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Beck Daniel Wren

@beckdanielwren.bsky.social
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh hey look, it’s an essay about a 15th century Flemish painting and my gender transition. Not the most obvious pairing, but I swear it works. I’m beyond thrilled that this essay has found a home at The Audacity, thanks to @roxanegay.bsky.social and Megan Pillow.
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The Outline of a Doorway
Emerging Writer Series
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My dog, the muse
Beck Daniel Wren

My dog likes to shit
atop thorny bushes

then watch
with a dark, liquid gaze

as one of Sappho’s innumerable
cow-eyed girls might watch

my bagged hand caress
every stem and arrowed twig

till the bag, inevitably, tears
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Last year’s language
Beck Daniel Wren

a night of storms gone
bare branches greet dawn light
the final leaf twists
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
On first listening to Jhumpa Lahiri in audio
After John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

Beck Daniel Wren

there are no sentences
only beat and measure and breath

when I shake her echoes out my fingers onto the page
I am uncertain where to break

what pause is comma
semicolon period

I tap the edge of each clause
like a chick testing the shell
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Instructions for Writing at the Office

1
Keep a browser tab open at all times primed and loaded to browse for shoes.
You can’t look like you have the wrong thing to hide.

2
On the hour, every hour, take three blank sheets of paper*
and walk the halls so everyone sees how busy you look.

3
Then maybe order a pair of shoes.

4
But when they arrive, return them: you can't afford a new pair of shoes,
not if you don't want to be stuck here forever.

5
You are probably going to be stuck here forever,
but hey, at least your feet can look good.

* or substitute your draft in progress, there is no meaningful difference
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Beck Daniel Wren @beckdanielwren.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Oh hello there
Avalanche
Beck Daniel Wren

my teeth don’t rest how they did before:
hills and valleys grown together, settled
by a quarter century of accommodation

testosterone raised my chin
pushed my jaw to square
and now

even when I try to shut my mouth
the words come tumbling through
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