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Walter Rowland Butler

@wrrb.bsky.social
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I carve spoons, collect vintage fountain pens, and very little else. IG: @wrb_woodwork

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
four weird poems by Réka Nyitrai for #weirdpoemwednesday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
French theory

I watch ants carry rain from one city to another.
I take an example.
I put a cloud in a tote bag.
I notice how the north wind descends from a black limousine.
It takes my hat
and throws it into the past.Details 

Earth and laughter.
These are what dolls are made of.
Nothing like rice pudding
or sleep.
Just emotions;
perfectly flawed. Sunny.
Like that girl holding a kitten.
Or the thief who broke into your flower
shop
last weekend.Too late

After the tempest, they delay the trains.
I look for you everywhere in the Gare du Nord
but you aren't on the beautiful vampire list.
Still, I have not stopped raining,
so I write your name on seven napkins
to be left in seven cafes.
But you sleep far away
in a cornfield of poppies—
little ladybug, dreaming,
dreaming. Comma 

I take the daffodils
and give them mouth-to-mouth.
The radio cuts to a music station.
The rain stops.
If I had to choose a new star, it would be Betelgeuse.
If you proposed to me, I would refuse.
I know (,) that July is the right month for dancing,
so I give up everything
and jump off the knife's edge.
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled – and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.” Patrick Harpur ~ (painting by John Albert Bauer)
Mythic painting of a small child wearing a crown, her forehead to the nose of a huge gentle bear.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Do not ask for whom the crab ran; the crab ran for goon.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It's been a rough few weeks for all my trans homies out there, so I just want to say you are loved for who you are and fuck whatever those assholes want you to be. I hope the hate in their hearts eats them alive. But you, you deserve love.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Extinguish me from this. I was sixteen for for twenty years.
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lililimonada @lililimonada.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Una brasa encendida arde en mi, en ti, en todo y esas mismas estrellas que hasta aquí me han guiado son las que se complacen en su pulso de luz Siendo un solo ser
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Violets are grue Roses, demonic Si enil txen siht Boustrophedonic.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 11/02/2026
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
doubles luge. one guy lays on his back on the luge sled and the second guy lays on his back on top of the first guy
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Dated, mated, negated.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What a poem. From Jeffrey McDaniel's book, Alibi School, published by @therealmanicdpress.bsky.social. #poem #books #writing
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Richard Olney, in Simple French Food (Wiley, 1974) A minor prose masterpiece prefacing his potato-leek soup. (Which is easy, and profoundly soul-satisfying)
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Marjoram. I love this stuff.
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"You know / I always need to save something, to control it." 'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Sheer brilliance 🤍 #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections
'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press)
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hannah Bonner
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here’s a moody shot of a fantastic-looking pen: the Pilot MYU, from the first year they were made, 1971.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w... @jamieloftus.bsky.social
A statue of a Nathan’s Famous hotdog in Ukraine. The hotdog has shoes on and a strong curvy squirt of mustard along its length.
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Jonathan Howard @jhoward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#woodworking
Four pictures of some black benches with leather strap handles.
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
'Language as the body's echo, body as the instrument of life.' This is stunning. #amreading #amwriting lithub.com/words-as-bor...
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Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today
Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Painted plant stands, front and right, and their barn sale inspiration, back left. #woodworking
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Writing prompt
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here’s one for the #fountainpen threads- a ca. 1930’s Swan Jackdaw Toledo. Black and red-mottled ebonite wrapped with hand-engraved 24k gold bands.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
e.e. cummings is pretty metal about his art
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
All This Plus A Bell & there were words & there were words & there were songs & there were phonemes & Her knock knees were touch stones & her hooves sugar that mountain & the wind sugars that mountain & somewhere there is an ocean & that ocean makes my ears wish they were hands
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Letting AI do the heavy lifting this season. A USB-compatible turkey helps.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Odd little side table with a nod to Sam Maloof.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
From Hannah Bonner’s collection of poems, “Another Woman” (Eastover, 2024).
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Brenda Hillman.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Robert Olen Butler, from Severances.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
The Meatles
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
See a torty, post a torty. This is Dola.
Picture of a fluffy torty calico cat.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Irving Layton on berries.
Black raspberries on the vine
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joesferatu @24fps.myatproto.social · 24/05/2024
see a tort, post a tort (she's sleepy...)
Ms Leela a one eyed tortoiseshell cat looking at the camera for once
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
THE VOICE OF YOUR EYES IS DEEPER THAN ALL ROSES) NOBODY NOT EVEN THE RAIN HAS SUCH SMALL HANDS
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AH WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS FLOW
George Santos, mouth agape and lacking the hammer of the gods, sings the Immigrant Song.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
M.C. Richards
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
A tumble of little spoons, and my new favorite apple- Karmijn de Sonnaville, an intense fruit destined to dethrone the Honeycrisp.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Sonia Sanchez
A poem by Sonia Sanchez. 
Autumn. A bonfire of leaves. Morning peels us toward pomegranate festivals. And in the evening I bring you soup cooled by my laughter.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Marilyn Hacker, 1986.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
What I learned after 15 profitless years of custom cabinetry design: everybody loves spoons.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
Freakin’ Lorca. SO GOOD.
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Blueberry-tarragon butter
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