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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1h

The scariest movie anyone ever saw as a child was WATERSHIP DOWN.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 23h

From Lisa Olstein's book, Dream Apartment: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596742 #poem #booksky #writing

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14h

all these men I just want a place for myself Joanne Kyger #SmallPoemSunday

Thursday

the quality of mind
like I am keeping track of
3 or 4 people at one time
bathing naked
A letter to Bobbie Creeley
no place to sit
all these men
I just want a place
for myself

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 22h

It’s Fleet Week in SF this week so time for my annual posting of this poem of mine thst originally appeared in the late, great Lilliput Review. #smallpoemsunday BLUE ANGELS OVER SAN FRANCISCO We hardly noticed the cage being rattled (we hardly ever notice the cage).

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 20h

"I want you to know it too." Two poems by Najwan Darwish from NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW (Yale Margellos, 2024), transl. Kareem James Abu-Zeid, for #smallPoemSunday. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Land

Land, how much misery
you've brought to your people.
They're wretched when they have you,
wretched when they lose you.

Land, if only
we could inhabit the clouds.

Lost

That which is lost for forever,
that which that no one knows
but me–
I want you to know it too.
If it's lost but you know it
it's as if
it was never lost.

My hands are open,
and in every home I pour it out–
the childhood
I once had.

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 22h

A poem of mine in Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/07/touc...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Just Like in the Movies
They say there is no sound on the moon.
Please listen carefully to me.
What does desire feel like?
Like my tongue in your ear.
Like your hand in mine.
Closing credits go on and on and
on.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 22h

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote or ones you love by other poets :) here’s one by me, from Reclaimed Water~

Possum Heaven

and the gone little soul on the side of the road said,
one day I will be part of a flower

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 22h

the sparrows transpose their song / to a minor key.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23h

I have two tiny poems in the latest issue of @petrichorlit.bsky.social 🐂 here's one of them petrichormag.com/31-pebbles-v... #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The Reason for the Traffic Jam

A lit candle
in the wound
of a bull. This
is all we know
at this time.

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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love her brilliance!☀️☀️ 'Flood' by Gillian Clarke @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some Simic for #smallpoemsunday Fear Fear passes from man to man Unknowing, As one leaf passes its shudder To another.

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A day late for Susan’s gorgeous haiku. @andrewssusanm.bsky.social clouds drift… Owl, the emissary from moon Also for #smallpoemsunday #HaikuSaturday #haiku #VersionsHaikuSaturday #Oulens #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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spaceghost @spaceghost.boo · 04/10/2026

Matthew Rohrer, from The Sky Contains the Plans. #booksky #smallpoemsunday #poetry

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For #SmallPoemSunday, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social here is Field Document, collected in *Dance On*, forthcoming from Wordrunner Press, November 15:

Field Document

I saw a woman on fire,
how she was burning,
I saw nothing like smoke,
only the eyes in a flame
clear like thought
never is. You can hear
this and not believe it
and she will not care.
Her eyes, though, do
see it all, finally.

Cover of Dance On, with a drawing of a dancing horse and the cursive in red "When the Gods to dancing may they always invite you".

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beautiful and enigmatic poem by Rilke ..

Before Summer Rain

Suddenly, from all the green around you,
something-you don't know what-has disappeared;
you feel it creeping closer to the window,
in total silence. From the nearby wood

you hear the urgent whistling of a plover,
reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome:
so much solitude and passion come
from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour

will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide
away from us, cautiously, as though
they weren't supposed to hear what we are saying.

And reflected on the faded tapestries now;
the chill, uncertain sunlight of those long
childhood hours when you were so afraid.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Matthew Murrey ♥️ from LITTLE JOY (Cornerstone Press) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @mytwords.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Before the Dancers,

their shadows.
Before the fire, the hanging
breath. Before the kiss, the toss
and turn. Before the poem,
the page. Before death, sleep—
or was it death, then sleep?
Maybe I've had it wrong all along:
maybe the dancers, then their shadows.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No complaints, but somehow my poetry feed has been taken over by Kids In The Hall clips?

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YIMBY Action leads are voting on a recommendation for Prop 45 today. If you or any of your friends are on the fence, I highly recommend reading this great thread. Tl;dr: AB130 already exempted infill housing from CEQA. Prop 45 would just open the floodgates for sprawl.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This poor Black Phoebe flew straight into my dining room window today. Thankfully, after an hour's recovery in a shoebox, it was able to fly away without a problem!

A black phoebe sitting on an outstretched hand

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MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🤭🤭🤭 MICHAEL CHANG’s next full-length collection will be No. 27 in the City Lights Spotlight series. Coming to you in early 2027. Pls preorder 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 — citylights.com/poetry-city-...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY is a good day to pre-order 😆 Contributor Michael Chang @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social’s new collection BOYS OF THE EARTH is forthcoming 2027 as No. 27 in the City Lights Spotlight series 🎉 buff.ly/5bwVvS2

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

milkweed.org/book/pink-th... Order now, get surprised in January

milkweed.org

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She speaks of salt going damp in the jar

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What does it mean to suspend a sports team's owner? Does that mean the team will not play?

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ugh October not Octobering correctly here in Sacramento

7 day forecast showing highs in the upper 90s

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last two batches of grapes for #harvest2026 are in today: Mourvedre & Cabernet Franc. Now I can go to sleep until next August, right?

3 bins of red grapes next to a red brick wall

Six bins of red grapes on a flatbed truck

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am in the shining middle of something good

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Joseph Donahue

Something somewhere
is eclipsing something else.
Now, suddenly, looking up,
the sky is different. Some
great joy may be about
to transform your life.
The moon glows red.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know life by the blurred periphery / of its passing

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The pond beside us the product of what the land wants when the rain arrives

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A great upheaval rehearses itself / in a woman reading the last stanza / of an elegy in which a man disfigured / for life is preparing to fight a hummingbird.” —Mary Ruefle, “Red Sleeves” @newenglandreview.bsky.social

RED SLEEEVES. A great upheaval rehearses itself in a woman reading the last stanza of an elegy in which a man disfigured for life is preparing to fight a hummingbird. She cries softly into her red sleeves. The candle also is red, and white where mice have gnawed out their hearts, passing another winter like crazy women changing lip color in a ladies’ room. Everything outside is brown and full of ideas: not quite spring, a woodpecker percolates in the top of a butternut tree. He has not yet shown his breast. Soon, fat roses will be breathing heavily in the dark. Mary Ruefle

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't bring one, but ask for an iced coffee when you get there. If they don't give you one, they're not worth working for.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why not Dolores Huerta? We're pretty quick to put dude's names on things when we feel they made an important contribution. When it's a female, we love to attribute it to "the movement."

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, y'all. Laughing this hard makes my back hurt.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Such truth: Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter theonion.com/last-peach-o...

theonion.com

Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Corollary: I will have one full day in Joshua Tree... What are the best things to see?

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anybody out there spent much time in Santa Fe lately? Will be there for a few days around the holidays & looking for recommendations! Georgia O'Keeffe museum/house & Meow Wolf already in the mix, but what else should I do? Where should I eat?

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t remember the sirens, but someone / must’ve come to help

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