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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Three sapphics for bees in winter (3) Even if you’re not into gardening, you can Make your garden bee-friendly, leaving piles of Leaves and branches, carefully shunning any Plant litter raking. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Three sapphics for bees in winter (1) Bees need nectar. Plant winter bloomers, Snowdrops, Hellebores, and aconites. Choose a sunny Spot to plant them, and it will coax them into Opening fully. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Three sapphics for bees in winter (2) Care for wayward queen bumblebees in winter: Relocate her carefully to a flower; Offer her a mixture of sweetened water Placed in the sunshine. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Be: let it, let it, let it, let it, there must an answer, let it — The Beatles factorised

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Be: to, or not to? — Shakespeare shortened

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Sapphic juxtaposing views on juxtaposition from Calvert Watkins (How to Kill a Dragon) and Bashō (Skeleton in the Fields) For some time, I’ve come to believe that surface formula is not very far from deeper theme. The hills of Yoshino are Mount Lu, when seen from this standpoint. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

…reading an Observer article reporting on the trial of Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, who together sawed down the historic Sycamore Gap tree, through the ‘Alpera bee stencil’ raged by clippings and video now lit para hum driver believer than thou we talked dom sheriff’s Sycamore #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Mesostic on a police interview with Daniel Graham, who sawed down a sycamore tree with Adam Carruthers righT rigHt copE saYing fuCk All Morning thE Tomorrow wHy rEcall You nightS Ago What typE useD #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Sapphic on Beekeepers, for Bee Wilson, author of The Hive First there is the beekeeper scholar-student. Then there is the showman, parading courage. Finally, the sage, who submits to nature, finding life’s honey. #poetry #beekeeping

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Sapphic: Rilke explains his purpose in writing the Duino Elegies in a letter to his Polish translator Bees of the invisible wildly gath’ring honey of the visible our task is to imprint deeply, painfully, passionately all this we ruined #poetry #Rilke

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Springtime concrete poem (… on USAID, February 2025) the ca tki n s were still ha ng in g from the br an ch e s when the foresters lopped off the boughs #usaid #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sapphic for Angela Merkel, Davos, 2013 Population, less than a tenth the global; GDP, approximately a quarter; Social welfare spending, a half or greater: Liberal Europe. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stanza on section 188 of the UK Housing Act 1996 requiring Local Authorities to relieve homelessness Be, whoever has no house now will, if they’re unusually at risk. The honka is Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Autumn Day’ (tr. M. Hamburger), and canvases by Anselm Kiefer titled ‘Wer jetzt kein Haus hat’

Link to recent canvas from Anselm Kiefer https://ropac.net/artists/30-jules-de-balincourt/works/13720-anselm-kiefer-wer-jetzt-kein-haus-hat-baut-sich-keines-2021/

Link to recent canvas from Anselm Kiefer
https://ropac.net/artists/30-jules-de-balincourt/works/13721-anselm-kiefer-wer-jetzt-kein-haus-hat-baut-sich-keines-2021/

Link to recent canvas from Anselm Kiefer
https://ropac.net/artists/30-jules-de-balincourt/works/13610-anselm-kiefer-wer-jetzt-kein-haus-hat-baut-sich-keines-2021/

Link to recent canvas from Anselm Kiefer
https://ropac.net/artists/30-jules-de-balincourt/works/13719-anselm-kiefer-wer-jetzt-kein-haus-hat-baut-sich-keines-2021/

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Sapphic: A Guessing Game Anakin and Padmé are naming all the unseen singing birds on the Naboo lakeshores. Padmé knows their songs, and their names, and folk names. He must just guess them. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

even the path I traveled in my dreams has now vanished blue slides at rest under a powdering of snow in my village The honka is Shinkokinshū 673 by Fujiwara no Ariie (transl. Laurel Rasplica Rodd) #poetry

photo over a garden fence and evergreen foliage of a blue slide under a powdering of snow in my village

