My job is Notebook

Lord, help me to be the person my headshot thinks I am

The meaning of life is to be inconvenienced

It's always a good day to post Griffin.

People are basically just horses

Hearing the latest discourse by wandering into an independent bookstore and eavesdropping on the workers, as God intended

what if I get really into buildings

"Even in these dark summer nights, it’s true: moonlight is the sun’s secret crush on you."

Gregory Crosby@monostich.bsky.social · last wk.

Pleased to have two poems in the cool new journal Forget Cool.

Moulin Rogue, a play about Don Quijote

I was led to believe that ice cream socials would be a bigger part of life

Laundry as more accurate diary

John Mayer was so right when he sang "your body is a wonderland"

John Mayer was so right when he sang "I am invincible as long as I'm alive"

anything is possible if you become annoying enough

it's not how many times you drop your screwdriver, but how many times you pick it back up

the urge to take your tiny notebook out of your bag in order to write a note to yourself to put your tiny notebook back in your bag...except oh, wait.

it's such a beautiful expression: "out of the blue." I texted you from out of the blue. that's where I come from: the blue. a little Maggie Nelson-coded honestly

applying for jobs again

I feel like I had to do this

feels so rebellious to reject cookies. I'm a loner, Dottie

hiding in the bathroom, as a little treat

I do believe in a future where I know things

Rest in peace, Monty Roberts.

Monty Roberts, Horse Trainer Who Preached Kindness, Dies at 91

His approach ran counter to centuries of conventional wisdom, and it won the enthusiastic approval of Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he became friends.

nytimes.com

when organic blackberries are $1.83, I can't afford NOT to get them

to do a cart return shift at the Park Slope Food Co-op, you need comfortable shoes and an open heart

it's so fun to want things!

coming back online after two weeks away, so please tell me about any delightful things I've missed. my husband has informed me about Jimothy

A beautiful appreciation of Stephen Dobyns and his soulful poems . 💙

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics@periodicities.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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newly posted: Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social : Stephen Dobyns 1941-2026 / @uchicagopress.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/07/greg...

Gregory Crosby : Stephen Dobyns 1941-2026

The poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns died on June 14, at the age of eighty-five; I’d always admired the way he conducted his care...

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