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Rachelle Newbold

@newbold.bsky.social

Library marketer. Big time reader. California obsessed. Kindness advocate. Rebuilding my feed one great writer at a time ✨ www.rachellenewbold.com

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Rachelle Newbold @newbold.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Today’s poem, dipped from the library stacks, is by Ursula K. Le Guin in her book So Far So Good. I hope this influences my dreams … 🌙

The People
Some people have begun to come into my dreams from a long way away,
traveling over the mountain passes
that nobody living knows.
Old people who smell like fog
and the soft bark of redwoods.
They talk together softly.
They know more than I know.
I think they come from home.

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Rachelle Newbold @newbold.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today’s poem is by Natasha Rao, from her book, Latitude. Discovered in the library this afternoon. What a perk to be able to browse for gems almost whenever I feel like it!

Fullness and Hunger
My father orders the crab croquet
and I am quick to correct
croquette for the white waiter
pouring water coquettishly.
Last summer in England I watched
my brother grip a mallet on the
manicured lawn of his new life
while my parents learned the rules
to this ballet, beaming, and I sipped
gin. My father's face when he
hit the ball through the wicket.
My father's face now. The slipped
grin. My father's face in my face.
I can be wicked, I begin to say, but
it sounds like crickets, it sounds
like nothing at all, though both
our mouths are moving.

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Rachelle Newbold @newbold.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This morning at the library where I work I pulled a book at random from the poetry section and flipped it open to this by Dana Levin:

2016: A BIOGRAPHY
I had wanted to think that America
was incidental, that I could go on with the same lyric project, to lament the soul
in exile, having to endure the jail
of the body, what was
a president
to me.

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