an anthology called DOGPILE with poems titled stuff like "You Don't Hate Small Talk You Hate Yourself"

another thing. about having a cat. they hear a few minutes of keyboard clickitty clack. and they come over and demand your lap. because they know you aren't moving for a while. but you can't write with a monocle of cat butt bobbing in front of your eyes. maybe i should give up writing.

the teenage girls who live on my block are on skateboards while their huskies pull them down the street and i just love how joy arrives looking like anything

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i love sleeping in when you have a cat. i love this small creature that thinks the best way to determine if i am dead is to stand on me.

if you want to know the kind of person i am i got a little drunk and was like let's bake CABBAGE

anyway I am drunk ask me anything

Mary Oliver: you do not have to be g-- *me playing the entirety of Dave Matthew Band's "Ants Go Marching" via kazoo and burps* Mary Oliver: --good at that. Like. Please choose something else.

I love the things that are better because of other things. The post-mow beer. The stove lamp on and you’re the last one up. The bad day cured bc you saw a kid in the park practicing his jump shot. The house emptied but then you smell your wife’s shampoo on her pillow. Etc.

think it's time to stop working on book two and start working on book three

can't stop laughing😭

neighbors got a new dog that has barked about 1,000 times in the last hour or so :(

if i was a rebel I would simply buy Clue??????

poetry is hard because one moment you'll think you need a specific phrase to fill a prosodic move across a stanza and the next you'll wonder if you've internalized too deeply the rule of three re: images in poems

one of the IT guys at work bought my book 😭

an em-dash is punctuation but an Em Dash is when you sprint from the ghost of a furious poet

just found a note that reads "inside of my wolf there are two husbands"

*me, cooking a whole red onion to go with my lunch* is this counter culture

daughter is ten and unsure what to read so I just gave her the first Earthsea book 🥳

P.S. I would still like for people to read THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and then look at themselves and be like "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need to be the protagonist of a fairytale horror story in a magical forest" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Butcher of the Forest

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poets, you ever just say anaphora anaphora anaphora to make yourself laugh

*opening scene shows a good night* *a door slams shut*

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

it's funny how the basic thesis behind ppl who believe in the male loneliness epidemic is that she is in some way responsible for this

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · last wk.

male loneliness epidemic is here to stay

had a dream last night my cat got out of the house and ran into my neighbor's house who, for some reason, had a pet bear, and when I chased my cat trying to get her out of his house I said sorry and he said "I have a bear"

@toddedillard.bsky.social

you ever read something and go "this person did not follow the seven ethical considerations when conducting research"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death has been convicted of aggravated murder in his death

dreamed last night I won an award for a poem the poem: Imitation Crab A poem is imitation crab.

dreamed last night I won an award for a poem the poem: Imitation Crab A poem is imitation crab.

poet: I am very influenced by the things I have or that are around me disappointed parents: why don't you write about having money poet: disappointed parents: or health insurance