yesterday for my birthday, the inimitable tess bath read this chessy normile poem aloud to me (for what feels like the hundredth time).

you have been living and aging.
you are so proud of you.

😢 BREAKING: A Palestinian man was just shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.😢
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and in a devastating turn of events

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Of course you don't know how to write it. That's why you have to write it

hass

how sad

i hope the trees i climbed as a kid are still standing

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Screenshot of a poem: THE RIDER A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

“The Rider,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, from her book Fuel.

did you know i’m a bright fucking light?

gotta remember, broiler happens fast

Celebrations as 200 Palestinians held in Israel jails freed under Gaza deal Second captive-prisoner swap has taken place as part of first phase of Gaza ceasefire agreement.

At least three Palestinians have been injured by Israeli bullets on Salah al-Din Street in the central Gaza Strip, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

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Does anyone ever wane poetic

to continue to write is to be surrounded by ghosts

YES!!

important notes for poems

a poetry slam should be a poet performing in a boxing ring while a pro wrestler body checks them for three minutes

oops wrote a sonnet instead

maybe i’ll fuck around and submit some poems today

by Danusha Laméris via Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots newsletter

now the snow is rain because of a divine tropic