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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 9h
cont. ... Do this & poems will crawl back up to earth like the first fish with feet one spine at a time until you’re not only the first land animal or the first mammal, the first moon observed, but the first words uttered to first swoon at sky
A lightening struck pine in early autumn's deLight, on top of a real place; Mount Sentinel in Missoula Montana. September 2026.

Poem by jessica rowshandel (they/them) a queer, Black-Indigenous (Boricua/ Puerto Rican) and Persian writer, visual artist, and musician.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 9h
cont. ... Rewind & rewrite the ocean, pause the tape everywhere that got fucked by these people in charge. Shout back “get fucked!” until the ocean shudders as if the devil scraped a tooth on its back.
A tree in October light in a real place; Missoula, Montana. October 2026
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 9h
yes
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 10h
. from the poem The First Land Animal by J. Rowshandel Whatever you do, don’t smile at the people in charge. Don’t make eye contact with their empty hallways. Take the stairs on the left, they go to the bottom of the ocean. #poem #RicohGR4 tinyurl.com/4htjf2y4
A tree in October light in Missoula, Montana ... a real place. October 2026
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 11h
yes ... FAILED
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 11h
There are just a few things I’d prefer he not unlearn. That “stop” is a complete sentence. That silence isn’t permission. That friendship isn’t immunity. That being one of the good guys, on occasion, requires doing something. And that everyone else doing nothing does not make doing nothing right.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 11h
... you die without knowing
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 16h
. SILENCE Is Not An Option ACT NOW Ink on Paper #Letterpress #WoodType #ActNow #Printmaking #toMake #ByHand
Letterpress print using 19th cent. wood type
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have always liked Emily Carr.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OIKOS ... =ECO ... =Ecology AND Economics ..... if it is economic it is ecological ..... if it is ecological it is economic
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
excellent reporting and an important read
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I remember being told in school years years back that when the RR bed through SW MN was laid it was put on the flat earth directly without any buildup at all.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
. the heart beats another real place my body in the Body in that Body of the Beloved #Missoula #aRealPlace #RicohGR4 #MountSentinel
Backside of Mount Sentinel
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
. such deLight my body the body in the Body
On the upper slopes of Mount Sentinel in Missoula Montana, a real place ... the lightening struck pines
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just re-watched the film MISSING.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
. the world; YA) infinitely diverse always changing interwoven dependent and where do I cease too #Missoula #aRealPlace #MountSentinel #RicohGR4 #toMake
Back side of Mount Sentinel, lightening struck old growth .... Missoula MT  September 2026.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
... it was doomed from the start; no self-help book would have helped.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
. conceptual street-art work ... I was careful to bike properly around fearful the lurking police might ticket me.
conceptual traffic circle on, yes, very real street in Missoula Montana
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Grasses cover the slope of Mount Sentinel in Missoula, Montana ... a real place.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
. & then on the day of my birth circumambulate our guardian mountain the valley below just my silence all day a long walk-about slow ly around within & without the great interwoven-ness of it all & all day not another person #Missoula #aRealPlace #MountSentinel
The switchback trail winding up Mount Sentinel in Missoula, MontanaApproaching the summit of Mount Sentinel in Missoua, Montana
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAH HAHAHAHAHAH walk bike or enjoy the moment as it is
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Song Beneath Us ... original lithograph - mixed media edition. a Real Place [SF Bay Area and coast] and real songs beneath us.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/...
poetryfoundation.org
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my…
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Of those so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go. from T. Roethke The Waking
My feet on the earth, a real place, in Missoula Montana beside the river that flows west to the sea, the Clark Fork. . . Bearing Witness.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My father visited the Atomium that year 1958 and brought home for me a small model that sat on my desk for years and years.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
beautiful
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
& between loads of laundry in &&& out and up &&& down ink and flocking on paper scraps #toMake #aRealPlace
Varnish layers on paper and lids with flocking powders
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YA) such an important book we have two copies, one in each of our libraries !!!
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I error :: not the Missouri-Mississippi but water flowing downhill from Baring Creek, Sunrift Gorge into Saint Mary Lake, joining the Saint Mary River from Gunsight Mtn & Lake, flowing NE into Oldman River, tributary of the South Saskatchewan, together with the Belly and Waterton into Hudson Bay.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Perhaps ... & I will consider this ...
