Daniel Carden Nemo

The herring gull, the sun captain, steers his course. Below him is the water. The world is still sleeping like a many-colored stone in the water. Undecipherable day. Days— like Aztec hieroglyphs! The music. And I’m enmeshed in its tapestry, with arms raised high—like a figure out of folk art.

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈/𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, another poem in which Tranströmer’s literary artistry shines in the way he compresses broad concepts into concrete images.

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Did you know science now shows the lives of other organisms are far more complex and sentient than we thought?​

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to post one of these every week as a reminder.

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Superb post as ever from @jntod.bsky.social

My evening sorted...

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Look at the gray tree. The sky has run through its fibers down into the ground— only a shriveled cloud remains after the earth has drunk. Stolen space is entwined in the lattice of roots, spun into greenery.—The brief moments of freedom rise out of us, swirl through the Fates’ bloodstream and beyond.

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, a poem that interweaves questions of free will and determinism while revolving around the hidden cohesion between disparate elements.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/contexture

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Are you aware that sheep display pessimistic or optimistic cognitive bias depending on their emotional state?

We haven’t evolved until we stop calling cruelty and killing “tradition.” Why not choose what to pass on?

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A big thank you @betarish.bsky.social for a very encouraging review of Beast in Under the Radar Issue 36! The flight issue looks ♥️ and can be ordered here:
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Let me tell you a story about the kingdom of the forest with its root-pulls and crown-sways and its systems of fungi, how it feels to belong to a realm where thought is decision honed over time and shaped only by memory, to follow patterns in plants and watch the arc of clouds to know where to shelter let me tell you what I’ve seen out there in the forest where every movement matters and each pause carries weight, what it means to see a roe deer pick its way through elm shadow tilting its ear at the onset of rain, the curve of a hindleg caught on lichen, the strange tic-like starts in its eyes that have learned not to blink, its body sinewed and patterned to fade into brushwood

Read my poem "The Crossing," a finalist for The Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest 2025

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Are you aware that farmed pigs develop abnormal repetitive behaviors under chronic stress, such as bar-biting and sham chewing?

When we defend cruelty as a preference, we diminish whatever we believe it is that makes us human. See it for what it is.

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Ever noticed how the surface of the earth seems to give things away, how the movement of a stalk or the incremental furling of a fern, or the glint that arrives, uninvited, on the carapace of a beetle beckons toward something like an intuition vaguely felt, and if feeling escapes that way then surely the world in which it occurs must be less a collection of discrete, unrelated objects and more a single, continuous interior mistaken for world, misjudged as what is not us, when in fact it is a giant reflex or image that absorbs both subject and object by way of refraction, like light through a prism: without oath or allegiance, first the subject, who thinks it is observing, then the object, who has already resigned itself to being seen, which is how we know what we perceive isn’t just surface, but signal.

Read my poem "Hamartia" in the new issue of Asymptote.

www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/hamartia-daniel-carden-nemo/

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The stones we’ve thrown I hear falling crystal-clear through the years. In the valley the confused actions of the moment fly howling from treetop to treetop, fade in air thinner than the present’s, glide like swallows from mountaintop to mountaintop until they reach the furthest plateaus at the edge of being. Where all our deeds fall crystal-clear toward no bottom but ourselves.

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫.

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Are you aware that goats can learn from observation and remember solutions to tasks for at least 10 months?

If animals are commodities, life is collateral damage. Let them live.

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Finally, falling like paratroopers, the leaves are blanketing the ground and the piles are starting to take shape and I want to kick and jump into the biggest heaps, like I did when I was a child, a rather mischievous one the more I recollect.

"The world is a mess, but then it’s always been, / tragedies ongoing no matter how I write / against them."

Two poems by 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗦𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘁 in the Fall 2025 issue

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Sleeper so you saw how it was no use, that earth was no more than the slippery minute, a cloakroom of woods and bodies

Today's Feature:

"Sleeper" by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes from My Secret Life published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Read here:
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A storm sets the mill’s wings turning wildly in the dark of night, grinding nothing—You are kept awake by the same laws. The grey shark’s belly is your faint lamp. Hazy memories sink to the sea floor and turn into strange statues—Green with algae is your crutch. The one who goes out to sea comes back harrowed.

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒓 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫.

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Are you aware that chickens possess over 20 distinct vocalizations, including specific alarm calls for different types of threats?

When a habit depends on someone else's suffering, it stops being habit and becomes harm. See it for what it is.

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Low Devotions Breaking the Circles of Eternal Punishment

If you love the natural world, you can read my study on how we came to mistake our own constructs for the world itself, in an invitation to look for the cracks where the underlying reality seeps through.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/low-devotions

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Congratulations to 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 @janezwart.bsky.social whose debut collection is out on Feb 3 from Orison Books.

Read two of her poems first published in Amsterdam Review: bit.ly/jane-zwart

and buy a copy here: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page/oddest-oldest-saddest-best-poems-by-jane-zwart

Did you know animals have highly developed neural systems for processing specific informational needs?

All creatures have a right to life. They aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature.

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A girl is born then twisted, unfolds a gluttonous body, popping each beachball moon into a wide yellow mouth. Once, I could peel back the face of a planet like a clementine or sit in a creek & abstract

"How to fight embodiment? Expand / against embrace, shake radiation like a dog, / strip, condense, reconfigure."

A poem by 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗻 in the Fall 2025 issue

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Really interesting reflections on poetry collection as concept album here, alongside some great recommendations (delighted to be among them)
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The outer ring belongs to myth. There the helmsman sinks upright among the glint of fish-backs. How far from us! The day stands in a windless tension— Congo’s green shadow holds the blue men in its mist— and the heart’s slow river fills with driftwood.

Read my new translation and analysis of 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/strophe-and-antistrophe

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Do you believe a sentient being can be a product? Are you a product?

The word MEAT is a linguistic shield. Try using BODY instead.

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Are you aware that ducks and geese form strong social bonds and experience distress when isolated?

Are taste buds more important than a social, sentient creature's life? Let them live.

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Did you know that pigs show empathy-related behaviors, responding emotionally to the distress of other pigs?

A meal that requires empathic creatures to die shouldn't be called "comfort food." See it for what it is.

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Did you know animals not only influence the living environments of the planet but also lead complex lives that involve feelings and mental control?

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

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There are bare winter days when the sea is kin to mountain country, crouching in a gray-feathered hide, a brief minute blue, then long hours with waves like pale lynxes pawing in vain at the shore gravel. On days like this, shipwrecks rise from the deep in search of their owners lost in the noise of the city, and drowned crews drift landward, thin as pipe smoke.

Read my new translation and analysis of 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆 by 𝐓o𝐦a𝐬 𝐓r𝐚n𝐬t𝐫ö𝐦e𝐫, a piece that threads symbolic nuances and personal fascinations with isolation, survival, memory, and the spectral traces of trauma.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/skippers-tale

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Are you aware that chronic stress in farm animals alters brain development, affecting learning and emotional regulation?

Tradition can either be seen as an excuse to ignore suffering or as an invitation to do better.

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Did you know that migratory animals use magnetic fields, polarized light, scent, and even the stars to navigate continents and oceans?

"The essential quality of animals is that they live purely by the great purposiveness of life itself; they have not a double consciousness, as we have. They are at one with the invisible vital law." - DH Lawrence

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Did you know that humans have a disproportionately negative effect on the Earth and most of its organisms?

Compassion is not a personality trait—it's an option we all have.

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Did you know that most farm animals are slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan, often before reaching social or cognitive maturity?

Killing and eating animals is the endorsement of a system built on violence and denial. See it for what it is.

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