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Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seahorse Anniversary | Rebecca Hawkes | Frozen Sea - Issue Thirteen @gorsebloom.bsky.social

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Very happy to be among friends in the new issue of Shō

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Today I'm saddened to hear of the loss of Jools Topp. The Topp Twins have been lifelong icons of community spirit and a better, brighter, more inclusive New Zealand. I wrote this poem a few years ago for an event honoring our queer ancestors, later published with Cordite. Photos via RNZ

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Oh those final words. From Ursula K. Le Guin's Collected Poems. #poem #booksky #writing

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Very happy to see this mushroom-foraging poem in the Missouri Review! A love (hate) letter to sultry summers in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Busting out my one Kiwi Christmas poem for our southern summer solstice..... Barbecues and beers and sunburn and pōhutukawa in full flower oh my

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Reading in Christchurch tomorrow to launch our Nick's new book!!!! He has been redirected via mighty Timaru!!!!!!The flights have been nightmarish but you can mosey right on in to Scorpio (it won't be windy any more, they put that on just for us)

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️‍🔥 sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...

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Sixth Finch - Spring 2025

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!

A beautiful grasshopper molt. It’s very detailed but translucent. Almost all the legs are entirely intact.

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

God would still love you if you were a worm

Worm theology is the idea in Christian culture that in light of God's holiness and power an appropriate emotion is a humble view of self.[citation needed] The name may be attributed to a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (Pub 1707)[1] which says "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?" Furthermore, worm theology can be attributed to a recognition of the ugliness of sin, resulting in contrition.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem

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University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection. [MS 2087]

Shows a pages of a detailed illuminated manuscript, with flowers, gold gilt and painted figures in a scene with animals

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 24/02/2025

The sun is trying to come out in Oxford today, so to celebrate please enjoy this illustration from MS Bodl 614 (which you can explore on Digital Bodleian here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a43b...). It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays

An illuminated manuscript page featuring a large, detailed drawing of a golden sun with radiating beams at the centre against a circular terracotta background, surrounded by text in Latin script.

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Poet prom face brought to you by the $4 Shrek Puss in Boots eyeshadow palette from TJ Maxx

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A THIRD DISTANCE. check it out on Substack open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Insisting on calling Christ's stigmata the "Glory Holes"

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Received feedback on my poems again 😔

Screenshot from Severance of Mr Milkshake's performance review, the first complaint being "uses too many big words"

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

. Love Poem There is no question of choice, but it takes a long time. Love’s vacancies, the eye & cavity, track back to embraces where the spine bends & quietens like smoke in the earth. Your tongue, touching on song, darkens all songs. Your touch is almost a signature. .

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HAD @havehashad.com · 12/02/2025

First HAD call for 2025 incoming! Certified lover boy @jordanhamel.bsky.social is taking over the reins tomorrow (2/13, 1pm est) for a special Valentine's Day Eve submission call. He's looking for messages in a bottle, DM slides, sad songs for dirty lovers, and more. Details in image/alt text.

Valentine’s Eve HAD Call

Love is a dog from hell (or something), and just as St Valentine prepares his feast, it's time for YOU (yes, you) to prepare for a HAD submission call. To celebrate the day of hopeless romantics, gas station roses, waxy chocolate, tasteful vibrators, and ill-advised DM sliding, I, certified lover boy, Jordan Hamel, am handing out skulls. Gimme passion, yearning, sex, heartbreak, friendships, situationships, one-night stands, happy marriages, unhappy marriages, divorces, and everything in between. Will you make HAD the happiest lit journal in all the world? Will I choo-choo-choose you? There’s one way to find out. Send me your best stuff and make your Valentines/Palentines/Galentines/Panama Canalentines one to remember.

Max word count: 600. One piece per submission unless it's poems or micros then two is fine. Send three and I’ll break your heart.

Subs (and doms) capped at 150.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Simply and eternally one of the greatest lyric poems ever created.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Giddy to have a bitter little ditty in the latest issue of the New Delta Review 🕯️ 🔥 🌬️ ndrmag.org

POEM TO BE READ IN A BACKLESS HALTERNECK DRESS WITH A LINGERING ODOR OF BURNT HAIR

Rebecca Hawkes

Idiot!!!!! That is not your wife (the moon) it’s a plastic bag
stuck in a tree. It’s a biblically accurate pickup truck
overtaking at impossible speed. Gun to your head

how many kinds of cloud could you name right now?
A hawk banqueting on roadkill flares its wings
over the possum carcass, not meaning to flee

but to defend its catch from the oncoming headlights.
It’s the third time at this bar tonight I’ve held my hair
against the candle at our table til it catches light. As I blow

dark that sizzling wisp, the flame goes with it. Dumb ghosts
drifting mutely from the wick. I keep saying I don’t even need
a face. Let the hard robot of your body hate what it hates.

"Immortality" sounds lousy to me. What doesn’t kill you
presumably makes you wish it would. Today to be healthy I ate
a purple wildberry fresh from the vine, assuming it would be a grape.

It wasn’t that. I spat for my life. Bitter biter better go down
swallowing. Gargle all the moonshine. Somebody is always
trying to lead me to water. I’m just here for the free drinks.

Volume 15.1, winter 25 Rebecca Hawkes

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 28/01/2025

So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“I think ‘desire’ is the wrong word and ‘love’ too plain, ‘devotion’ too sacred. My whole life, I think, I will use for describing you.” —Emily Jungmin Yoon “Find Me As The Creature I Am”

Evolution
I look for uncomplicated peace in ocean and sand, afraid of the kind of candor you draw from me, my cowardly deep-sea regime.
With easy honesty I make utterances ugly and necessary to my being, a kind of nakedness I never attempted in the privacy of myself.
Looking at your back darkened by the sun faithfully pouring into the water in front of us,
I think desire is the wrong word and love too plain, devotion too sacred.
My whole life, I think, I will use for describing you.
What do I know outside of words, which despite their history and combinations, are too few and short for this life.
I don't know if I want heaven, but I know I want to be
where you go-
in sand, water, every possible animal form.

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Alexander Verbeek @alexverbeek.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

FLOATING CROWNS Ancient rata trees create a fascinating mosaic of gaps between their canopies. Found only on remote Enderby Island, this rare crown shyness helps trees avoid damage in winds. 📹 michaelgeorge

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Sandles @auldnme.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ll see your unamed lake, and raise you one with a name. Lake Matheson, New Zealand.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

im AHAB, Assigned Hater at Birth, and I'm gonna make that whale pay

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's good to be drawing again! Missing my home-birds so here's a kōtare and a tūī 🕊️🔥🌀

A monochrome illustration of a kōtare and a tūī in flight against a backdrop of dark swirls and white flames, with parrot tulips peeking over the edges of the frame

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