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Stephen Jackson

@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

🌱 | Pacific NW: Seattle, Portland, Eugene | Working-class poet, photographer | Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Prairie Fire, Impossible Archetype, WA State Queer Poetry Anthology | the no-man (Ghost City Press) | Website: https://stephen-jackson.com/

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Agreed!

10.08.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't read the book. But after reading your article, I'm looking forward to doing so.

10.08.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Into the woods!

10.08.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We don’t talk about this.

09.08.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also, checking in on the hollyhocks!

08.08.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blackberry and fig picking!

08.08.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Legend!

08.08.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A newspaper clipping that reads: "The Wizard of Oz. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."

A newspaper clipping that reads: "The Wizard of Oz. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."

One person’s fairy tale is another person’s nightmare.

07.08.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7
Back of an orange and yellow sunflower   Hanging straight down.

Back of an orange and yellow sunflower Hanging straight down.

Sunflower Wednesday

#EastCoastKin #photography #BloomScrolling

06.08.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 735    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 1

I've submitted 28 poems to a particular publication, which shall remain unnamed, seven of which have since been published elsewhere. I am now more determined than ever.

06.08.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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P Square.

05.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover to The Boy Who Reads in the Trees by Ron Mohring

Cover to The Boy Who Reads in the Trees by Ron Mohring

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All your meals will be in color now.
All your lights are green. You're good to go.
All your love returns a thousandfold.
All your coddled seedling trees will grow.
Almost all your geese leave in a vee.
Forget the earthbound gander pulling all the feathers from his breast. Time wounds all heels, said someone clever but unkind. It's all
forgiven now. Death wipes plates clean, fings these leftovers at the bin, the wall, who cares?
Not you. Not now. Forget the tremor, all that spilled from forks you tried to steady, all the cups half-filled. We're brimming over, wholly open now, like all your doors, fung wide. It hurts. This light. I's everywhere you were, And now you're there, and there, and there.

Go All your meals will be in color now. All your lights are green. You're good to go. All your love returns a thousandfold. All your coddled seedling trees will grow. Almost all your geese leave in a vee. Forget the earthbound gander pulling all the feathers from his breast. Time wounds all heels, said someone clever but unkind. It's all forgiven now. Death wipes plates clean, fings these leftovers at the bin, the wall, who cares? Not you. Not now. Forget the tremor, all that spilled from forks you tried to steady, all the cups half-filled. We're brimming over, wholly open now, like all your doors, fung wide. It hurts. This light. I's everywhere you were, And now you're there, and there, and there.

Ron Mohring’s book, The Boy Who Reads in the Trees. This book of poems is a heart breaking marvel

05.08.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Real Rent Duwamish Pay Rent to the Duwamish Tribe: Support the Duwamish Tribal Services through Monthly Giving

Have you paid rent yet? www.realrentduwamish.org

04.08.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pre-ordered! Can't wait to read it!

04.08.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This cardoon!

03.08.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hollyhocks! That’s what’s up!

31.07.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œLet me doze among my / Polaroids and poisons, corrupt / with ghosts…” from @erikjs.bsky.social Pretty Boys in Trouble.

31.07.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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I love Summer!

30.07.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is Wordle recycling words or did I play too many knockoff games when it first became popular?

29.07.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œIn summer, the song sings itself.” ―William Carlos Williams

29.07.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maged Zaher

28.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ―Arthur C. Clarke

26.07.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As my photographic aesthetic morphs.

22.07.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They shoot horses, don’t they?

22.07.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude should’ve gotten out and played more as a kid.

22.07.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œSummer's lease hath all too short a date.”
―William Shakespeare

21.07.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Seattle Art Fair is always so exhausting, but always well worth it!

21.07.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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…tf!

18.07.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sound up, it sounds like the fish are all talking amongst themselves.

16.07.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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