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Alex(ander) Gast

@alexgast.bsky.social

Queer poet, "queer" meaning both "odd" and "gay." Senior studying creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Former Firehouse Subs employee; neither substandard nor exceptional at the art of sandwich-making.

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cavemen were probably like: "i'm so addicted to my boulder i can't stop going on my boulder." and their slightly condescending caveman buddy would say "you have to stop going on it at night and also put it in grayscale, i'm hardly ever on my boulder anymore."

23.03.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Short(ish!) Poem Sunday: "Averting the Gaze," by Benjamin Garcia. from Thrown in the Throat, 2020. Also found here: mistakehouse.org/article/mist...

"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"

12.01.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heather Christle. From POETRY, October 2013.
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".

24.12.2024 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Short Poem Sunday! Here's "In a Field, at Sunset" by Carl Phillips, from his 2023 Pulitzer-winning book, 'Then the War.' One of my favorite short poems ever.

22.12.2024 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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found this lovely recording of Tom Hiddleston reading T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and it is phenomenal! ...though i am intrigued / disturbed by the creative choice to put the recording over an uncomfortably close pic of Hiddleston's eyes. this is how Frodo looks at The Ring:

11.12.2024 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, Bluesky! I'm Alexander Gast. Interests: cats on Instagram / cats off Instagram / words that lift off the page like UFOs, braille / looking at stars and, in company, saying: "y'all, these stars!" / sifting bowls of syllables / line breaks, if the line brakes / air, cloud, sky.

Let's be friends!

14.11.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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