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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

quote of the day: excerpt from "How Can I Bring This Poem to a Halt" by Garous Abdolmalekian trans. from Persian by Siavash Saadlou "I write, 'Door,' and open it so that you can come in." poems.com/poem/untitle...

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

poem of the day "Who" by Abe Louise Young "Where are the other / animals that wallow / in purple fringed regret / like I do?" poets.org/poem/who-1

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Who are the other mammals

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"Dry pages saved me / Often from wet pain" Shay Willis www.coolbeanslit.com/shay-wills

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Shay Wills | Cool Beans Lit

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🧶 e(i Issue 6: yarn is LIVE! 🧶 Our #spotlight is on Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social w/ this meditation on time & perspective. Check out their work at buff.ly/Z8rgDrq ! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/MgdMqMo! Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. This #Spotlight is on Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social ! #poetry #writingcommunity #author #authors #writers

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"I was having a moment, / so I went home / and covered myself in princess stickers." - Matt Broaddus

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"How could anybody be glum / in this superlative weather? Well, / I'll tell you. The day is a young / bubble, with a tiny fire at its core." - Amy Gerstler

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"...how can the oceans / swallow so much color / and remain so terrifically blue?" - Amy Gerstler

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"You were inside me like my pulse" - Marilyn Hacker

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"in the mirror there are murmurations/ and inside the murmurations there are starlings" - Jose-Luis Mocetzuma

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Words are the only victors." - Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"History is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness" - Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Is the poem an ember, a lake, or a hole I run my tongue through?" - Kyle Okeke from "Butterflies" in Poetry, Oct '23

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"Will anyone lessen the losing? Will anyone lessen the loss?" - Jay Bernard from "Losers" The Slowdown Show www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2019...

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202: Losers

Today's poem is Losers by Jay Bernard.

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"What song made us ask the wrong questions? What joke made us laugh closing doors on our true selves?" - Gabriel Ramirez from "Abuelo," in Poetry, Oct 2023

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"Is the soul hairless? Does it never secrete or flake?" - Molly Peacock from "Question"

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"The length of ideas? Infinity's stride. Translucent." - Molly Peacock from "The Widow's Crayon Box"

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"What word would you use to describe me now. Imperishable? Imperishable." - Lucy Brock-Broido From "Still Life with Aspirin" - Trouble in Mind

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Who would I be if Ruth had never hugged me back into myself?" - Omotara James from "Ruthless" - American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"I step on dry topsoil but sense moisture beneath. In this life, if you do not know what you are looking for, how can you find it?" - Arthur Sze from "Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin" - The New Yorker Mar 24, 2025

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Has anyone seen a scorpion? No worries if not. He's one of the tiny ones, which means he's really poisonous while also being hard to see." - TJ Klune The joys and dangers of magical children... from Somewhere Beyond the Sea (212)

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"You rise before the sun for the sake of what? An event? Like an echo, the owl's faint bark." - Sally Keith from "Spent" in The American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"This is not the worst possible outcome, in astrological time. What's one little asteroid the size of an ice cream truck?" - Tolu Oloruntoba from "Ways to Describe an Asteroid" in The American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"'Isn't it dangerous to hold them in your mouth like that?'" - Catherine Barnett from "Untitled" in the American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 2024

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Why is the body still working, if it knows what's to come-- Isn't it cowed?" - W.J. Herbert from "When Knowing Is the Same as Late Winter Waiting" AQR winter/spring 2025

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrow?" - TJ Klune from Somewhere Beyond the Sea (171)

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Why wouldn't you fear the thunder, the night, the ocean?" - Charlotte Pence From "Primordial" AQR winter/spring 2025

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Do orchids cry when colliding With grief?" - Sarah Parmet From "I Dreamt of Orchids That Night" The MacGuffin Nov '24

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Allison Burris @asburrispoet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Can artists be minimalists? Explore this idea with me: allisonburris.substack.com/p/can-artist...

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