@garybarwin.bsky.social
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin “There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
#shortpoemsunday
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music to write to
I created this small suite of 5 piano pieces based on work by Erik Satie. Maybe they'll feel peaceful and inspiring to you in your work.
garybarwin.bandcamp.com/album/all-sm...
Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein.
youtu.be/XHIm6iLCZTk
when I was young, I wanted to be a mall I became a mall when the revolution came, I opened a store sold all the words the revolution needed blood, irony, agony and all the other words even these
Gary Barwin
@garybarwin.bsky.social
UPDATE! @garybarwin.bsky.social is the latest poet featured on "In the Third Sleep"!
inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Why do we worry?
Every word on earth is
in the perfect place.
That last line!
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bird song (barn swallow)
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Tom’s cat Mackerel peeking out in front of a copy of Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
wrote about this poem, along with another one I love by William Bronk and the wonderful artwork This Way Brouwn by Stanley Brouwn, at the 🔗 below :)
❄️: piersend.substack.com/p/on-the-par...
Oh Tooth Fairy
why’d you hafta
fall off the wagon
an entire grim smile
accumulating
under my daughter’s pillow
knowing too much
like the rest of her life
(& @poetactics.bsky.social miszhuzhed is epic!)
22 unreleased poems with 22 accompanying writing prompts from 22 poets running for the next 22 Sundays on my Substack
Can't wait to share these!
there once was a tulip it was like a bomb but more gentle boom, it went in the night boom, it went at dawn its red was blood if blood didn't mean dying
Gary Barwin
@garybarwin.bsky.social
that transition from the heavy guitar opening, to the recitative-like first verse is amazing! and the gradual increasing heaviness.
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maybe this, then?
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Bandaged Typewriter (for Dona Mayoora)
16.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think the moon and the sun are round, just we humans are flat.
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MY NOBLE PRIZE
we all have our own Nobel Prize.
published in UnderCurrents in 2014.
when do you think the first human felt nostalgia?
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Sleeping with a Tree
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Poets on fear, rage, death, etc @garybarwin.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @grantclauser.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social
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oh wow. I'll have to read this!
04.01.2026 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We haven’t spoken about him but we should!!
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