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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“What sometimes irritates in T.S. Eliot is that he almost always inserts quotations from poets of the past in his verses, while he completely omits quotations from poets of the future.” -Eugenio Montego

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

walked a circle around a green & leafy park, ate bananas & blueberries w/yogurt, got a helpful answer to a vexing question, bathed my bare feet in the sun, finished one Vigdis Hjorth book & started another

Will and Testament, and Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Arrow Breaking Apart" by Jason Shinder

While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth,

holding up traffic. Just now a cloud has pulled up
while I was talking to the Emptiness

of the Universe and my voice plugged into the waves

at the bottom of the ocean…

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the water to go on without its bed - Federico Garcia Lorca I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on - Anne Sexton The sea is full of water, you have to understand that - Erik Satie

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wasn’t it inspired by Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue?” I read that somewhere.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So last night it finally happened. The crackers and the cheese ran out at the same time.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

stay tender somehow old postcard-collage-collab with @dinalrelles.bsky.social

old postcard of dog in a spiky collar with collage of circles and Dina's "stay tender somehow" imperative

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today was the first day in months that offered a cool breeze. Temps just touched 80, then retreated. Here's a collage I made in spring with the flowers from Swann's Way -- (hopefully) to see out the summer heat.

collage using colored paper with the names of flowers included in Proust's "Swann's Way," inside the covers of an old hardback book.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

as someone who woke up at four in the morning and managed to sleep again after 5, thank you

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

late 80s! It was a decent job, though I think he threw in "The Way of All Flesh" so I wouldn't quit.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

yes, i went to grad school of education (NB) in the late 80s. Lived over on baldwin street

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

let's jump off that bridge when we come to it.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wow I was today years old when I found out this was a job

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m Sarah, an editor in Barcelona, married, 2 kids. My pick is Ray Charles’s version of “Till There Was You” in the verse that ends “sweet fragrant meadows of dawn & dew.” I love how on “and dew” his intonation goes slightly up as if he wants you to know it's really quite remarkable about the dew.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the time I tried to choreograph an extended family weekend for minimal friction and ended up making things worse than they would have been

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sent as a present from Annam — A red cockatoo. Coloured like the peach-tree blossom, Speaking with the speech of men. And they did to it what is always done To the learned and eloquent: They took a cage with stout bars And shut it up inside. Po Chu-i (772–846), transl. by Arthur Waley

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'd always hestitated to read it until I was well beyond college and I was surprised by so much of it -- the humor, that chapter on WHITE, Ahab & obession. A great book. You should check out Matt Kish's "Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page" when you're finished.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It was the first of hers I read (ages ago) and remains my favorite

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Kiki Smith @kikismith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Come Away from Her (after Lewis Carroll) www.moma.org/collection/works/89069

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

for #smallpoemsunday, "(a little voice...)" The confetti is punched mostly from a reproduction of one of Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower paintings. This is the 1st piece in "Hotel Almighty." Also here is García Lorca's "The Little Mute Boy," who is looking for his voice. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Collage erasure poem showing a dark buttoned man's jacket bursting with confetti. Text:

a little voice
was caught
in
a
Well

The Little Mute Boy (translated by WS Merwin)

The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.

I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger

In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.

(The captive voice, far away,
put on a cricket's clothes.)

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Penny Davenport www.instagram.com/pennydavenpo...

Ink and watercolour on paper, Penny Davenport

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I learned about it this year too! Fun stuff.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

in books we learn enough of despair

vintage b/w postcard of a ship with masts framed by a frill doily, with aphorism

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Luxury handbags filled with lists of men I wish I loved.” A poem by Morgan Parker.

REAL HOUSEWIFE CONSIDERS FEMINIST THEORY WHILE SKETCHING DESIGNS FOR HER HANDBAG LINE

Any woman knows
the math of luxury.
The handbag is a symbol:
my privilege
my man.
My man is plastic
money.
The purse is my uterus.
Who's holding who?
Luxury handbags will save us.
Luxury handbags
and leather mystique.
Luxury handbags filled
with lists of men
I wish I loved.
Tiny dogs piss on new trees.
Daughters go to college.
Suburbs are luxe and orange.
I join Twitter.
I break the plastic ceiling.
l am a privilege.
My pleasure
snakes at his feet.
I throw shade and sip tea.
My small plastic
mouth. My plastic neck.
I strip down to a woman.
What is a woman?
Women
are a problem with a name. Girl,
bye.
Power is money and my body
glistens.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

love this. is it from a collection?

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

why even read at that point

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

feet just keep getting uglier

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

for #smallpoemsunday, Gertrude Stein's "Apple" and a collaged page of an apple-a-day calendar @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece please.

A little piece please. Cane again to the presupposed and ready eucalyptus tree, count out sherry and ripe plates and little corners of a kind of ham. This is use.

apple variety Erzherzogin Sophie, from an apple-a-day calendar, collaged

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The steward's English wasn't good but he was a sport. He kept coming out w/sentences Eng., German & Spanish simultaneously, like "Nuestro arrival gate es A-dreizehn." As the beverages rolled in he said "Ladies and Gentlemen we regret to tell you that on this flight the red wine has been delivered."

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Even a landscape can make a gesture toward us.

old postcard with nine separate frames, collaged with aphorism.

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