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Sapphic on the construction of the second Temple of Apollo at Delphi Bring your wings, 0 birds; and you bees your beeswax. Sweep away the branches of bay from Tempe. Raise Apollo’s sanctuary, extend it up, from the chthonic. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

truth will be attained by him only when he takes two different objects, states the connexion between them … and encloses them in the necessary links of a well-wrought style Time Regained - Proust

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

… reframing Dryden’s Virgil in a sapphic Watch! The more he varies his forms, restrain him more with stricter care, until tiring, lastly turns to his true shape again. Ask then, firmly, Where the bees come from. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

when I see the blue slide at rest through the barren trees it is clear to me that autumn has come and taken control of my heart The honka is the anonymous Kokinshū 184 (transl.Laurel Rasplica Rodd in Shinkokinshū 592)

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Dysraphic sapphic for Viktor Orbán Pindar’s hymns of praise, like a bee, flit here, there. Haiku too, though brief, have their sharp disjunctions. Who would blame the bison’s precarity on thirsting for freedom? #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

🍎🌿 Just dropped a fresh essay on J.H. Prynne's Orchard 🍊🍒 — explore the juicy metaphors, ripe language, and fruit-laden imagery 🍇🍏 Dive into the lush garden of poetic meaning! 🍉🍑 #Poetry justknecht.medium.com/beginning-an...

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Beginning an analysis of J.H. Prynne’s “Orchard” (2020)

32 pages. Twenty-five poems, titled after various edible fruits. Litho printed text, with risographed wrappers printed by Earthbound Press…

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

… on bees tending to visit flowers of only one type during a foraging trip Apis mellifera is strongly constant In its choice of flower, but when and whether Flower constancy has a profit motive Is in contention. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

The Real Glass Bead Game - an update on the latest developments in this emerging new genre for the creative development of ideas justknecht.medium.com/the-real-gla...

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The Real Glass Bead Game

An emerging new genre for the creative development of ideas

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

… to puff the recently completed reworking of an essay which has been rankling for a while pointing at the moon seeking what the ancients sought but what’s there to see new material, old concepts linking film and poetry #poetry #waka justknecht.medium.com/the-loom-of-...

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The Loom of Japanese Linked Poetry and Film Editing

Do not seek the traces of the ancients, seek what they sought. Kūkai (774 – 835)

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

FOR YASMINE, WINNER OF SILVER IN JAVELIN Greater fools may value the gold. So let them. Best is silver, useful beyond its value. Godless girl, your javelin flies like glory written on blue sky. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

… Richard Hunter reading Sarah Nooter’s reading of Sappho fr. 31 as preserved by Longinus Layered sediments, across generations, languages and cultures, of reading practice are themselves the mark of a lasting search for something that’s lasting. #poetry #sapphic @thetls.bsky.social

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

… on how bees experience light differently Trichromatic vision, but no red: rather ultraviolet light, where a flower’s petal iridesces, changing with viewpoint, through those thousands of lenses. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Cezanne turns a bottle into a cylinder but I ... make a bottle — a particular bottle — out of a cylinder. — Juan Gris

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

… on the discovery of the ‘queen bee’ by Luis Mendez de Torres (1586) and its denial by others ‘King bee’ and the workers all proven female, some refused to recognise that in nature females would be leading and central, with the male at the bottom. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

… on the flight of bees being supposedly impossible Bees don’t care what humans pronounced as hopeless. Lift, drag, weight and thrust are all finely balanced in an airplane. Bees fly in different fashion: spiralling cyclones. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

… reading ‘Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers’ by Michele J. Leggott Read correctly, so much connects in total multi-moded sense, if you listen hard and stay alert to crossovers, learn the new, if difficult, language. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

2.7 Questions about materials, time and space needed a blaze This is no madman's vision sun doesn't shine more certainly than truth does #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

…reading TV Choice for Monday 5th February through the ‘Alpera bee stencil’ shook sunshine slaying much is true in the backyard thrones town inca restorers escapes with treasures horses world cup juan carlos an animal downfall zoo centre united arab emirates live open coverage of day event #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

