Pippa

At the End of the World Is Forgetting  by Dick Westheimer - Rattle: Poetry In the abandoned stacks of the abandoned wing of the library where abandoned books are kept—there is quiet beyond the finger-to-the-lips shush, beyond the quiet thrum of the furnace deep in the womb o...

Appreciate that the good folks at @rattlepoetry.bsky.social love haibuns as much as I do! rattle.com/at-the-end-o...

Fairy Cross in a mica schist matrix

There is a stone called Staurolite, also called a Fairy Stone or a Fairy Cross, that I just think more people should know about. It appears in nature as a cross formation. Its influence is subtle but significant, and it’s really quite incredible to work with.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

The soundpoetry of Starlings: storing data in birdsongs. #bioart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

this is
an image of when
one of us was about to say,

—then language dissolved
into
   a million unreadable
   vocations

ode to the luxury of loss
to the glitch
that speaks through
my phone
and the apps that
thought
they knew how
to love me

embedded in the other poem

#forensicPoetics

erasure poem using punch-out circles from a nautical map to obscure unwanted text. From "Classic Crimes"

when I spoke of bathing
a dazed state commenced
all round about us,
with a splash
a big, heavy
morning
was beginning to break.

-a visual poem from my book, Classic Crimes

“Porosity” by Deirdre Lockwood Season of salmonberry then currantraspberry thimbleberry cherry almostblackberryof ants in the kitchenof napping while she napswriting undercoverthe blanket naked (its crimson sleeve whirling in th…

Season of salmonberry then currant
raspberry
thimbleberry cherry almost
blackberry

—Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning!

@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social

One Poem by Grant Clauser - Terrain.org Grant Clauser's ecopoem "Slugs Have Teeth, and Other Useless Facts" (with audio) may, like the poet himself, keep you up worrying at night.

I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

The latest issue of Prune Juice, the #senryu journal, is out, and I'm happy to have a poem in its pages. Thank you to the editors! And congratulations to Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social for taking over starting next issue! To read more, go here:

prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/07/30/i...

Night questions, echo the sun; underworld journeys, across the earth.

Dawn is a place, and it is we that come; our time a circle, we walk from dark.

Do not ask, if light will return; ask what you will be, when it does.

#sijo

late november day;
even the most stubborn leaves
concede to winter

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#haiku #haibun #haiga #motorcycle #motolife #senryu

Episode 42 - The Seasonal Movement - Folkloring Welcome to the Folkloring Podcast.   In this episode I have a conversation with Ruben Gomez, founder of The Seasonal Movement. We discuss living in harmony with the seasons and how folklore can g...

The latest episode is live and I have a great conversation with Ruben Gomez, founder of The Seasonal Movement, a movement about how to live in harmony with the seasons (so much folkloring in this one!) www.folkloringpodcast.com/2275302/epis... #folklore #folkloring #seasonalmovement #ancestry

Thank you...

a close up of a person 's hand with a blue curtain in the background ALT: a close up of a person 's hand with a blue curtain in the background

pillows
still stained
with your voice
my hand
shaping your color

previously published in Moonbathing Journal of Women's Tanka

#tanka #micropoetry #poetry #WritingCommunity

I knew Anya had a point...

Just what is Shoegaze Horror? Shoegaze Horror is perhaps as elusive as it is immersive—a cinema of ghosts, memories, and slow-burning dissolution where horror is less about what happens than how it feels, vibrating out through …

What is Shoegaze Horror?
A Ghost Story, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Skinamarink and beyond… a horror cinema of ghosts, memories, and slow-burning dissolution, dislocation, dissociation, depersonalisation & derealisation.
I take a walk through 17 films…
📽️👻
whitlockandpope.com/2025/02/23/j...

Or do they hint?

It's kind of incredible how many words we DON'T have to describe smells, when they conjure feelings and associations so vividly...

A #haibun of mine previously published in Prune Juice...

#senryu #micropoetry #poetry

tv static was liminal time in media. it held a weird power bc it indicated that “there was something here, but it’s gone now” or “there is nothing here… yet.” the backrooms wield the same ambiguous menace of an empty stage, but now we get ads when we pause a video. god forbid our minds wander

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Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time ‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

It makes sense then that #fanfic #writers were among the first creators to raise the alarm about their work being fed into learning language models powering generative #AI without their knowledge or permission.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Diana Wynne Jones
Jane Austen
Kurt Vonnegut
Isabel Allende
Toni Morrison
Natsume Soseki
Voltaire
Samuel R. Delaney
Ursula LeGuin
Stephen King

16th century book open to a page with hand-coloured woodcut of strawberries

Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.

On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written.

But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.

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We’re live! This is one of the stories closest to my heart—my queer time travel pirate musical set on Southeast Asian seas, now out in the world for everyone to listen to 🏴‍☠️

Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.

Here's a lovely photo of Big Bad Beatrice. She's a tall, purple ghost-like being, with seven yellow cat-like eyes and greenish blue eyeshadow. She has a large mouth filled with big, sharp teeth. She has two greenish blue tentacle-like arms. Her lower body is covered with embroidered greenish blue flowers. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art creature Sweet William. He has a black gumdrop-shaped body and a blue face with four lavender eyes. He has an open mouth and seven sharp teeth. He has long arms with hands that are like pincers. He has six lavender, lightning-shaped spikes coming out of the top of his head. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here are some of my recent creations!

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A woman looks in a mirror with a cat nearby.

A cat climbs up a woman's clothing towards her face.

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a tale about a couple who owned a cat. One day when the woman was putting on her make-up the cat came up to her and spoke, saying how pretty she was. She ran and told her husband what had happened and insisted that the cat must be some kind...
#MythologyMonday
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a cup of coffee with a picture of the ocean inside of it Alt: a cup of coffee with a picture of the ocean inside of it

tidal flat fog--
enough steamers
for dinner

(previously published in Akitsu Quarterly)
#haiku #micropoetry #poetry

two frogs sitting on a rock in a pond with water lilies ALT: two frogs sitting on a rock in a pond with water lilies

sudden rain rearranging an algae bloom

(previously published in Akitsu)

#haiku #micropoetry #monoky #monostitch #poetry