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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“I miss that valley heat, the scent of manure and semi-truck diesel, of chlorine and my mother’s pool-wet cheek.” From “Memento Vivere,” a poem, by Carson Sandell (@csandell.bsky.social). theoffingmag.com/poetry/memen...

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Memento Vivere - The Offing

Poetry - The Offing Magazine

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My poem "Memento Vivere" is published in @theoffingmag.bsky.social I'm forever grateful to the editors and readers who advocated and accepted this piece.

The title of the poem "Memento Vivere". Below the title is Carson Sandell and the date 18 Feb 2026. Below that is a photo of Yucca with blue skies and clouds in the background. The picture is attributed to Michael Yantis on Unsplash.

I’m most alive those time-stretched mornings
where mayflies drop in death and the dried
swarm smells of wharf-wood, where clouds are
hand-raked and copper hedgerows mirror
the limpness of Mojave sand, a small brown owl
crawls back in the cool burrow, full stomached,
from its beak a two-note coo gusts through
yucca spine, juniper bark, longhorn beetles eat
elderberry leaves in the valley. I miss that valley
heat, the scent of manure and semi-truck diesel,
of chlorine and my mother’s pool-wet cheek.
my neighbor with a shovel scrapes a possum off
the road, iron skips across asphalt, black eyes
like stigmatas, gray-brown fur left in the street,
a ratking of fingers reach out its stomach and like
this underbelly of young death, we long for
our mothers to breathe again, strong as bird lime.

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davidcronenbergscrash @selizabeth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Transmasc Marvel Girl, the follow-up to my chapbook, Heaven, Ekphrasis, is coming out with @kithbooks.bsky.social this spring!! It's like a sequel that's even more more mad, horny, embodied, speculative, poltical, heartbreaking, and transgender! 🎞️🩸👩‍🍼🏳️‍⚧️🧟👽⛈️👬👭👅🍑💦 #poetry #queer #sci-fi #literature

book announcement graphic for "Transmasc Marvel Girl: Poems" by sterling-elizabeth arcadia, out Spring 2026 with Kith Books. On a Black background in the top right quadrant of the image, a portion of a white linework sketch shows some feathers and the claws of a hawk carrying some red and white entrails. In the middle of the page, in all caps, in red, "Announcing:" and below it, also centered horizontally, in white text, the name of the collection and author, then in gray text "Spring 2026 with Kith Books"

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I just know transphobic Superman would use his x-ray vision for unseen and unrivaled levels of osteology

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Transitioning is the real life embodiment of an ouroboros

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The sun and moon are polyamorous and I oh so desperately need to be their third

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I haven't posted on here in a long time, here is a draft of my late mother's Facebook timeline channeled through a cento. I hope you like it!

Cento of My Mother’s Facebook Timeline

my son my sweet-
heart I am still alive
we
need to get together
again last time
I saw my son
his son was playing
my son was playing
football
last time I saw
my late son
he ditched me
I am having a hard time
right now my ex-
husband is getting
married I am waiting
how are you young
lady I miss you
a lot I still wish
you happy
birthday
my son my sweetheart
I wish my days were
longer

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

ETHEL CAIN YOU CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS TO MEEEEE

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I feel like my first poetry collection is coming together

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I think I'm ready to shop around my craft essay about lack of punctuation as a technique of transpoetics.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Wrote a short poem, I don't know if it's anything.

A Facebook Friend Wishes My Dead Mother a Happy Birthday

someone believes she is alive. who am I
to deny them that reality?
what is my role in this web-mess of grief?

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My ferritin levels went up, this could be caused by a lot of things and all of them are scary. I’m freaked out

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I got blood done work done this morning because my ferritin levels were abnormally high. I hope the results come back normal because the causes of high ferritin levels are terrifying.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Working on a craft essay about how lack of punctuation in poetry can be a transpoetic technique

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just remembered my mother was bisexual. I'm never going to shut up about this.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’ve got a lot of rejections on my work this week so I’m feeling very very down about my writing

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is a Marie Howe fan page forever and always

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The ugly stepsister is such a good movie omg

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I got bit by a spider and had some side effects. I went to the ER and they said everything was fine. That goes hundreds of dollars down the drain that I don’t have. Why am I like this😭

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Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

the trend of ‘explain this to me like I’m five’ is a direct consequence of defunding education. functional illiteracy is a national crisis, one that this administration relies on to maintain power

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I hope we fumigate this house because we’ve been dealing with bugs for so damn long

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Anyway if anyone has tips to deal with carpet beetles, it would be much appreciated!

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I’ve seen a few carpet beetles in my room the past few days and I swear to god if our house is infested I’m going to lose it.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So tempted to write a poem titled “A Porn Bot Likes a Photo of My Dead Mother”

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

tell your friends! tell your enemies! join us!

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Without” by Donald Hall might be one of my favorite collections ever

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yeats was a lesbian! What do you mean he and his wife George talked to ghosts and then channeled it into his work.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The enjambment of “gone” breaks me every time, such a perfect poem. I miss you mom💕

At Night
Stanley Plumly 1939 - 2019

When did I know that I'd have to carry it around
in order to have it when I need it, say in a pocket,

the dark itself not dark enough but needing to be added to, handful by handful if necessary, until

the way my mother would sit all night in a room
without the lights, smoking, until she disappeared?

Where would she go, because I would go there.
In the morning, nothing but a blanket and all her

absence and the feeling in the air of happiness.
And so much loneliness, a kind of purity of being

and emptiness, no one you are or could ever be,
my mother like another me in another life, gone

where I will go, night now likely dark enough
I can be alone as I've never been alone before.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"Loose-jawed anchovy swimming circles in the aquarium display & from a cheek pressed against the laminated glass: is that fish hurt?" We're loving Laetitia Keok's beautiful poem MINOR SUBJECTS from our new MARCH ISSUE 💕 buff.ly/bxnrOAE

Black and white photo of a fish bowl on a small end table with a tall house plant in the background.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

H.D. really said “let me write a sequence” then proceed to do that 1,000 times over.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I am always so compelled when Yeats employs a longer line. There is a magic when he follows where the language wants to be parsed not when the meter wants to. It creates an un-anchoring. Funnily enough when he works with longer lines his meter is far more varied and versatile.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’m just really frustrated because I’m not being pushed or challenged enough as a writer. I feel like I’m stagnating and becoming too comfortable.

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salem 𑣥 void ☿🪽(angel bear) @thewarmvoid.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

hey while yr celebrating twitter being down just know that sex workers are usually materially harmed by these occurrences pretty quickly and aggressively.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Attempting a villanelle wish me luck✨

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

depends on what process works for you, ultimately, but generally it's better, i think, to have desires (dreams, questions, fiery directions) for your poems than designs (set plans, firm goals)

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I see Alex Dimitrov is fighting with poets again, he should interrogate why he’s always fighting with poets of color.

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If you gave me an hour with Yeats I could make him a tgirl lesbian

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