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
. . . wordlessly beautiful
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yup ... not quite that bad but close
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
. 28:Sept. 1909 on the NW corner of W. Front St. & N. Higgins Ave. in #Missoula Montana the #IWW preaching "the destruction of capitalism, worker control of production, & workplace-centered democracy" on our the Free Speech Corner historicmt.org/items/show/2... #FreeSpeech #aRealPlace
The Free Speech Corner in Missoula Montana.
On the NW corner of West Front Street & North Higgins Avenue.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love apples. I have always loved apples. APPLES YA YA YA
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. YA) &&& again and again through all the living ness in the world #Glacier-Waterton #water #Diversity #WE #aRealPlace #WaterCycle
Water flowing downhill in Dry Creek joining Two Medicine, Upper & Lower Two Medicine Lakes and Creek, into Two Medicine River joining Birch and Cut Bank Creeks, into the Marias River, the Missouri, the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. &&& again and again through all the living ness #Glacier-Waterton #water #Diversity #WE #aRealPlace #WaterCycle
Water flowing downhill from Baring Creek, Sunrift Gorge in Glacier-Waterton NP into Saint Mary Lake, joining the Saint Mary River from Gunsight Mtn & Lake, flowing northeast into Oldman River, tributary of the South Saskatchewan, together with the Belly and Waterton into Hudson Bay.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
... on our yard already :)
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. YA) water is moving through all of us &&& again and again through all the living ness in the world #Glacier-Waterton #water #Diversity #WE #aRealPlace #WaterCycle
Water flowing downhill into Lake McDonald in Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park in Montana ... west into the Flathead, the Clark Fork, the Pend Oreille, the Columbia, the Pacific.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
. toMake pressroom in Missoula, Montana . . . & still making
toMake pressroom in Missoula, Montana 2026
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
. toMake pressroom in Missoula, Montana . . . making a Real Place www.tomake.com #aRealPlace #Missoula #toMake #Printmaking #Lithography
toMake pressroom in Missoula, Montana . . .
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
. I try to remember, one two three counting coup :: naming names again & again the memory fades at 38 then :: &&& suddenly am I too someones counting of coup ‽ #CountingCoup #aRealPlace #Pinhole #Film #toMake
Six second exposure at dawn on Kodak TMAX100. OMNI 360° 120 format pinhole camera taken on the north hills in Missoula, Montana.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. One granite ridge A tree, would be enough Or even a rock, a small creek, A bark shred in a pool. Hill beyond hill, folded & twisted Tough trees crammed In thin stone fractures A huge moon on it all, is too much. The mind wanders. from Piute Creek by #GarySnyder #GlacierNP #aRealPlace #poem
McDonald Creek, Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park, September 2026. Ricoh GR4 Monochrome. Upstream view of the continental divide, Highline Trail and Going to the Sun road. 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47181/piute-creek
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. YA) above before desire I am always wet
Above Baring Falls. Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Baring Creek just above Lake Saint Mary. Missouri-Mississippi watershed.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. YA) water watershed wet :: I am become wet with desire
Baring Falls. Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Baring Creek just above Lake Saint Mary. Missouri-Mississippi watershed.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152560...
poetryfoundation.org
Why We Don’t Die
“It's late,” they say, “Lock the door, let’s go.” The body doesn't agree. It says “We buried a little iron Ball under that tree.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. Glacier N.P. Reynolds Creek Fire Perimeter August 3, 2015 Over 4,000 acres.
Glacier N.P. Reynolds Creek Fire Perimeter August 3, 2015
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. from a poem by Robert Bly titled Why We Don't Die In late September many voices Tell you you will die. That leaf says it, that coolness. All of them are right. #Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome
Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Red Eagle Mountain & Saint Mary Lake and the 2015 Reynolds Creek burn.Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Saint Mary Lake and the 2015 Reynolds Creek burn.
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Carl & Anne .... amazing life of service to/for/on behalf of others
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
. can you even imagine this entire valley beneath ice #McDonaldCreek Valley ... 'The Place Where They Dance' #aRealPlace #Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park
Looking from Going to the Sun road down into the glacier carved McDonald Creek Valley ... 'The Place Where They Dance' ... Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park
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