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Zoe Korte (they/them)

@mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social
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queer mad poet educator in stl 🌾

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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
not to brag, but y'all are gonna wanna read this one 😏😏
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Irk Irwell @irk-irwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#poem #writingcommunity #smallpoemsunday #poetry
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@ezhang77.bsky.social from A City Bursts Inside Me #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Density
You walk your home inside your fist. At night, the rain sleeps twice as fast. In your coat pocket are a key and a decoy. It is because of the density, repeating and alone.
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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The ur question, always doubt.” The Poetry by Paula Meehan #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry #Ireland
The Poetry
Was it beaten into me or out 
of me? The ur question, always doubt.

Never certainty, never sure the song 
is on the right track. I've got it wrong

só often, failure is a true friend

of my long night's journey into day.
My gibbering ghosts must have their say:

Mother, Teacher, Lost Child, will not cease until dawn breaks through in brutal peace.

Paula Meehan from her pamphlet, “Ten Poems from Ireland,” Candlewick Press, 2016.
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
haven't contributed in a little while, so here's one from "read a little poetry" for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i was feeling lazy and unmotivated but then i remembered all the times i made my middle school bullies cry and it cheered me up and y'know what i should have been meaner 🥰🥰
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
of course the first time i have a woman doctor is the first time they believe me that my vision changing causes chronic migraines
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Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We need sharp incisors to gnaw through the meat of this mess, unflinching.” Love this deeply felt gem of memoir and manifesto by @erinvachon.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My deepest hope for the increasing likelihood that, like, 4 guys are going to own the entire entertainment industry is that we're going to get an avalanche of incredible indie work in every medium that finally buries the safe, four quadrant approach everyone has been following for too long.
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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HAD @havehashad.com · 21/09/2026
a little word and stanza and poem magic today from @reverendpear.bsky.social ! "when I am dead, I hope to be hopeful and when I am reincarnated, I hope to be well-rested I hope to be well when I am reincarnated rested, hopeful, and dead" www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...
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When I Am by Jonathan Freeman
when I am dead, I hope to be hopeful and when I am reincarnated, I hope to be well-rested I hope to be well when I am reincarnated rested, hopeful, and dead I hope well when I am and when I hope to…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm gonna need to see more juxtaposition of roadkill and raspberry sherbet in poems. That was gnarly.
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just saw a queer indigenous guy I met in Peru post about how it's "cognitive dissonance" for queer people to support Palestine..... my guy, you are literally indigenous, how is supporting Israel not cognitive dissonance?? Anyway #freepalestine
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
kids are kids, even if they go to school in a castle to learn french and have to recite "st. rose philippine duchesne, pray for us" every morning
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the ava duvernay limited edition flavor of ben & jerry's has been the highlight of my week
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my mom pointed out this is my equivalent of mystery science theater 🫠🫠 touché mother
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
how are YOU spending your evening? i made myself a mocktail to watch dan and phil watch twilight #fridaynightamirightbrother
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
got myself locked in a dead end hallway right before i was supposed to lead storytime 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ no wonder the kids didn't hear me knocking and let me in, the door says "EMERGENCY EXIT"
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
why have actual coping skills when you could give your favorite character chronic migraines?? 🥰🥰
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it's my mf birthday and there is a bottle of pinot noir and a new graphic novel with my name on it (not literally, one of them says Josh and the other one says @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social on it) 🍾🍷🎉
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
having a conscience is PISSING ME OFF
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
new free daily puzzle website found!! 🧩🗞 THE LITTLE DAILY · ISSUE 031 01 ✓ 02 ✓ 03 ✓ 04 ✓ 05 ✓ 5/5 — FIRST PAPER 🔥 A tiny newspaper with absolutely no news. Can you finish today's paper? thelittledaily.lovable.app
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The Little Daily — Five Little Games for Your Morning
A tiny newspaper with absolutely no news. Play five quick puzzles every day.
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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
All experience is a lost hieroglyphic
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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 06/09/2026
Emily Dickinson 🦗 #poetry #smallpoemsunday
Title: The earth has many keys

The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.

