlueDiodePress
FLAME by Geraldine Clarkson - The Los Angeles Review
Geraldine Clarkson is a writer of Irish heritage, who lives in the English Midlands. Her poetry and prose have been published widely in literary journals internationally. Recent chapbooks are Singleta...
losangelesreview.org
A formal poem is this then that, Then that another three times. If we're lucky, third time's a surprise, And the m-----f----- rhymes.
Two albums I've been listening to and loving: Bad Love by Randy Newman North by Elvis Costello
Back problems and money problems, but in matters of love I'm rich. And nobody from the government is after me.
The Muppet Show but Kermit is the only character played by a human actor
Twice a year my kids’ school does Saturday School, a half day of classes on a Saturday. Parents attend alongside their children. I just sat with my 9 yo and listened to the story of Gilgamesh
“Someone is looking through me at you.” A poem by Andrei Codrescu.
All these recipes call for ingredients. Don't they know how expensive ingredients are?!
With thanks to the editors of Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, who previously published some of the poems included in #Palomines
I've just spotted that this is available!! 😲👙👙 A few sample poems--& outrageously kind blurbs from @lukekennard.bsky.social & @billherbert.bsky.social--on the link below... Thanks to Rob Mackenzie & the Blurbers! 🎶🎸 Buy multiple copies here NOW to make them smile --😊 bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
3 yo had discovered the Talking Heads. 🎶 "Letting the days go by (mumble mumble mumble) Letting the days go by (mumble mumble mumble)" 🎵
3 yo is singing as she plays by herself. Here's the bit I just overheard: 🎶 Shooting in the sky / with a life jacket on / Everyone together / We have to get out 🎵
In his quest to become immortal he has already attained what many would consider middle age. It’s really something
freshly showered, fed; manicured, oudh-perfumed, and reprehensible.
I'm camping. Daddy-Daughter Campout. This little guy said hello to me and my 3 yo on a hike