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Edelweiss beside thronged footpaths waving their stars and stars through the blistery veil. I ask the mountains I ask the summer of Austria: Is it true that I am here? Then a single flower sees, flickers all through me.

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I saw Lowland Hum, David Wax Museum, and Lake Street Dive over the weekend, and it was glorious

The band The Golden Hours (which consists of Lowland Hum and David Wax Museum) on stage performing

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Oh man, or "Mary Did You Know" my goodness I hate so few things more than that song

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I think "God Bless the USA" might have to be my choice, but there are plenty of truly awful songs in the replies, definitely good for a laugh if you need it

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Every now and then I have to remind myself that the reason "I don't feel like I know what's going on" is that on evolution's time scale, our brains have barely even begun to adapt for anything beyond eating in caves and avoiding things with big teeth, but there is, uh, a lot more than that happening

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E. L. Chen *SLASHER SUMMER out now* @elainechen.com · 14/03/2026

1. Log into Bsky meaning to post something silly 2. See the latest news stories in my feed 3. Log off without posting anything because

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I just laughed out loud in Aldi

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is how you live a life

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

What a beautiful thing, that I saw this tonight, after having a similar (if longer) exchange with someone very close to me who has caused a great deal of pain in the last year There is always hope while we are able and willing to return to and welcome each other with kindness

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain. Du Fu, trans. Arthur Sze

Du Fu, trans. Arthur Sze, full poem text below

Spring View

The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain.
Spring is in the city, grasses and trees are thick.
Touched by the hard times, flowers shed tears.
Grieved by separations, birds are startled in their hearts.

The beacon fires burned for three consecutive months.
A letter from home would be worth ten thousand pieces of gold.
As I scratch my white head, the hairs become ewer: so scarce that I try in vain to fasten them with a pin.

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

and the old years blow back / like a wind / —Lucille Clifton

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Let's have more poems this year, hm?

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Two from Lowland Hum, obviously Make me steady like a melody Make me humble like a wheat field Make me soft as an open window Help me love what is unending Help me love what is unending Help me love what is (from Morning Meal) --- One cannot become Simple and true in one day (from Winter Grass)

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Apparently it's National Poetry Day in the UK, so here's a poem in progress. For context, this weaves in some phrases & words from the poems my grandpa wrote for his grandkids' births, and the title "Garden" is a play on his poem "Seed", which was written for his own children. Poem on, friends.

Garden

To have a child
is to be a child
is to take on gravity
from both ends,
downspirallingdown through time
mutually nurtered
across the silent reach

dawn, into each new morning, into
the patient quiver of a midday breeze,
dusk, yielding to the icy harmonies of night.

Grandparentsounds, bell melodies
from the deepshadow of memory

Enchanted by wounds
we do not yet comprehend
great, gaping days impel us
whispering, blossoming, becoming

We

keep a welcome witness
as roots extend in expectation
as seeds become garden—

put your hands with mine
into the warm rolled soil.

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In an autumn of personal sorrow, this poem is burrowing deeper into my heart than usual, which is saying something

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the last couple months, I've bought the collected poems of Czesław Miłosz, two by Denise Levertov, and one by Adrienne Rich, and I am seriously thinking about taking a break from social media until I finish them all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/08/2025

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is probably gonna sound nuts, but I have an idea for a 2P semi-cooperative physical adaptation/spinoff of... Balatro? So if that sounds like a thought experiment you'd like to partake in, hit me up 🎲✂️

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Update: I finally did give away my copy today Nothing quite like poetry so good you simply *must* physically put it in someone else's hands

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Confession: I did not have it in myself to read Larks that night, and it sat on my desk accusingly for two months, but I just read the whole collection in a single sitting, and I am without words I may have to give the book away, it's that good

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I swear I was going to make this joke in December

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Attention is the universe folding out of and back into itself, we are only the eyes

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Oh my gosh, I legitimately just snorted, that is *incredible*

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

How DO you always have such a wonderful poem for the moment, my goodness

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It never ceases to amaze me how kids, as ridiculous they can be, are able to just say The Real Thing like that

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'll admit I do not immediately know what that means, but that's just one reason I'm grateful to know and & interact with you: now I get to go look it up and learn things :)

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hey, we're birthday neighbors--I turn 43 tomorrow! As ever, I am glad for your voice. The happiest of days to you, friend!

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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is absolutely terrific and what I needed to see right now. More of this type of thing.

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Just saw Saint Motel at House of Blues Cleveland, because our 17yo is a fan, and it was legitimately a great show, definitely would recommend

Saint Motel on stage performing at House of Blues Cleveland

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is the thing I will never get over: literally everyone has had Trump pegged accurately *forever* He has only ever been a two-bit grifter, and explicitly so And yet, here we are

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