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Francois Lachance

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World Citizen since forever. Scholar-at-large since 1996, interested in discourses of technology, sensoria, social reproduction, and poetry as cognitive device. Avatar art: Joe Average (Canadian Coin, 2019)

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soft pink
satin petals
wild rose

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - wild rose

02.03.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FrΓΌhstΓΌck
fresh roll, dark coffee
immaculate linen

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - fresh

01.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in the quiet kitchen
the slow splutter
of simmering tomato sauce

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - tranquil

28.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

phases of the bud:
tight
swelling
unfurling

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - buds

27.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

leaping
tadpole ancestor
croaking at twilight

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - frog

26.02.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Knowledge Commons – Open access, open source, open to all

There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.

28.01.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

buttercup yellow dots
in the bunch of wildflowers
soon to droop

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - yellow

25.02.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This seems to be a bridging piece between your very free form recent paintings and the more architectural creations of your former period. Looks very promising.

24.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tuesday poem #673 : Frances Cannon : Litmus test How are you doing, humans?Β  Did you know that litmus is made from lichens? Β  We all gather in a coffee shop and pretend to work, alone...

Tuesday poem #673 : Frances Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com : Litmus test / @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social ;
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/02/tues...

24.02.2026 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research

AI development [...] in an ouroboros of overcapitalized investment in underproven infrastructure and revenue models, while the rest of the world asks why AI is needed at all (Widder and Hicks, 2024).

arxiv.org/html/2502.19...

24.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

flash on the wing
red over the marsh
blackbird guards territory

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - blackbird

24.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

by posting variations, you've tempted me to try my hand:

robin songs swirl
chorus through dawn mist

23.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

robin racing over
the spring litter
nest-maker

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - robin

23.02.2026 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

sesame seed bagel
with a smear of cream cheese
a simple collation

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - seed

22.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i like how the last two form a pair of opposites

21.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

too late for latte
the barista has run out
of milk

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - late

21.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behind the Scenes of a Wood Engraving Wesley Bates

2 hours of Wesley Bates engraving a wood block

vimeo.com/895333539

21.02.2026 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

day break
a streak of azure
blasts a carillon call

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - day

20.02.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The latest addition to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic project is by none other than @afmoritz.bsky.social! Please enjoy responsibly.

inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

15.02.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey! im reading at this! that's cool,

19.02.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a refreshing glass of water
on a hot steamy sticky day:
gulped and gulped

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - fresh water

19.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*your letter

19.02.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@derekbeaulieu.bsky.social on the process of composing Kern with dry-transfer lettering:

I construct these poems without the aid of plans or
sketches; the work builds gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves one letter at a time,
each placed by hand.

18.02.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very clever positioning of "at the end of the line" at the end : )

18.02.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

friend, i write
i miss you
and look forward to you letter

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - friend

18.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

separating yolk from white
beating in a thin stream of oil
to produce a sumptuous mayonaise

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - egg

17.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

high above
in a cloudy canopy
hover the terns

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - high

16.02.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Mine is the Fairy of Delicates."

from the author of POETRY IS QUEER

KIRBY
Fairy

FALL 2026 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/poetry...
kirbyfairy.ca

16.02.2026 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

warp & weft

blues & greens

subtle tapestry

15.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

on a slip of paper
a reminder to pick up
lemons, a tart little note

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - note

15.02.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0