Wow.
17.02.2026 03:59 β π 9686 π 4835 π¬ 384 π 660@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems https://kylahoubolt.us/becoming-altar.html
Wow.
17.02.2026 03:59 β π 9686 π 4835 π¬ 384 π 660"The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session Tuesday to consider legislation to ban private persons, corporations, property owners or third-party contractors from gaining permits to operate detention centers in the county...."
www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...
I hope you're okay? Yipes.
17.02.2026 08:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FireHorse
WaterDragon
EarthMountain
AirHawk
More info, from the instagram account that posted the video
17.02.2026 07:29 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Affrilachian Poets 35th anny poetry reading
this friday at 6pm
carrick theater,
transylvania university in lexington
nearly 20 of us with 5 mins each to read
featuring Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Frank X Walker, Randall Horton, Jeremy Paden, Gerald Coleman, & others
oh, & myself.
This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.
βGod answered our prayers,β the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...
www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
I totally don't get the whole thing of identifying with a generation.
16.02.2026 21:54 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#Earworm Letβs all go to the lobby!
16.02.2026 17:46 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0hmm, same here.
16.02.2026 21:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For #BlackHistoryMonth today my focus is: Nathan βNearestβ Green, the enslaved master distiller who taught a young Jack Daniel how to make Tennessee whiskey.
www.history.com/articles/jac...
First published in the chapbook *Tuned* then later collected in *Becoming Altar*.
16.02.2026 21:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mirror I will continue to clench my jaw I will continue to see a horse in all things I will not be able to ride the horse it is wild it knows better than to take the bit. But sometimes that horse βthat stormhorse, firehorse, owlhorseβ sometimes that horse will slow enough for me to grasp its mane and then we fly
#Poetry #LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse
Mirror was published with only the first stanze; the second was added later. Seems appropriate for the year of the FireHorse!
Purple crocuses emerging under green leaves, with brown dead oak leaves around and about.
Yellow and purple crocuses, dead brown leaves, sun and shadow.
Put on my gardening pants today to do just a bit of early clean-up out there. That waistband has gotten a bit tight over the winter. π
16.02.2026 21:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02 purple crocuses, one just a bud, emerging through overwintered green stochasia leaves and a bit of brown duff.
Comin' through
16.02.2026 20:56 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ugh
16.02.2026 20:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
16.02.2026 20:20 β π 492 π 167 π¬ 15 π 18This is such horseshit. We have been talking for a decade about this switch, Iβve gone through all kinds of bullshit because of RealID, and now OF COURSE we are like βnever mind, thatβs all security theater, but you canβt travel if you are poorβ
16.02.2026 19:15 β π 104 π 30 π¬ 6 π 3It did indeed.
Until DJT et al had it taken down.
The back and front jacket of 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza. White text against vertical bands of bluish colour, set against a background of green silken folds.
To hell with the small life. I am not exquisite.
Cannot sing like bone china. This is the blue hour.
I swim in it, alone and perfectly.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Β£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I'm going to promote the heck out of this:
The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation.
More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...
Empty words
do not exist.
Handling: General considerations The cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. It has no 'code of ethics' or considerations for its own future. In a fair fight it will win. 1. DON'T FIGHT A CAT 2. USE YOUR BRAIN 3. USE DRUGS
reminder
16.02.2026 04:01 β π 1154 π 382 π¬ 23 π 39Matejkoβs βStaΕczykβ. From Wikipedia: βStaΕczyk is shown sitting alone in a dark room, while a ball, hosted by the royal family, is in full swing in the neighbouring hall. His appearance is unlike that one would expect in a jester β gloomy, deep in thought. His seriousness is reinforced by his accessories: his marotte lies discarded on the floor, whereas a holy medallion of the Black Madonna of CzΔstochowa can be seen on his torso. The wrinkled carpet at StaΕczyk's feet could have been formed by his collapsing heavily into the chair upon reading the letter, or through a nervous shifting of the feet thereafter. On the table lies a letter likely announcing that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has lost Smolensk (now in Russia) to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, causing StaΕczyk's sorrow and reflection on his fatherland's fateβ
Thought Iβd start posting from time to time some of the most famous Polish paintings, so that my non-Polish followers can learn a thing or two about our culture. This one by Jan Matejko is called βJestermaxxingβ, and it portrays a guy who, tragically, jestermaxxed
16.02.2026 13:21 β π 155 π 36 π¬ 5 π 0"Plain dealer", eh? Not so much.
16.02.2026 14:31 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Running in a swing district north of New York City, Cait Conley has walked a fine line on matters of immigration and the national security apparatus.
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16.02.2026 10:50 β π 17 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0When I was starting out as a writer, I listened to hours and hours of archived Bookworm shows. He was the greatest of literary interlocutors, elevating the thirty minute βbooks showβ to new artistic and intellectual levels. Listening to him made me a better writer, and a much better reader. RIP.
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