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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This morning, the one-at-a-time leaves are trying to be slower than each other. The all-at-once leaves have started to offer the hint of color.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The one-at-a-time leaves have started to fall. They spin, they sail, they knife, falling without even the slightest of wind. They, mostly, take their time, giving one last chance to notice their having been. Here comes another, a little faster, urgent, noticed just the same.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow's Bauder Lecture at Howard Community College (in Columbia, Md.) with graphic novelist Mat Johnson. 12:30 p.m. (Hybrid ) Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Center. More info and live stream link: howardcc.edu/bauderlecture 6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Center

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

change— no one says a thing everyone just watching —the leaves

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. The festival takes place in the Waverly neighborhood along Waverly Main Street (centering on 30th, 31st, and 32nd streets near Greenmount Avenue). For all you need to know, visit: baltimorebookfest.com

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone in the distance isn't letting their leaf blower shut up. It is blow-viating and just as annoying as that pun.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Turn the corner into September and a new season begins. For information on these and other upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org (Events are in and around Columbia, Maryland.)

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In a rare a moment of silence, a wren twitches eagerly back and forth on the rail, full to bursting with the energy of all it is not saying, so much to gossip about again today, its pause nearly over.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Imagine a bird, wings folded around itself, settled in somewhere high for the night and ready to dream, falling asleep with this revelation on its mind: I flew again today, my shadow so far away on the ground, racing along watching me watching it.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

all summer long these early autumn shadows growing into late sunlight

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How wonder-fully exhausting teaching is.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Now turmeric and ginger and cumin lend… and wherever we were comes swirling here.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

After a week of travel, this stove again: the aroma of warming olive oil, the crackle of chopped onions hitting the heat, slowing into sizzle. Not too long till the spices and even the air makes this place home again. Plates and forks and here and again tomorrow. Home again. Yes, let’s eat.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here we go again, in honor of our dear Ellen. The submission window for this year's Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize is now open. All you need to know and the entry form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Down from cleaning debris off the roof post storm, I can count the time spent up there in mosquito bites.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

At the feeder, the graceful hummingbird takes a moment -- perched, motion and movement quickstops -- to shit. And then it's back to itself, all its at-once-everywhere and the already elsewhere sound of it, only the unfindable trace left behind.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good book? Well, the beer got warm and there’s a condensation puddle under the glass to recon with. Humidity has to have dropped percentages.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That cloud just gave up being a cloud, or maybe the humidity got tired of hovering. What an unexpected burst.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Why are we so eager to use AI and so hesitant to use ourselves?

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

sunflowers — each and every petal a favorite photo album the plastic crackle of a next face wayward glance — that happenstance has a smell every one of us, ashdust of whatever forever is

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

dusk and that moment the last of a wood thrush shares the air with lightning bugs how is it we made wars out of this

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

recognizing a hummingbird recognizing me

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How I pity the after-the-rain spiders, their just perfect webs in need of rebuild once my face walks through them on a trail.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Never before, at least five wood thrush and dusk and everything shifting out of one day, and the wood thrush explaining it all. Virtuoso.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is also a wood thrush doing its thing to make Monday morning sound soooo good.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A hummingbird just came and sat for a while on the deck wire, a kindly reminder to check and refill the feeder as the raccoon most likely emptied it again last night. That dude is always about dessert.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Why is a chipmunk so cute and a mouse so, um, mouse? They are basically the same thing, right?

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I open the front door to put a spider back outside and incinerate.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Either a particular catbird is absolutely everywhere, or this neighborhood is saturated with catbirds at the moment. #meow

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Maryland, my Maryland.... This is 7 p.m. and not yet mid June.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The weather goes Southern Gothic. Stabbed or shot, you'd sweat to death before you bled out. Either way, the humidity would weigh your eyelids down. Sleep on, dream on. Wherever you have made it, the weather will be nicer, the air worth the effort of breathing.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I tend to roll my eyes at folks that say they are giving it 110%, just not a possibility the way percents work. But dammit, if Maryland's humidity ain't giving it 120% this morning. And we aren't even slightly into summer, yet.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Listening to the recycling truck die as it moves through the neighborhood. It's like an ice cream truck through these geographies, but with the suffering of all Hell in its voice.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sign of another day, the voice of a chain saw. Woody suburbia looks for a bit more of the sky.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of those mornings where the dogs of the neighborhood measure out the space of things in barks. The lot of them. For a moment, it’s as everywhere as the sunshine and just as happy.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Between the wind and me, all the silence of a blue sky.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Man, the trees have been generous. We've had enough pollen over the last week or so to call a snow day. Every morning I sweep clouds of it off this desk.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Praise the spider for dropping his shadow onto the page of the book >>warning-warning<< as it was determinedly dropping toward the head above that very book. Apparently, I'm Spiders' Man, the daily attention I seem to be getting at this outdoor desk of mine, no clue what the fancy might be.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

How a spider likes to be on the edge of things... like the rim of my coffee cup! Watching this one and thinking about how it has two ways of understanding space: its legs and then this ability to fly with the thread. Those are two completely different ways of understanding landscape.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The way a darkening day becomes frog song.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

While I am not as self-centered as to think that ALL the spiders that fall from the sky land on me, it is surprising how many that do. I must conclude that there are a lot of spiders falling from the sky. Everywhere. All the time. Keep that mouth closed when you look up.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A spider drops in on me. It is hardly bigger than the tip of a pen, the strand it flew in on such a long line. It's ink has to be up. Let's just watch it and see where it goes now it has landed in the new world of here. See what I mean? Where is my discipline?

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The lights-go-out moment of a quickly passing cloud. Still haven't reached for a notebook.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If I don't get out a notebook soon and make a list of things I need to get done, I'll lose the day to watching clouds and listening to the wind shake out leaves. Oh, the discipline required to work at table outside.

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