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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus

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Dad. Husband. Love Vonnegut, Ellison and Park Chan-wook.

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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#mpprompt #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social @anntigone.bsky.social
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#vss365 The creature washed ashore. It had cute tentacles, tiny rows of teeth and baby #hurricane clouds hovering over head. The natives brought it to the local fundi, who gave it a bone rattle. He agreed to raise it as his own, but they did not ask what price they would have to pay.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🙏🤗💜💫
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #shakespeareansonnet @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social @anntigone.bsky.social
Renovations

I stripped the paper from the walls today
And found the names I’d buried out of sight;
Each careful coat had kept the past at bay,
Until the cracks began to speak at night.

I took a hammer to the bolted door
And let the daylight settle on the grain;
The house had held its breath through every war,
Now even dust could learn to dance again.

I will not build a room without a seam,
Nor make a shrine of what I have outgrown;
Let crooked windows interrupt the dream
That I must turn my heart to polished stone.

Some things must fall before the walls can stand;
I draw the plans. The hammer’s in my hand.

~ cmj
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social @anntigone.bsky.social
Foreign Birds

The birds arrived with foreign songs.
We left them crumbs beside the gate.
They sang until the bread grew mold.
We thought they missed their home.

One learned my mother’s little cough.
One whistled through my father’s teeth.
I found them perched upon his spade.
We thought they missed their home.

Last night, a fledgling tapped the glass
and used my childhood name.

I let it in.
It knew which room was hers.

~ cmj
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#vss365
Like Bashania, the family stood so closely together that not even a breath could squeeze between them. Long strands of hair were living threads that tied each member to the other. They always acted in unison. No safe #harbor for random thoughts. Was it his imagination or did they just sway in that gentle breeze?
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#vss365 While sad flurries of sand kept vigil at dusk, the warm vibrato of my bassoon #lured the fennec out of hiding. I tossed it a few morsels. This outpost was virtually an island of stone surrounded by a vast sea of dust, and my lone friend had gobbled up the last of my supplies.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you, Kate. 🙏😀🤗💜 Much appreciated.
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Hedge Catechism Who goes out after dark? A girl with a lantern. Who follows her home? A fox with her mother’s voice. What does the fox ask? “May I come inside?” What does the girl answer? “Mother has a key.” Who turns it in the lock? Something with a tail.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you. 🙏😀
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A tough gig fer shure.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hydrogen thieves sucked the life out of our sun, leaving only a disco ball in its place. The mock sun, from the neighboring system visits from time to time. It leers at us, shivering under a #mountain of heated blankets, and refuses to share any of its own warmth. #vss365
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FIRE SALE One kitchen table, smoke-stained. Four chairs, three survivors. A box of photographs with no faces left. Everything must go, the sign says. As if the fire hadn’t seen to that. ~ cmj #mpprompt #writingcommunity #poetryprompt #freeverse
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She hopped from one fluffy #cloud to the next til she reached the veranda, where father slept under a blanket of sky, dreams bubbling out of his ears. A jester recited poetry, while juggling rabbits and the dying sun, weeping pearls, was chased by ill bred children. #vss365
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365
She was the flower, petals like a sunrise bursting through violent purple clouds. Underneath were the thorns pointing inwards. She tried to gift the world with beauty, but it was too painful, cutting her inside. She closed herself, hiding among the warmth of morning shadows. The #bequest of a long dead moon.
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inventory Of A Small Crime One tin of formula beneath her coat. One cashier who saw and scanned the bread. One bell above the door ringing as she fled. One hungry mouth at home. The register balanced. The world did not. #mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #minimalistcatalogpoem
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Robert Downey Jr. Says 'Maaaybee'
ALT: Robert Downey Jr. Says 'Maaaybee'
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How does it feel to be observed? Like being held down without a hand on me— then blamed for the bruises. ~ cmj #mpprompt #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🙏💙
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#vss365
"What is that sound?"

"It's mewling?"

"Somebody feed it!"

Shay throws an unopened box of kibble on the floor, but it approaches, and they cluster protectively.

"It's rubbing itself on me and making soft demon noises!"

