Well, just gonna say it: I was not blown away by the Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein.
#meh #Frankenstein #movies
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#poet --Poet, retired academic writing coach, gardener, blogger. Three books of poetry, 6 chapbooks: www.annemichael.blog Not ambitious. Curious about the world. Working on being more of a mensch.
Well, just gonna say it: I was not blown away by the Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein.
#meh #Frankenstein #movies
I'm glad he got a Times obit. He deserves it.
But it is such a loss. ๐
Time of year. ๐ฑ
#wind #autumn #grasses #gardening
Watercolor: Japanese maple in November, just before the windy days arrive. ๐ฑ
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11.11.2025 16:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#gardening #liquidambar #autumnleaves
Sweetgum leaves on a young tree.
Quasi-jungle cat.
#catlife #cat
#blog #walking #poems
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And he's a high achiever.
07.11.2025 19:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0He's so exhausted.
From napping all day long.
#Catlife #cats
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An elegy for a space canine.
#blog #laika #dog #poem
I'll be there!
02.11.2025 13:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm going! You should come! (zoom)
Sun 2 Nov 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: ONE ART x Keystone Poetry -
(I missed the in-person release so I'm glad this is happening.)
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๐ฑ last of season, after heavy frost last night.
#lateharvest
Latest blog post: More on traveling in Turkey, and a bit about poetic devices.
#blog #poetry #Turkey #zeugma #Euphrates
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๐ฑ Milkweed puffs.
#garden #nativeplant #milkweed
๐ฑ tithonia and bumblebee, late October ๐ฉท
#gardening #bee
Autumn colors look lovely against turquoise!
#Autumn #sweetgum #liquidambar #turquoise
Been there. Yep. Done that.
22.10.2025 21:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ฑ #ceramic #autumn
The ceramic head finds itself draped in walnut branch and foliage.
Because snake goddess queens are stunning.
#snake #goddess #folklore #turkey #Kurdish #Anatolia
๐ฑ yeah autumn.
#autumn #vivid #leaf
Back home: Pennsylvania, where autumnal hues have emerged. ๐ฑ
#autumnal
Traveling through Mesopotamia, meeting the bald ibis man, being from the USA abroad.
#baldibis #turkey #travel
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Traveling in Turkey is amazing, but the way the president here has gradually but effectively hurt his own citizens and tried to rewrite history to advance his own narrative is chilling. And all too familiar to this U. S. citizen.
10.10.2025 01:12 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Because bald ibises are so close to extinction. And so very amazing.
#Turkey #baldibis #endangeredspecies
Gazientep, Turkey at dusk from the terrace of a terrific kebap place in the old Town. Tomorrow, a tour of the markets. Then east and north to Sanliurfa.
03.10.2025 17:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0High-contrast cat.
#cats
Good curation here, going from potential inspiration to where poems come from to the reflective aspects of poem origin as one ages...and onward. And when I get home I'm going to read Martha Silano's last book. โค๏ธ
30.09.2025 12:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Adventuring and monarch butterflies.
#monarchs #butterflies #blog #travel #adventure
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