Adrian Dallas Frandle

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Psalm I keep deer in my heart forgive the ancient fold I keep the woods there too o altar that wanders away from prayer keep no thing blank in this highest praise deer drink water out their hooves cloven print

Dan Beachy-Quick

@tupelopress.bsky.social

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Greg, a large brown lab, lays on a couch facing a chair in which a small chihuahua sits, facing him, like a psychiatrist in analysis

The Analysis of Greg (2025)

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Orange Tree by Margaret Ross A ginkgo leaf like a splayed ass A begonia leaf is a pebbled surface green and burgundy A long and narrow leaf curls down All the different methods of extending yourself so the sun might better touch you Serrated edges of the teardrop nettle leaves sting your fingers The nursery labels everything and so assigns appearances to names I only know from fiction Old novels set in houses with gardens where the lovers meet or someone paces, thinking

Jonquil and clematis Omniscient narrator conceived by a dead person From the limb of a sapling in a silver tub the photo of a future flower dangles by a plastic noose Years ago, you biked home with a leaf tucked under your helmet and taped it by its stem up on the door I try to force my soul up to the surface of my skin I try to send my mind into my mouth, into my hand to touch you with I repeat in my head the sentences I love you I love you more than anyone ever can and suck your cock repeating them

You stood in the bathroom testing faces in the mirror while I lay in the next room pretending to read You could make soap balance on a round ledge The ragged flesh along your thumbs where you bite the skin off watching television Stop, it hurts me when you do that How can it hurt you On your knees, preparing surfaces stapling canvas over stretchers laying ground over the canvas You pour paint on wet gesso so the stain spreads slowly on its own and we can go get coffee Trying to get down under the immortal dailiness and touch the myth beneath the fiction

We stayed one night with a couple I knew At dinner, the wife ate rice with us and the husband ate what looked like rice but was in fact minced cauliflower She set the bed up in the living room We’d go before they woke We fucked very quietly in the gray light Your fingers in my mouth and my body pressed against the firm hollow of the air mattress we knelt on to deflate When the hissing stopped, we folded it We stacked the pillows and the sheets We did everything you do to leave

this poem by Margaret Ross from @parisreview.bsky.social's daily poem email is absolutely killer, from the opening line all the way down

"Stop, it hurts me when you do that

How can it hurt you"

Sometimes my mother wants to sit up and look around. She gets anxious lying down. For this, I wedge myself behind her in bed, my feet against the wall to hold her up back to back. I ask her if we don't look like soldiers. A couple of grunts in the muck. She says soldiers would have cigarettes. She's gotten picky about comparison, she won't make do with a poor one, and anyway, our bodies have grown different. I touch her more sitting like this than I have in my entire life, her back delicate, muscles softened but still broad and full of recent strength. I got my back from her. Shoulder to shoulder, rib to rib. She didn't ask me for a mirror. She asked me for a match.

this prose poem by Liza Hudock omg

@floodeditions.bsky.social

Re-opening: Variant Literature Journal Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/variant-literature-journal-27746 #amwriting

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SIGNAL TO NOISE, poems by Eve Luckring Signal to Noise is a haunting of the ears, a fathoming of loss, an appraisal of fragmented attention. Constructed in two parts, the book invites the reader into a state of transitional uncertainty as ...

cc: @thetenderbetween.bsky.social, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

Eve’s marvelous book is available here: www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...

fun letter from the water company today: “we don’t know what your water main is or is not made of, but it may be lead.”

AT THE MOVIES In this movie, Jesus and my mother are at a bar drinking mojitos. The music swells as Jesus unzips his skin, revealing a metallic endoskeleton. The audience claps politely. Jesus's eyeball pops out, but my mother just pushes it back in with a familiar sigh. I finally rise from my movie theater seat to embrace her. The lights flash red. How did my mother become younger than me? While the curtains close, Jesus fiddles with the drained batteries in his chrome torso. I don't tell him I have some extra AAs in my jeans pocket. We start to walk out of the theater, but Jesus can't make it past the exit door.

ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:

hexliterary.com?p=2909

James Joyce, asked why he preferred Catholicism to Protestantism:

“Why should I renounce a coherent absurdity for an incoherent one?”

"Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano."

Contributor @rpmirabella.bsky.social published a flash piece in @hexliterary.bsky.social! 🔥 buff.ly/Bm9VRh3

Hey, everyone! A Bulb update for you!

L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here!

And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.

Pay what you can, and support a really good organization. Dec 18th at 7PM!

YouTube video by Carlos Ivan [ASMR] Clumsy Boyfriend Opens Emergency Exit On Plane [Sleep Aid]

after “random animal with pumpkin” these disaster ASMR videos are my favorite trend

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“All of us are adolescents when we are passionate about the absolute.”

Julia Kristeva, (tr. Beverly Bie Brahic) in “This Incredible Need to Believe”

some of the aforementioned clip art images are displayed on the cd in a see through blue: a skull, a teddy bear, a kitty, an american flag, roses, a bird, etc, etc. title text is displayed at the top of the disc in bold black text. version 2.0

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I'm so thrilled that we've already raised a combined $252 for the ACLU!! I specifically wanted to support a cause/org helping with immigrant rights, but the ACLU extends much further, providing support for trans folks, women, and other communities in need. Tap in if u wanna join!

If you're teaching creative courses or AA lit courses or women/gender/sexuality courses next semester and you need fiction or poetry, consider teaching my work! I'll visit your class online for free or come to your school if you cover travel!
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"How do you feel about your recent purchase?"

**sobbing** best rug pad I ever bought

First Love, essays on friendship. Lilly Dancyger, author of negative space.

"That’s essentially the heart of the project: What would it look like to treat friendships as love stories?"

This time last year, @lizziemlawson.bsky.social interviewed @lillydancyger.bsky.social on her essay collection FIRST LOVE. Find it in the archives! 💕 buff.ly/5dzItrM

YouTube video by Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Muskox vs giant pumpkin

i love “unfamiliar animal vs pumpkin” season

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It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."

ICYMI

A variety of LGBTQ+ flag pins on a table.

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

The book Learn the Trees from Leaf Prints with a print of a green leaf on the front with a bag next to it full of leaves.

Got this book today at the used book barn THAT CAME WITH LEAVES!