But witness for her land,
And witness for her sea,
The cricket is her utmost
Of elegy to me.
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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 06/09/2026
Frank O’Hara #poetry #smallpoemsunday
A Raspberry Sweater
by Frank O'Hara
to George Montgomery

It is next to my flesh,
that's why. I do what I want.
And in the pale New Hampshire
twilight a black bug sits in the blue,
strumming its legs together. Mournful
glass, and daisies closing. Hay
swells in the nostrils. We shall go
to the motorcycle races in Laconia
and come back all calm and warm.
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Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#smallpoemsunday pointillism theradiounitestheorchestrahethoughthiseyebeingconductedbyallthedifferentsounds
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Here for #smallpoemsunday And thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !😀 Wendell Berry-"The Loved Ones"
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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wendell Berry #smallpoemsunday
Even in Darkness 

Even in darkness, love
shows the circumference 
of the world, lightning
quivering on horizons
in the summer night.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
C.T. Salazar for #smallpoemsunday @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
FOR THE CATTLE-TRAMPLED FLOWERS IN THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, EDITED OUT


my heart
is a catfish 
pond where
my father
the fisherman
sleeps
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carthian.bsky.social @carthian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#poetry #smallpoemsunday
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Vasiliki Katsarou @solitudehill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#smallpoemsunday from my first book Memento Tsunami (Princeton: Ragged Sky Press) 🙏 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #MinaLoy
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I told myself I wasn't going to do any submissions or workshops this month to let myself breathe. It is day 4. I have sent in 1 submission, signed up for 2 workshops, and received 3 rejections (from previous months). #cantstopwontstop
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luke 🐾 @earthen-were.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
fighting the horrors by sketching lesbian bear moms (drafting up ideas for a big woodburn) 🏳️‍🌈
black and white rough digital sketch of two female brown bears cuddling while four cubs nurse
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 03/09/2026
A haiku may read like a spontaneous record of a fleeting sensation. But such crystalline brevity takes heavy work. We can witness these contradictions and more in the poetic travelogues of Matsuo Bashō. thebaffler.com/latest/long-...
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Long Life’s Journey | Robert Rubsam
Matsuo Bashō’s “The Narrow Road of Oku” is a work of poetic and philosophical power undimmed by the more than three centuries since its composition.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 03/09/2026
let me be frank when I say that I am as shocked as all of you are
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Lauren Eggert-Crowe @laureneggertcrowe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Vaccinate yourself and your kids!
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The more I learn about this man, the more he reminds me of everyone I'm related to, for better or for worse. What a guy. Looking forward to reading more of his work.
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can we stop using "rest in power" for white people, especially CIA apologists? #gloriasteinem
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I struggle so much with poetry revision but I forgot how satisfying it feels to apply really precise feedback and sense the poem tightening up and becoming a more coherent incarnation of itself 😭😭
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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
in case anyone is wondering how the brain of an ex-catholic queer with adhd works, i am having trouble falling asleep because my brain has made a mashup of the "holy is his name" hymn and charli xcx's "party 4 u"
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from Hotel Almighty. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
erasure poem using yellow colored pencil, with collage elements of a Chinese map, a pine twig, a building and an upside-down astronaut 

text:
for a long time
I think about
isolated things like
neighbors
like a small
house
and the wind
somewhere
checking
how many people could there be
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a new poem for #smallpoemsunday written 21 minutes ago while on a rainy walk cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Sunday Scaries


A can
opener

in the
middle

of a
bike trail.

How long
will it

continue
to rain?
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Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#smallpoemsunday #poetry #poem #poems #poetry #poet #poets #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Michelle DiSarno @michelledisarno.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
August afternoon hues my heart with green swollen light #Stunday #haiku #blueskyartshow #august #smallpoemsaturday #smallpoemsunday #haikufeels #micropoetry
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Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#smallpoemsunday #poetry #poem @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Jim Moore
Almost sixty:
from now on
even begonias are amazing.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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