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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“One day: stronger wind than anyone expected. Stronger than ever before in the recording of such. Unnatural says the news. Also the body says it.” ― Jorie Graham, [To] The Last [Be] Human

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anne Carson. “You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.”

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Beware those footsteps that stop in a hush.” A poem by Anne Carson.

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Common Frank Bidart banger (from “In the Ruins,” in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.” ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red.

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Albrecht Dürer , Wing of a Blue Roller 1512 + “Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures.” ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jack Smith was the biggest Rockstar at Power To The People Fest.

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Galina Lukianova, 1981 + “Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.” ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“You think that just because it’s already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.” ― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Denise Levertov, from New and Selected Essays; “Poetry, Prophecy, Survival”

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Miroslav Bartak + “We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing." —John Berger alchemical-journals

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Protect me from [..]knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. [..] [..]Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Douglas Adams

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"What, then, is the Waste Land? It is the land where myth is patterned by authority not emergent from life;[...]it is the land where poets languish and priestly spirits thrive, whose task it is only to repeat, enforce, and elucidate cliches." ~ Joseph Campbell

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Joan of Arc by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1920s) + Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. -Winston Churchill

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Adam Clark Estes :: @adamclarkestes Attention experts recently gave me some tips on how to fix our broken brains. "Staring at a tree" sounds about right.

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Explore your light and celebrate your darkness.” ― Dacha Avelin

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea’s cold flow And man’s dark soul." Robinson Jeffers, Poet

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, [..]which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, ;..]and for our life together here. This is given. -Annie Dillard

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ulrike Rosenbach (b.1943) Performance ‘Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin’ (Don’t Believe I’m Amazon) 1976, Foto Klaus vom Bruch + "The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body." ~ Dr. Bruce Lipton, molecular biologist and epigeneticist

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"…I was my own storm once, so young and eager to raise the sail of my wanting, and I just wanted to tell you I love this old boat, this settled-in thing." from “Keel” in Ramshackle Ode by Keith Leonard, p. 2 [revmeg]

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.” ― Martha Nussbaum

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Narelle Autio, School Of Dance. Melbourne, Australia, 2001 + “Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.” ― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.” ― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

To read "Requiem" in full, visit allpoetry.com/poem/8507195...

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Abbas Kiarostami + “It wasn’t what you said”, he told her. "It was how I felt when you said it".“ — Anne Tyler

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead." ~James Baldwin

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

on forever's very now we stand - e. e cummings, 1940

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“The truth of the world is exhausting.” ― Don DeLillo, Libra

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“There’s a kind of horror that shakes you to your core, when you start believing in the devil because of what you witness and in hell because you want comfort.” ― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud” ― Anne Carson

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

[..] You, my friend, are underground & will always be there. I did not help you, but you always helped me. When I was an atheist, I believed in people. Now as a nihilist, my grief has no hope. And I could say there is no reason to keep going, but then I think of, I think of you. -gina myers

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian [Text ID: “Sometimes the year looks back, lets out a scream, Looks back, then passes out appalled.”]

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Exactly. Its not the velocity or speed that kills you, but the force, resulted from mass times acceleration. You don't get pushed to the back in a train with a constant speed, but you will get pushed to the front when it brakes.” [Math]

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” Marshall Rosenberg [alive on all channels]

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Elizabeth Scupham @allchannels.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“I am a restrained person. Otherwise my heart would race past my tongue to pour out everything. Instead I mumble, I gnaw myself. I lose hope. And my mind is burning.” ― Anne Carson, An Oresteia

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