Rebecca Brock
@wordsbyrb.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Mama. Stewardess. Always homesick, never at home. Words in Threepenny Review, River Heron Review, Rust + Moth, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Whale Road Review & elsewhere. Author of “The Way Land Breaks” https://www.rebeccabrock.org
This little bit of lovely arrived a few weeks ago from @tinywrenlit.bsky.social —EARTH: Poems of Presence and Possibility. I don’t often write tiny poems so this feels extra sweet & if you are looking for tangible beauty to hold in your hands, @tinywrenlit.bsky.social makes small & beautiful books.
“I don’t know what happens to a person between one thing and the next, how it holds through bones—beneath skin” Excerpt from Rebecca Brock’s “Geologic Unconformity.” Listen to Brock read it here: https://buff.ly/414irIw #writingcommunity
A poem of mine, from this summer, that was published in the beautiful @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social. And here I am still asking why, and how. psalteryandlyre.org/2024/07/15/e...
This poem by Lisa Zimmerman from @swwim.bsky.social is holding Mr steady today: “I didn’t know I loved so much of the vanishing world…” www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...
SWWIM Every Day — SWWIM
by Lisa Zimmerman After a photograph by Julie Adams My neighbor says whenever she’s sad she sits down with a cup of tea and writes a list of fifty things she loves, you k...
swwim.org
Hello Bluesky friends—I have a new poem in the world today. ❤️ I’m grateful to Thrush for taking this poem that says: “A mother knows everything…” but as I get ready to send my oldest kiddo into the wider world I know I know nothing. ❤️ www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-202...
November 2023 Rebecca Brock
At the Corn Maze, I Wait — My body an old wound, always healing. I am used to waiting. My husband, my youngest son, go without looking back. My firstborn—hesitates. For a moment, he tends...
thrushpoetryjournal.com
Hey there! 🤓 My poem “My Mother Suggests a Tranquilizer” was nominated for BOTN by Literary Mama 😍🐘🦏🦁😍 I’d love for you to check it out! (🌟link in bio🌟)
