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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti)

@adrianf.bsky.social

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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). words -> adriandallas.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

an old shorty from @havehashad.com for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social www.havehashad.com/hadposts/3-s...

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my bona fides

A certificate from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Annapolis MD 21401 that shows an ink drawing of horseshoe crab with the following text

Certificate of Participation From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
Cooperative Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program
TAG NUMBER: 573695
TAGGING AGENCY:
Sacred Heart University
RELEASE
Summer 2026*
Various Long Island Beaches, Long Island Sound, CT
*indicates preliminary data
RECAPTURE
9/23/2026
Stratford Point, Bennet's Cove, Long Island Sound, CT

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saturday storm reading

A blurry photo of the book “vice: new and selected poems” by poet Ai. It’s cover shows and old black and white photo of two men in a jail car, covering their faces with hats.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I play the tromboncino

Adrian, in a brown shirt and grey shorts and orange hat, holds a large green trombocino squash like it’s a guitar. They’re standing in front of a brick wall next to a red chair

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

took the derp to the forest

Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, stands on small wooden footbridge in a purple harness looking at the camera. Woods in the background.

Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, walks thru tall grass in a purple harness looking at the camera.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller. Gertrude Stein

Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly. These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
Incy is short for incubus.
A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble, the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and render clean, render clean must.
Drink pups.
Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. It shows a nail.
What is a nail. A nail is unison.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

go, Sheila! (good to see spotted lantern flies integrated into the local food cycle)

a brown orb weaver spider with striped legs hovers on its web over a web-wrapped spotted lantern fly, a colorful moth like insect that’s mostly gray with little black spots and a flash of red on its wing.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

well, that's not...

What appears to be a Canva or AI generated diagram of scientists wrangling a soul coming out of a body on a hospital bed using a long red tether, while flowcharts explain the experiment all around the image.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

an orb weaver set up camp right outside the screen door

A pink post-it note stuck to a screen door reading “Mind Sheila!” with a tiny spider drawing

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

labor daybor with this hunk (cc: @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social)

Greg, the three-legged brown lab, looks into the camera, smiling. Behind him is green grass and a blue sky with big white clouds.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The tired brain gathers and lets go

The Valley of Aijalon
Babette Deutsch
I have forgotten precious things:
Wisdom in books, the words of lovers, But not the shadow on the waters Cast by a hidden sea-gulls' wings.
I have forgotten many a pledge
Given and taken-fear and hunger
That once were knives-but not the pewter Of olives from a mountain's edge.
The tired brain gathers and lets go Faces and cities, wars and weathers, But keeps one sun as still as Joshua's On honey-bright unbroken

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am become Bene Gesserit. My only salvation from mosquitoes.

Adrian, with a grey mosquito net veil over hos face stands in front of a brick wall.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

without saying your age, fave movie that came out when you were 20

A spooky red image of a neighborhood streetscape with a spectral bat-like form appearing in the center

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The margin is a widening condition." in the most recent issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: Image Study by Sarah Ghazal Ali #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Image Study by Sarah Ghazal Ali

The margin is a widening condition. Stars asleep in the ward I left.
Between survival and not-: breathwidth. Between her stillsoft head and the barred bed: two adult fists could fit. In the apartment on unwashed sheets I look away from the blank crib instead at instead into a photograph on a screen. A face within looks across fathoms to meet my looking. Fear has a photosensitive surface. I make the light it needs. What else without her do I have to feed. Despite the respite of temporary distance my speculations leak through. All alike until animated in either direction of belief. I assemble my theories, though it goes without seeing, my saying who she is. A margin of pixels, abyssal. I know no tomorrow. Nor the yesterday immobile in my hand. An object that cannot object depicts. The depiction can conjure but cannot be grief. A bond trails after and binds if one is lucky. One of us was lucky. You can't see my mouth. I've punctured there a grin.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

look at this Daddy!

a large, grey iguana sits on a white fence in front of some flowers and shrubbery

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

so obsessed with commas, i grew one

an upsettingly comma-shaped cucumber placed on a wooden table

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

a wee rhyme concern #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Claude's Breakfast
A man prompts The Machine.
Jelly flows from his phone, drips into ears & eyes.
They teem:
so many words
to the treacle
like flies.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

f*cking Florida - the sign says “these books are banned, let’s make them popular again” - and that bottom shelf 😖

A section of Banned Books that includes the Harry Potter series.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

proof i was alive, in case mosquitoes abscond with my body

Adrian, eyes closed, in a brown shirt that says “lordship” in brown letters and an orange hat with an embroidered monarch butterfly raises the peace sign in front of a brick wall

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

sometimes i look back

Adrian, in a seafoam colored tank top, lays back on a green couch and looks directly into the camera. Short gay with mustache and blue eyes.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hate the patient, love the pee:

screenshot of some text reading: "her clothes reeked of urine. My disgust, my fear that other patients would encounter a bad smell in my office would have been less tolerable and more distracting if not for Winnicott's (1949) permission "objectively to hate" the patient. That particular oxymoron absorbed my aggression toward her and freed me to speculate on the meanings of feeling "peed on." My goal was to contine to prove a holding environment surviving her dirt and destructiveness--but also to move the treatment further along the lines of the (Lacanian) Symbolic in order to help her grapple with the question of desire.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

and in their separate robo-forms:

screenshot of some caption text that reads "Saatch and Melo Ponti"

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Taking a course on Lacan over Zoom. The instructor announced his next course on Phenomenology and the transcript Voltron-ed together 2 of my favorite French thinkers into the über-philosopher:

screenshot that reads "And that is not unrelated, of course, because I'll be talking about Sertrelo Ponti"

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

she goes out into the garden for 10 mins and gets welted.

raised red marks on Adrian’s forearm (with the eraser end of a pencil tattoo in virw) Adrian scowls from the corner frame.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

these were just the ones I could reach!

a gauzy shot of a bowl filled with giant freshly picked cucumbers

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

watching Disclosure Day

a tweet from Cullen Swamp Trash crawford that reads: me and my friends would’ve killed ET with hammers i can tell you that much.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

look who came to visit and do rollies on the grass!!!

a beautiful young red fox with a white chin sits in a green field and stares at the ground

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lord-fear-know-hear-exclude-eviscerate poets.org/poem/heave-s...

