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Jim May

@jamesdavismay.bsky.social

Poet, author of Unusually Grand Ideas. https://jamesdavismay.com/

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The Patron Saint of Fluster by James Davis May - Rattle: Poetry Three hours into the breakfast shift with orders on the green screen multiplying like alien ships in an old video game …

Praise all who save us from our small shames,
the ones whose hands take our hand
and lead us away to makeshift sanctuaries—

—James Davis May

08.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today's poem is "Standing Before the Relic at the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges"
by James Davis May
from Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
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07.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this good news!

26.11.2024 21:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poem for Sunday: “Here, There are Blueberries” by Mary Szybist.

24.11.2024 13:19 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“…he wanted me to know / that he knew I was there.”

—James Davis May, “Tumult and Peace” in UNUSUALLY GRAND IDEAS (LSU Press) 💙

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17.11.2024 15:37 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for the post @susanlleary.bsky.social!

17.11.2024 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

True story (again)!

17.11.2024 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True story!

13.11.2024 16:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How pure would poet pure be exactly?

13.04.2023 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Making my first post on Seamus Heaney’s birthday, so here’s a Seamus Heaney poem.

13.04.2023 12:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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