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Steve McOrmond

@stevemcormond.bsky.social

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Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-tr…

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Old One Old One, Eglinton #photo #photography #streetphoto #streetphotography #Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Heart of Saturday Night #photo #photography #streetphotography #streetphoto #Toronto #GTA #photograph

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brand New Day #Toronto #photo #photography #photograph

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Street Abstract (20 Sept 2026) #Toronto #streetphotography #abstractphotography #photo #photograph #photography

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Graham Foust

Blackout Drinking

Please and please
unprecedented chemical —

be careful for me.

Eat
night bare

and sleep the day raw

and scratch
each freezing

hour elsewhere.

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Monolith #Toronto #photo #photograph #photography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Peeled #photo #photography #photograph

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daybreak #Toronto #GTA #photo #photograph #photography

Photograph: Daybreak, Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dawn (Looking Southeast) #Toronto #GTA #photo #photograph #photography #LakeOntario

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dawn, Toronto #photo #photography #photograph #Toronto #GTA

Photograph: Dawn, Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good morning, Toronto (the sky yesterday before dawn) #Toronto #GTA #photo #photography #photograph #sunrise

Photograph: Good morning, Toronto (the sky yesterday before dawn)

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pleased to share two new poems from my forthcoming #poetry collection The Shutdown Sequence with art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Thank you to @icefloepress.bsky.social for including my work in their Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle project: icefloepress.net/2026/09/14/t...

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Two Poems – Steve McOrmond

A Change is Proposed Juddered awake by flatbeds queuing in the dark and early to deliver loads of rebar and gyprock. Their idling rattles windows eleven storeys up, throws us and the pictures on th…

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Clouds at Dawn #Toronto #GTA #photo #photography #photograph

Clouds at Dawn , Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hi #photography #photo #photograph #streetphotography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bicycle, Yonge Street #Toronto #GTA #photo #photograph #photography

Photography of a Bicycle, Yonge Street, by Steve McOrmond

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Creaturely #streetphotography #photography #photograph #abstractphotography #photo #Toronto

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry. I've thought about this poem. 'Our Real Work', a lot since starting on Confluence with @julietgutch It reminds me of Paul Valéry : “Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil." : “A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”.

RIP Wendell Berry. I've thought about this poem. 'Our Real Work', a lot since starting on Confluence with @julietgutch It reminds me of Paul Valéry : “Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil." : “A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do/we have come to our real work,/and that when we no longer know which way to go/we have come to our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed./The impeded stream is the one that sings

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Self-Portrait #analogphotography #35mm #photo #blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography

Self-Portrait

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In my spare time I write pomes

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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.

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto #Toronto #GTA #photo #photography #photography

Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yonge Street in the Rain #Toronto #GTA #rain #photo #photography #photograph

Yonge Street in the Rain

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rain rain rain #Toronto #GTA #photo #photograph #photography

Photograph of pedestrian in the pouring rain, Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Self-Portrait #photo #photography #photograph #streetphotography

Self-Portrait in Window

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Door to Nowhere #Toronto #photo #photograph #photography #GTA

Photo: Door to Nowhere, Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Toronto Architecture #filmphotography #35mm #Toronto #GTA #photo #photograph #analogphotography #lomography

Toronto Architecture photograph

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I didn't own CDs until the late 80s, but the first one I listened to was on the night shift at Zellers when I was a teenager. Here's a poem about the experience as it appeared in @westendphoenix.bsky.social

SO FAR AWAY

Nights on the graveyard shift at Zellers

By Phillip Crymble

Each evening, with his tie uncinched, the manager would lock me in and make towards his Town & Country K-Car.
The punch clock in the stockroom was an Acroprint that sounded like an old pneumatic nail gun. A teenaged third-shift
menial in stonewashed jeans and high-top leather Reeboks, I'd sail around the shop floor on the fork rods of a pallet jack
the checkout lanes and grocery aisles as empty as a Universal backlot. At sun-up, all my jobs complete undone and stoned
on black hashish I'd crank the Dire Straits CD the sales staff always used for demonstration fly past bargain bins and end
caps like an outlaw on a handcar in a silent-era comedy. The drag-wind in my hockey hair. The rumble of the wheels beneath my feet.

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Street Light #photo #photograph #photography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Liminal #photo #photography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Through the glass darkly #photo #streetphotography #photography #GTA #Toronto

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yonge Street #Toronto #GTA #filmphotography #analogphotography #photo #photograph #35mm

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Parkade #Toronto #photo #photography #filmphotography #35mm #analogphotography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yonge Street #GTA #Toronto #photo #photography #photograph #streetphotography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Vertical City #photo #photography #photograph #blackandwhitephotography #Toronto #GTA

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mary Ruefle on The Odyssey.

Deconstruction
I think the sirens in the Odyssey sang the Odyssey, for there is nothing more seductive, more terrible, than the story of our own life, the one we do not want to hear and will do anything to listen to.

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Escape Room #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poem #poetry

"Escape Room," a poem by Steve McOrmond:

You were so busy looking
for a mirror, you walked
right past the door.

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Down the Alley #photography #photo #photograph #blackandwhitephotography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Call Me #photography #photo #photograph #blackandwhitephotography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Denim Alley #photo #photograph #photography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

After the Storm #photo #photograph #photography

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Head in the Clouds #photo #photography #photograph

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

happy #weirdpoemwednesday from this little citrus snippet by Clayton Eshleman 🍋

It is good to be on earth.
Two fresh slit lemon halves
draw my heart out of its hiding heart space

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"We: Current Exhibition" from Reckon (Brick Books, 2018). #smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry

"We: Current Exhibition," a poem by Steve McOrmond from Reckon (Brick Books, 2018).

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today's weather putting me in mind of this poem by David Berman

Community College in the Rain

Announcement: All pupils named Doug. Please come to the lounge on Concourse K.
Please join us for coffee and remarks.
Dougs: We cannot come. We are injured by golf cleats.
Announcement: Today we will discuss the energy in a wing and something about first basemen.
Ribs will be served in the cafeteria.
Pep Club: We will rally against golf cleats today. The rally will be held behind the gymnasium.
There is a Model T in the parking lot with its lights on.
Dougs: We are dying in the nurse's office.
When she passes before the window, she looks like a bride.
Karen (whispers): We are ranking the great shipwrecks.
Announcement: In the classroom filled with dishwater light,
Share your thoughts on public sculpture.
All: O Dougs, where are you?
Dougs: In the wild hotels of the sea.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Joshua Beckman

enough
enough
enough
enough

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As though we slept through the rapture. Empty streets soaked with drizzle. Pour the flat champagne down the sink, pop a couple of Advil. From "New Year's Day" @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Many thanks to the editors of Gulf Coast for including my poem "Turing Test" in their wonderful Winter/Spring 2026 issue. #poem #poetry

"Turing Test," a poem by Steve McOrmond

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

From The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books, 2010) #smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

A poem from the sequence The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books, 2010)

Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Alleys of Toronto #photo #photography #photograph #lomo #lomography

An alley in Toronto

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Henri Cole

Oil & Steel

My father lived in a dirty-dish mausoleum,
watching a portable black-and-white television,
reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
which he preferred to Modern Fiction.
One by one, his schnauzers died of liver disease,
except the one that guarded his corpse
found holding a tumbler of Bushmills.
"Dead is dead,” he would say, an antipreacher.
I took a plaid shirt from the bedroom closet
and some motor oil-my inheritance.
Once I saw him weep in a courtroom—
neglected, needing nursing-this man who never showed
me much affection but gave me a knack
for solitude, which has been mostly useful.