Earn-encourage-eat-eat-expose-fall-fear Exploit-grow-get-forget-frustrate-engineer
Govern-hate follow-flood hunt-help-destroy
Engage-live-exploit earn-lose-employ
Love-hunt-hate-hook-ignore-inflict-invite
Impede-enforce-establish fight-fiend-delight
Invest-invent-lose-include-join-lash-fill
Dominate-manipulate fight-frustrate-kill
Interpret-evict justify-enforce
Expend-expect-hurt divide-feed-divorce
Dream-disrupt-dream-forget-end-dismiss-evade
Dream-divide-dream-erect-exploit-expose-free trade!
Lord-fear-know-hear-exclude-eviscerate
Heave-force-heave-hunt-expose-manipulate

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i think the last reader was playing Chutes & Ladders?

an open book with small print but several markings in thick orange and red pen that make geometrical patterns, like a big X across the page

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

bit off more than she could chew, Chompers did.

Photo of a deer on a lawn trying to eat a green apple that is far too big for her mouth. Her big doe eyes with lashes look into the camera.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

back on the horse 🐴

2 books by Jacques Derrida. Thinking Out of Sight is a white hardback, sitting next to the paper back of Writing and Difference.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

do i get the Lenin candle holders?

a set of white porcelain like Lenin candle holders

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

new goal: become Taschen Monkey

A large baboon like monkey lounges comfortably under a sheet on a baroque setee. Text says “Taschen: Rich books for poor times.”

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Quite fond of little lectures like these. This was my first Rorty. Will delve further. (whole book as PDF here:) www.sackett.net/Philosophy-a...

Picture of the book cover for Philosophy as Poetry by Richard Rorty (Introduction by Michael Bérubé. Afterword by Mary V. Rorty. The book cover is a close up shot of half of the author's face, in black and white. He has rather impressive curly-queue eyebrows and a stern, but amicable gaze.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

kids' names out of control

Picture of a label reading "Sweetened by Sunshine at SPLENDA STEVIA FARMS"

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

workshopping MS titles...

Specious Creatures (in italics)
Gay-Ass Zoopoetics

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

some flotsam

Mikey, the brown chihuahua, inspects a deflated american flag mylar balloon

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

happy pride

3 orange and black milkweed bugs mating on a leaf

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

it’s me!

On an airplane, a small sign on the seat reads “Handy pocket for literature only”

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Language is made up of words and phrases that, supposedly, mean discrete and knowable things. In order to 'mean things' though, the sedimented histories and repressions attached to the word get passed over. However, when we push these words out and through certain passageways-like a screen, a window, a portal, a mouth-the word clips, letting something of its material spill out anew.

This poem is from a series of poems concerned with clipping. In a time of the clip, the take, what can be given wholly?
Very much, of course, and too much-a little, sometimes, still."
—Jos Charles

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jos Charles, every time

A Song [I was want/
Jos Charles

I was want ing the most bare language threaded bare ly there a bar on in english everywhere I went I langu ished in a war rent of a lang uage I did or did not want once in ame rica there w as a language we were guilt y I spoke it y ou were there

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

this is Jewel

Adrian, in a purple shirt, is holding a small white dog in a red harness. She has big brown eyes.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

santa cruzing

Michael and Adrian at the beach smiling

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

neato!

3 grey pamphlets, “What is Fear?” by Giorgio Agamben, Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin and The Usefulness of Crime, Karl Marx. The top pamphlets all have small inked drawings of a plague masked doctor, a book with patterns and a ring of keys, respectively

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

TEMPORAL HORN.

a picture or partial sign wording reading IRE, USE STAIRWE ELEVATOR
S A TEMPORAL HORN.
5 WILL FLASH.
LL PROCEED TO THE N AIT ASSISTANCE.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“don’t make covers like we yewsto”

Pulp book cover for John Steinbeck’s “The Pastures of Heaven” which shows a woman in long skirt holding a well bucket, with a man in white coat drinking from a mug behind her. Bantam Books 35¢ “Nearly Eight Million of Steinbeck’s Great Books are now in Bantam Editions”

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A rescue from the Notes App for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social this is prob subliminally inspired by the great @neonpajamas.bsky.social

The Naked Ringmaster
You peer through a glowing slit in the circus tent
and watch clowns set fire to your garb of secrets.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Begriffed, bothered and bewildered (really tho, this was a neat chaser…)

Black book on a green blanket, which shows a black and white Picasso like painting of a man and two headed bull. The book’s text reads: "A series of audacious readings of a 'non-teleological' Hegel."
- Choice
FREDRIC JAMESON THE HEGEL VARIATIONS
On the Phenomenology of Spirit

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Happy Pride, fellow philosofags! I finished all of “The Phenomenology of Spirit” today! (I can’t tell if H looks mean or sad or sexy…prob all 3 cuz she loves her a tripartite scheme…)

The cover of THE CAMBRIDGE
HEGEL TRANSLATIONS
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit which is a green book with. black and white portrait of Hegel, looking ambiguously stern and properly jowly for an early 19th C scholar.

Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

grass flower corsage

adrian holds a small bouquet of flowers found in the grass, including dandelion, clover flower and flowering galium