iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

How do you get the jobs where you write seven emails a day and fire people every so often and tell other people to do things and make one hundred thousand dollars a year?

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm so glad it pulled you from point a to point b — just reposted the poem with a few edits.

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Reposted by Isaac Pickell

Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We are all experiences — everything

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

At least it’s got one on the front for him!

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Oh! And I should mention! It's coming from @blacklawrence.bsky.social on August 18!

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

PRESALE TIME!! The best time to order small press books is during presale, when there are author incentives and awards buzz begins. So order one, or order ten for all your friends. I mean look at that cover — who wouldn't want this on a coffee table. blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-sm...

A book cover. Two black birds of unknown species ponder a flash of light rising from horizon. One bird says "The Smallest Mistake We Call Human." The cover is lovely and everyone you know will like it.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Or you can commit to the Hebrew and end up with "mavet mitzvah"... which really has a nice ring.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

that's no reason not to use it!

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Leslie Reese [from “Upside Down Tapestry Mosaic History” printed by Detroit’s Broadside Press, 1987] <<>> #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I ask:
where is our voice?
where are the ghosts wearing our lips and
our sound?
so that we can do something about this amnesia
calling:
all ghosts who spit with fury at our fear of being awakened from
this coma
calling all ghosts.
calling all ghosts …

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We really, really do need those chances. Thank you, Angela.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thank you, Audrey — I guess it's just one paw in front of the other.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Wrote a poem about the bags under my eyes.

Tapetum lucidum

My dark circles get so bad
you used to think
there was something wrong with me
other than
everything you already knew
was wrong with me.
Sleeplessness, smoking, salt,
and bittergrief years —

I made this mask honestly.
Raccoon eyes can turn
a yawning dark delicate
enough to hold, glowing
blue and silver, or red
as warning:
a mirror behind
the retina gives fugitive light

a second chance to be seen.
Scientists called it bright tapestry,
this iridescence hiding
in animal gaze. For bitter years —
we weren’t built nocturnal,
but we were designed
for adaptation. I see midnight
unfurling and forage on.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What are we but ciphers for our cities.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

That's a great distinction, between dwelling and dwelling. I've been to the area twice, once during crane season. It does feel like somewhere worth missing.

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