… reading Peake’s Commentary on Acts 19 through the ‘bee stencil’ inscript owed the sky may allude to have clerk fame Paul’s been two vindicated three stirred up miss hence the costal gif the temple through goddess thing of Artemis Mother from solo Jesus as meaning later Greek two may have #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

… reading J.H.Prynne’s Asserted Flourish Meant through said stencil breathe passing by by and by buoyed morn waist plucked implied amble when wide the align of cot up swarm true to see what you find

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

… reading Steve McCaffery’s Black Debt through a stencil of a 7th millenium BC cave painting from eastern Spain showing a woman carrying a jug and climbing a tree to collect wild honey, surrounded by flying bees far foliage stress fan the held stars six ton ether the coin erasing the dance #poetry

… reading Steve McCaffery’s Black Debt through a stencil of a 7th millenium BC cave painting from eastern Spain showing a woman carrying a jug, climbing a tree to collect wild honey, surrounded by flying bees

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

‘Works of mind exist only when effected.’ So said Valéry. Like a poem being read aloud, a game being played, a purpose lived through a life’s work. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

… from Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity, to the rhythm Gary Kemp’s ‘Gold’ A names a particular pain. B is its state in the brain. It’s more than possible B doesn’t need A there to be. #Poetry #Contrafactum

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

… morning thoughts on harmony and conflict #Poetry #Contrafactum

$… morning thoughts on harmony and conflict woke up at his home Superparticular and integer fractions only get you so far shirtless and waving Nature is clearly not a stranger to working with irrational numbers play and sing Cubic diagonal and ratio of width to girth of any circle picking avocados Twelve equal scale steps in the octave will let you make your choice of keynote decided to share Using this temper there is no compromising as to where the tune moves symbols of the sun Sharing lots evenly will always be better for avoiding conflict over the noise$ Music score showing the rhythm of the first theme of Haydn’s ‘Le Matin’ Symphony

Music score showing the rhythm of the first theme of Haydn’s ‘Le Matin’ Symphony

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

… a second fragment from Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity, set to the tune of the chorus from Gold by Spandau Ballet Is Hesperus Phosphorus when Venus and Mercury each rise in the pre-dawn sky, and after sunset too, sometimes? #Poetry #Contrafactum

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

… a fragment from Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity, set to the tune of the chorus from Gold by Spandau Ballet Can tigers be reptiles? And might tigers have three legs in fact? Is it impossible? Or should we call them ‘fool’s tigers’? #Poetry #contrafactum

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

… reading W.B. Yeats’ The Poet and the Actress, on the radiant liberation which comes from perceiving a pattern in human experience Poets pass on age after age a language Used for new emotion, associations Growing richer every time we use them, Linking to legend. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

… on reading J.B. Yeats’s (W.B’s dad) contention that neither Dante nor Milton necessarily believed what he wrote Beauty is the end and the law of poetry. Themes may serve as perches within surroundings, Shew their soul’s emotion in concept’s presence, Freeing the poet. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The Harmony of the Quadrivium As a planet’s orbit will fix its circuit, Or the altar’s volume is once more doubled, Octaves split up equally into pitches: All are related. #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

… comparing proof sheets of a poem by W.B. Yeats where there is where may be silences ecstasy #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

The substitution of one symbol for another is likely to conceal their equivalence. —from The Identity of Yeats, by Richard Ellman

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

… listening to Prokofiev’s Waltz Suite (US premiere, 2 December 1958), after reading The Countess of Minneapolis (1976) by Barbara Guest Waltzes by Prokofiev, Countess? Prima! Travelling all day, for the first performance, On the Twin Star Rocket to Kansas City: What an adventure! #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Sugar’s sweetness, silent about plantations; Nightshade vegetables in kitchen gardens, Mum about colonial exchange; these verses — Only a word game? #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

I had to write a programme note for Beethoven’s Op.111 which addressed the gloomy questions in the first stanza, and wanted to try out hexameters, so I did both at the same time… #poetry

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JustKnecht @justknecht.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Vary not the connecting means but the things to be connected. — Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by John Cage, edited by Richard Kraft and Joe Biel, Siglio, 2015

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