Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I wonder what he's holding in his right hand... 110
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A golden afternoon (a few days ago) to brighten your day/everything. 2132
Reposted by Veronika FuchsIce Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Today welcome remarkable poet, ice floe #author Lynne Jensen Lampe to our Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle series. 2 #poems, #haunting interiorized #visions @ljensenlampe.bsky.social w/ #Artpoems by @rfredekenter.bsky.social "Forget the sun ever sunned." icefloepress.net/2026/10/09/l...icefloepress.netLynne Jensen Lampe – Two Poems / Visual Poems – Robert Frede KenterRiot the Sky You’ve Tasted You know something of trouble and revolutions, gasoline and spectacle. Abandon law to whirlwind, lock fire. Knot of jealous burning, audit the ordinary who want violence … 094
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I shouted for joy. Just like I did in 2020, regarding Louise. 010
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The final lines from The Lost Suitcase, which Forché dedicated to Simko 🤍 011
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026from Eros the Bittersweet, the book that made me fall in love with Carson 1174
Reposted by Veronika FuchsJeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The 22nd Bird Dream and the 23rd Bird Dream. 03711
Reposted by Veronika FuchsLiam Sprod @liamsprod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026'Melancholia imitatur terram, crescit in autumno, regnat in maturitate.' — ANON., De Mundi constitutione. (MIGNE. P. L., VOL. XC, col. 881D). This cosmology, dating from before 1135, is printed among Bede's works. 231
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Since this appears to be an ongoing thread about angels, Rilke: They all have tired mouths And luminous, illimitable souls; And a longing (as if for sin) Trembles at times through their dreams. (from The Angels, tr. by Jessie Lemont) 020
Reposted by Veronika FuchsJohn Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Out of Valeria Luiselli’s tender (and pleasingly Pliny-haunted) novel Beginning Middle End (2026), two lyrical and essayistic outbursts: 2132
Reposted by Veronika FuchsVikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Delighted to have a new poem "On Culture: An Assay" in Poetry Online's October 2026 issue — and in wonderfully talented company too! 🤍 🍂 My thanks to editor Tarik Dobbs for giving this piece such a beautiful home 🙏 Read and listen to me read the full piece here: poetry.onl/read/vikki-c 12511
Reposted by Veronika Fuchspoemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Octavio Paz offers you a hummingbird. Exclamation Tr. Eliot Weinberg Stillness Not on the branch In the air 0196
Reposted by Veronika FuchsRaymond Normielib @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Perhaps the roses really want to grow, / The vision seriously intends to stay —W.H. Auden The rose blooms and knows not why, / Unencumbered by itself, oblivious to the eye. —Silesius trans. Gabriel Rosenstock 031
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The most peaceful and memorable ones were those at the old cemetery. Time and space take on dimension there: weathered angels gaze downward, tree roots grow into the graves. 151
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Some moments from the weekend's walks 📷 Greg M. 182
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Before death, sleep— or was it death, then sleep?" 💙 110
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The previous line dispels one's hesitation: "Endlessness runs in you like leaves on the tree of night." 010
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Days as if pulled from Anne Carson's Glass, Irony and God: "To live here one must forget much." 152
Reposted by Veronika FuchsSasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social 0206
Reposted by Veronika FuchsJeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The First 21 Bird Dreams. 78320
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you decide to treat them to BASED ON ESQUIRE ARTICLE, I'm sure they'll arrange for coffee to be delivered right to your door 👀😂 110
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Stumbled across this by chance on my discover feed! Congratulations and good luck🎉 You must have had quite a bit of coffee. :) 110
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There is, I know, a science of separation In night's disheveled elegies, stifled laments, The clockwork oxen jaws, the tense anticipation As the city's vigil nears its sun and end. Osip Mandelstam, from Tristia thanks to @samrasnake.bsky.social theamericanscholar.org/five-poems-o...theamericanscholar.orgFive Poems - The American ScholarTranslations by Christian Wiman 062
Reposted by Veronika FuchsSam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Osip Mandelstam, “Nowhere Air” Like water trickling from the highest ice Its bracing ache, its brain-shard sweetness, Its nowhere air of utter now, So my sigh has lost its source, And I live by meanings I cannot comprehend, For every instant I must taste the instant that I end. [Tr. C Wiman] 131
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I remind myself of this—I owe it to myself to remind myself—every time I relive a traumatic experience. 010
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October 1st. Honoring the magic of now. Breathing it in. Breathing it out. Now is now is now. 182
Reposted by Veronika FuchsDavid Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New micro poem up at @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social farewelltransmission.net/2026/09/no-s...farewelltransmission.netNo shadows inside the Sun - Farewell Transmissionby David Luntz Church bells blot memory. A typhoon glazes the sky. At the wake—incense, and walk-through saints. I brush the dead man’s hand. “Don’t go,” he whispers. “Knit your dreams to mine— m... 221
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thank you for sharing. I didn't know about this translation. For such a syntactically complex poem, the translation is simply amazing. 111
Reposted by Veronika FuchsSue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 26/09/2026New little collage (from a series using fragment cut from a 1930s children’s English language textbook). 4” x 4” on canvas panel. 2398
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope the sun will soon shine over your shores as well. 010
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"I would say this landscape Too is a document. But What is landscape? A procession Across the soul that thinks It's entering something? Then the cold, dunk withdrawal. It's something that can never be read again Or even once." John Ashbery, from "The Foggiest" 152
Reposted by Veronika FuchsChristina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rilkean bibliomancy in the afternoon 0122
![Osip Mandelstam, “Nowhere Air”
Like water trickling from the highest ice
Its bracing ache, its brain-shard sweetness,
Its nowhere air of utter now,
So my sigh has lost its source,
And I live by meanings I cannot comprehend,
For every instant I must taste the instant that I end.
[Tr. C Wiman]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreid45x3jhrmqwaurhd2x4wagmbdc4kj6bdf5edc5pxxuce6d65kdze)