It gets bored and saunters into the kitchen. A short #reprieve that allows them to escape out an open window.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙏💖
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you, Jay. 🙏😀
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good 🍲
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, Anna, use them any way you want to. And thank you! 🙏😀
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#vss365
Looking for answers, I met a holy man on the road, and gave him my number, but he hasn't called. The goldfish I bought to calm my nerves just looks lonely. I was rebirthed from the Basin Sen Jak Mud Baths. Cleansed, #purified and mortified. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are no depths to plumb. Everyone is a lost as I am.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
she is the generosity of fingertips the dancer sparked by the heat of hidden desire her gyrating hips whispering to married men her naked glances lascivious a dessert of sensual delights her touch liquid fire even a lonely moon would #renounce the sky to burn #vss365
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Theatre of Memories Your empty chair still gets the best light. I face it. #mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #lune @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social
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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #freeversepoem @nathanbrazil.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @jackdaniels75.bsky.social @museumlara1.bsky.social @suzydobie.bsky.social
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂No! Just no!
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly!
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂It's good to see you stretch out to something new.
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🙏🤗
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes. Could be!
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It didn’t take much for Rory to #reckon the inherent value of betraying someone to death for the sake of a few skill points, and taking the practically worthless item offered in their stead. Morally, he couldn’t do it. Yes, it was just a game, but he just couldn’t. He took the item instead. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dylan supervised, though he knew he didn’t have to, Able #reckon the orbital trajectory to the next planet and their next assignment. The young navigator made the calculations without computer aid and got it better than the check Dylan made. That was some skill the lad had. Impressive. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ilyna didn’t need to wait and #reckon the distance between the rooftops, she’d already cased both houses days before, watching the movements of the people within, noting the weaknesses, the less obvious entrypoints. She was a small woman, able to slither through practically any hole or gap. #vss365
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 Ledgerble reckon the pulse against cold slate no interest paid, no penalty for years overdrawn, just the raw sum owing after you've gone #reckon #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I try to keep my balance in a tilted world. Watching how the broader picture unfurls. I used to think that growth always made you feel content. Now I'm tracing old choices and directions I went. I #reckon it's not the finish, but the place I leave behind. #vss365
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 #poetry dark #reckon
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😱🤢Finger skin?!
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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 If time was endless, was his punishment ever thus? Bartem wished he could debate this with the witch who’d cursed him to this realm. Though he #reckoned she was long dead. He mumbled and griped as he bent among the dead hands and plucked enough fingerskins for his supper....
#vss365 If time was endless, was his punishment ever thus? Bartem wished he could debate this with the witch who’d cursed him to this realm. Though he #reckoned she was long dead. 

He mumbled and griped as he bent among the dead hands and plucked enough fingerskins for his supper. He’d tried avoiding eating the corpse flowers, but there was nothing else to eat around here, and though he did not die due to starvation, he’d learned that suffering an empty stomach was worse.

He tried to take pleasure in the decomposition of the flesh moon beneath the horizon, as it puddled beneath the skull moon. For another day in purgatory was done.
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TaintedTrailer @taintedtrailer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I #RECKON THERE'S NOWT! Our future is careless, Silent and breathless, An infinite darkness. A hunger to question This heavy depression, Such vulgar possessions. A manic awareness, Pleading unfairness, Your cynical squareness (Unlimited weirdness). #vss365
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
marveling at the sky as it climbs clouds become gilded for years I sought your beams the comfort of warming skin the spectacle of glinting mesmerizing reflections the wonder of your light split into colors but now it burns my skin leathered cells crumpling sun. will you face a reckoning? #vss365
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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was in good shape all healthy and well a perfect specimen of a human being I climbed mountains never stopping for breath I really was a picture of health a hundred metres in less than eight seconds I will live to two hundred my so doctor reckons #vss365 #Reckon
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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- indiscreet star(ing) at the end of the bar – lidded, liquid eyes music puls(ing) – a visceral heartbeat, new circadian whiskey shudders around its ice cube her finger motions come hither – i mouth, me? take my glass and saunter toward my reckon(ing). - #vss365 #poetry
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What? Where did Soph, go!?
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Sawph 🔪 @flannelqueen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"What d'ya #reckon? Shall we give us a go?" My eyes are glassy. "You've no idea how long I've been waiting for you to ask." You slip your hand in mine. This is when forever starts #vss365 (I know, not poetry, just trying something different)
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Daniel Cummings - work hiatus @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂
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Mo Hayes 📚📖👩🏼‍💻 @mohayeswriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘You’re pretty useless.’ ‘What did I do now?’ ‘You’re a writer. I asked you to help me with posts to sell our stuff and these are all, like, essays.’ ‘Maybe you should be more specific.’ ‘Can you give me a short sentence that will sell this old, but working, calculator?’ ‘I #reckon.’ #vss365
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
all the whys and the wherefores beckoning a reckoning what might we gain what might we lose how do we choose to take the chance on romance the harbor? or the water? dive into the deep? take the leap? hmmm… because it’s him I #reckon I’ll swim #vss365
a woman in a red bathing suit top and skirt leaning back on her arm, sitting on a rock in the ocean looking out on the water
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