D. A. Powell

Fabulous 😍

Plum blossoms San Francisco, 26 January, 2026

Winter plum tree

Heart of Glass

May we all have such courage. 🎖️🙏🏼

The polite term is "embulgement"

We are delighted to announce The Poems of Sylvia Plath. The definitive edition of Plath’s poetry, drawing on decades of research and almost doubling the content of the previous edition of Plath’s Collected Poems. Out 7 May 2026.

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With the same six letters you can be silent and listen

One of the best 💖

Five expressions that are used when bumping into someone in an unexpected place…

1. It’s a small world (English)
2. How round is the earth (Ukrainian)
3. The world is a village (German)
4. The world is a handkerchief (Spanish)
5. What an odd place to find a lobster (Irish)

This short final paragraph of Grace Paley's short story "Conversation With My Father":

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“How long will it be?” he asked. “Tragedy! You too. When will you look it in the face?”

Quoin 133: of the ſame (1978 D)

ICE members self-escalated their own violence, giving themselves permission to commit what they knew to be illegal acts, including murder. The whole organization is rotten at its core, and the leaders should be charged with state crimes which DJT cannot pardon.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Children are crying out to us from prison. Let them out. Let them out.

How cruel does Donald Trump have to be in order to receive his peace prize.

I'll tell ya, it wouldn't leave much that isn't.

So grateful to the folks in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Beautiful and inspiring 😍 💘

More if they're studying poetry.

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Star Tribune: “Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s ‘stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”

There are plenty of non-queer people who suck dicks. Get with the times.

I usually went to the one at Charing Crossing. A welcome alternative to all the Pret a Manger. 🌭

COWBOY DON'T Cowboy, don't eat me. Yes I'm tasty, yes I've come from my warren stuffed like a Christmas goose, tongue lolling. But cowboy, think of my varnished nose, my bucket of pink gums, the opera of my eyes. Let the knotted grid loosen, let your hard silhouette overflow -- alluvial redemption -- let me slink away soundlessly into the lavender hills -- sanctuary caravan cowboy, don't eat me, go for the calf over there, tender as cactus jelly. I'm too sweet and too fat, my innards are frescoes of hormone spikes and acid splats -- mucho digestive scrabble -- don't open me to the scouring winds, please, close your paring knife, your dripping cowboy lips...Life is episodic and a revolution idles, there behind the pink escarpment where my pack is gathering now... The world, este mundo inmenso, gyrates and kicks, and the hot stars in their pale ignition are burning... burning...

"Cowboy Don't" by Aaron Shurin

Appreciation post for our legal observers holding it down and putting their lives on the line to protect their neighbors.

The tide is turning against ICE. Some Republicans are speaking out.

Hold the line. Stay peaceful. Keep exercising your First Amendment rights.

Drop her a note,Sam, I'm sure she'd love to hear from you.

I went there often. It was a genuine loss. Also I love Kurz and Lang on St John Street right by Smithfield market.

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

Buy some bookes from Dreamhaven yn Minneapolis: "DreamHaven specializes in new and used science fiction, fantasy, horror, film and media books, comics, and graphic novels."
dreamhavenbooks.com

Me and Dodie Bellamy went to hear the inimitable Mary Stallings in North Beach on Saturday.

It will be a crime to take a photo
But not a crime to fake a photo

Dark Times

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."