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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 27/04/2026

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

My poem in the Spring issue of Susurrus! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/light-in-feb... #poetry

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Light in February — Susurrus

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In the Spring issue of Cumberland River Review: crr.trevecca.edu/article/amer... #poetry

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Where in my house can I fit one more bookshelf?

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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

James Baldwin

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always chang-ing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Lady and her horse on a snowy day Photo by Félix Thiollier, 1899

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I used to listen to this song over and over, so dark and romantic. Thank you for reminding me of it. "Like the leaf clings to the tree..."

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

original harpsichord version a must!

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's on Empty Sky, really early album. It was played over the end credits of a movie I watched recently ('The Favorite') which brought it back to my mind.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Daniel" and "Come Down in Time." For obscurity, add "Skyline Pigeon"!

Front album cover: Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John

Front album cover, Elton John: Empty Sky

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Featuring: Gordon Johnston, D Bedell, @adrianabeltrano.bsky.social, Stasha Cole, @wrendonovan.bsky.social, Morrow Dowdle, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Mikey Jones...

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Just published, a gorgeous new issue of Susurrus, and I'm proud / honored to see my poem 'Overhead' a small part of this loveliness. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/overhead

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Overhead — Susurrus

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1942 version of Cat People. Night of the Hunter 1955. The whole atmosphere, lighting, sound, (the Cat People pool scene OMG), dark fairy tales. (I already loved the darker 'horror' Grimm's fairy tales.) I'm not that old but grew up watching 'old' movies! Later, ALIEN started me on horror sci-fi.

Movie poster for 1942 film "Cat People." The Criterion Collection. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, a Val Newton Production. Starring Simone Simon, whose face is featured on this b&w poster.

Underwater scene (Shelley Winters dead in car underwater, hair drifting) from The Night of the Hunter (1955). Directed by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchem, Shelley Winters Lillian Gish.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Some days it rains. Dorianne Laux

DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL

Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip.
Barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible, she tells me,
not like you think: all darkness and silence.

There are wind chimes and the scent of lemons.
Some days it rains. But more often the air
is dry and sweet. We sit beneath the staircase
built from hair and bone and listen
to the voices of the living.

I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair.
Especially when they fight, and when they sing.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I prefer the version on the left. This is a lovely poem!

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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Rust & Moth’s Spring 2025 issue is now available in print! This one concerns itself with messengers; be they voices from the other side, unfamiliar eyes in the leaves, winged familiars, or the seeds we use to pay them for their troubles. rustandmoth.com/issue/spring...

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Spring 2025 | Rust & Moth

Rust & Moth's Spring 2025 issue is now available in print! This one concerns itself with messengers; be they voices from the other side, unfamiliar eyes in the leaves, winged familiars, or the seeds w...

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

just realizing coffee beans will be worth much more than that.... so, maybe six or seven coffee beans, or teaspoon of real cinnamon.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Half-crazy lady in a flour-sack dress who gets by because she can sew. Talks to birds, who predict the weather, and will read your Tarot cards in exchange for a nickel or a handful of coffee beans.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Four poems to be published in April ! #poetry

Happy relaxed orange and white cat lying on his/her back among white clover flowers and yellow dandelions and green grass.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“There were marches, of course, a lot of women and some men. But they were smaller than you might have thought.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Love Rust + Moth, love seeing my poem here!

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A beautiful issue of The Shore, proud to be a small part of it.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Yule Book Flood," yet another reason I should have been born in a far northern place.

Jolabokaflod, Icelandic tradition of giving, receiving, and reading books on Christmas Eve while enjoying chocolate and warm drinks.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

can't decide if I'm one of the traumatized vampires or the neurodivergent social workers

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I experienced a weird (as in unfamiliar) sense of physical safety in Amsterdam. Like the absence of a weight I didn't notice until it was lifted. Seems akin to leaving a psychologically abusive relationship.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I loved this book, need to reread.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Island of the Blue Dolphins, still my "fav book" if anyone asks! A Wrinkle in Time. The Spiral Dance. Heart of Darkness. Sylvia Plath's poetry. Mythology. The Moon & the Virgin. Kindred. House of the Spirits. Beloved. Notes from Underground. Some history books: Bloodlands. Gulag. The Whisperers.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The Apartment is one of my favorite movies, period. I watch NL Christmas Vacation in honor of my mother who loved it. Grinch MUST be the original animated version! Die Hard is my new tradition? Also a necessity: Judy Garland singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Just that one scene 💔❤️‍🩹

Still from The Apartment starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon, directed by Billy Wilder, written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie poster

Vintage newspaper ad for How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1960s version)

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

And have been cold a long time / To behold the junipers shagged with ice, /

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Writers: publish now. Don't leave a drawer of unfinished, unpublished manuscripts for your family to deal with when you die. You're not Emily Dickinson. Your family might just bin the lot. Or put it into a new, different drawer, and forget.

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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Recent pubs! Orca Literary orcalit.com/paris-or-may... The Shore www.theshorepoetry.org/wren-donovan... Farewell Transmission farewelltransmission.net/2024/09/unti... Recent accepts! Rust + Moth (soon!) The Bookends Review (two!) Trying to motivate myself with exclamation! Mr. Matthias for tax.

Adorable orange kitty asleep upside down on a chair with his little paws curled.

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