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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Happy and grateful to have this piece from my vispo/comic "Operation Bird Heads" in the latest issue of @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social, edited by Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press. Check out the complete lineup: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...

Soft Capture

disturbed animal, lost in this
splintered harbor,
hold back
every symptom a spinning
misfortune

to each system its
unilateral calamity,
in the streets
starting tomorrow, what
exactly is
inside return

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Plugging this great book for the second time in as many years. Among other things, a healthy reminder that creating "new and different forms of social reality" is both possible and more important now than ever. #booksky @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

Book cover, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A close read of TZone episode #1 and a few other things. Link to PDF in comments if anyone is interested. I really love this cover. #essay #cnf

Cover of Potomac Review Spring 2025 issue, special them, "The Other"

First page of essay, "The Loneliness Zone."

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy to see this stretch of "the r/ver" in TIMBER 15.1. With lots of cool work by @bhutong.bsky.social, @roxgom.bsky.social, @annieraab.bsky.social, @enchilada89.bsky.social, and many others. Check out the full lineup here: timberjournal.org

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring "lady liberty" besieged by historical forces. Text begins: a stirring / outburst / , bearing / their antagonism / split / into / popular factions.

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring colonial-era icons shattered and mutilated by historical forces. Text begins: feeling in / lines, affected the / witness.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Badger the Cat and I are happy to see this one in MudRoom Mag. www.mudroommag.com/bill-marsh

Screenshot of title page for poem, "animals (with (other) animals) in their mouths"

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And feasting on a misinformed map, of course. worldmapper.org/us-president...

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Please no more about that "decisive" "sweeping" win. Meet claims with counter-claims, and real numbers (about 1.6% margin).

Latest vote count shows that Trump one by smallest margins since 19th century.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Working on the river, loving how cozy this setup feels, older machine, offline forever, no updates, no crashes, software installed from actual disks. Didn’t realize how much I missed this kind of project-based design work. Paper to scanner to screen, where the fun begins. #poetry

Computer screen, using design software to edit scanned text.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Definitely not going in the dumpster.

Rid-Jid Deluxe branding poster on surface of ironing board: a famous name in American housewares.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Looking forward to the pie. Sure wish crust grew on trees. 🌱

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Threw down a bunch of old random seeds, now a garden of mixed greens! 🌱

Mixed green leafy veggies growing in a bunch.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

It is sure to prove a grand success.

Late 19th century ad for the Simplex typewriter.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

The arm reaching out is what captured my attention. #driftwood

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Somehow all this has to become a poem.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I wrote about bees & trees in this poem that I think still wants to be an essay. Allium continues to be one of the great things about Chicago. Such an honor to be included in this new issue. #poetry

Empty ≠ Silent

There are no straight lines in nature.
This is true no matter where you stand
in nature, on the nature of straight lines
& their properties, with or against, turn
or return, since nature abhors a vacuum.

Tell me this: the bees we lost over winter,
now tracked in the trees—a rogue hive,
we believe, one rare possibility or far-
fetched faith in familiar wings & hind
markings—is a line drawn between us?

I don’t know, and the not knowing
is a backlit cloud, sunrise reconfigured
by shadow into late afternoon, where lines
are both solid & dashed, restrictive & porous.

A belated theory: the story we tell
is a fault line, parallel to the one we live
out in silence. No words, no illusions,
just last year’s swarm asleep in the trees.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Does this count as a seedling emoji? (Just in case: 🌱)

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

It all starts here, under sweating plastic. 🌱

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

A fitting end to this freakishly warm day in Chicago.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Title of my next chapbook?

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Nice to be out, of a Tuesday evening, meeting a poet friend, snow all melted, temps above freeze, enjoying this ceiling.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

“Drift” is such an unassuming word. #amshoveling

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

You live in Chicago long enough, you learn to recognize this sky may look innocent enough, but it’s got “snows a-comin” written all over it.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

And then, out of nowhere, the perfect exclamation point.

Exclamation point in text margin, black ink on white magazine copy.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

One by Rosmarie Waldrop (in POM2). And one by YT from a previous life (in Score19). #smallpoemsunday

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Santa knows I’ve been binge-reading Elena Ferrante’s breathtaking, awe-inspiring, totally captivating Neapolitan Novels for the last couple months, but I was not expecting this. Thank you, Santa!

Holding Elena Ferrante’s book, In the Margins

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Scrolling away on here, and then this happened.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Love these delightful fall days that feel like early spring.

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

People who say things like “The world is falling apart under Biden” have a very short memory.

Trump Leads according to Times/Siena poll.

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