Adrian Dallas Frandle

A cicada perches on Adrian’s outstretched index finger, with a river and woods in the blurry background

made a friend of the river

But we can still support each other

All we gotta do is avoid each other

Nothing wrong when a song ends

in a minor key.

- Fiona Apple, “Werewolf”

I’ll move to Rockferry
tomorrow
& I’ll build my, baby
with sorrow.

I’ll leave my shadow
to fall
behind.

& I wouldn’t write
to you

‘cause I’m
not that kind.

- Duffy, “Rockferry”

"None of us knows when we will die. This is why everyone is alone at midnight in the gas station parking lot, alone and weeping as Roy Orbison sings 'In Dreams.' "

Great @alinaetc.bsky.social joint; no one writes like her

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Fake Sick The past is the same as anything else—we built it and now we can't kill it. We keep lurching at it with the scoring ax and connecting with the walls instead. That punishing season— the hall light's hiss, the door off its hinge— I'm ready to stop remembering. The trouble is there's nobody else who can do it. A memory isn't a metal grille drawn down on a storefront at night, then unlocked in the morning. You can't fake sick, call in. There's no other person to wake in the slate dawn, drive into downtown, locate the recess, collapse the gate, maneuver the thing out of view. There's only you.

Natalie Shapero 💙

from POPULAR LONGING (Copper Canyon Press)

Day 2 - #SealeyChallenge

@sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Reminder! My online book launch is August 19th! ❤️

And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

RSVP (and get the link):
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a double U-turn is an ellipse

“Now Abraham does want to be clear: These birds aren't really getting divorced. They're not serving each other with papers, or appearing in tiny courtrooms high in the trees.”

TINY COURTROOMS HIGH IN THE TREES

Researchers find that songbirds sometimes get 'divorced' A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons.

BIRD DIVORCE!

www.wshu.org/npr-news/202...

“We must remember how wide the word ‘Iowa’ is.”

- William H Gass on the sensuousness of certain terms

Cover of Poetry Northwest from July 2025. The cover art, by Aspen Decker, shows a woman in native dress, standing before a yellow circle wreathed in deer prints. Maybe it is the sun. Some small creatures (not dogs, not deer) leap across the upper and lower parts of the page. On the left, a lavender stripe with some of the names of the writers published in this issue.

This photo shows the text of a poem, "Gratitude," which is too long to include in this text box.

This photo shows the text of a poem, "Gratitude," which is too long to include in this text box.

Having this poem out in the world is a little intimidating. But mostly I feel grateful for all this being & becoming, for my parts and my dear ones' and my therapist. And for the folks, especially Keetje Kuipers, who made room for this poem in Poetry Northwest.

"Sexually Suggestive
Does not include nudity."

My account flashed an ankle in public.

According to Bsky, I'm posting full medieval pewrn now

woodcut image in black and white of a man and woman, in a forest, as a menacing tree seems to be handing them wolf pelts. The caption reads “The dark Master gave a wolf skin to each.”

“The dark Master gave a wolf skin to each”

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From an amazing used book store find, “The White Robe, a Saint’s Summary” (1928)

Peculiar Heritage — MASON JAR PRESS The shock of American violence and hate shouldn’t be shocking at all. This is our peculiar heritage from an ugly institution. Still, we are not without resistance and Peculiar Heritage, a collection o...

If you read Peculiar Heritage for the Sealy Challenge, lmk, review it, share it with a friend, and when you're done, shelf it, or put in a little free library, or give it to your boyfriend's grandmother. If you'd like a signed copy, get in touch with me via my website. @masonjarpress.bsky.social

Larks book cover with a black-and-white photograph of a stack of cameras on a wooden table resting on a plank wood floor. A gauzy curtain wafts in from the right. The image is overlaid with the following text: Larks / Poems / Han Vanderhart / Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize | Selected by Chanda Feldman.

We're delighted to share this breathtaking essay by poet Han Vanderhart, author of the prizewinning book, Larks: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

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a post card of a drawing of an adult-looking Victorian child with monstrous proportions who appears to be rollerskating with improvised skates and she is holding a crop

“The Champion”

A book titled: Histoire de la Virilité: La virilité en crise? which has a large photo of Dirty Harry, played by Clint Eastwood, firing a gun

Histoire de la Virilité: 3. La virilité en crise? Xxe - XXIe siècle

“I smell like melons, fools!”

Laundry piles in my house replicating like tribbles

if you'd like to read Kiik's book for The Sealey Challenge, slide in my DMs & I'll give you a discount

I wake for a moment As Nestor to his beloved Lethe— Lethe, Lethe... All the rest I forget

good morning from Lyn Hejinian ☀️

Blown away by the first 2 stories - can’t wait to read the rest!

Go buy this book: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Loving this volume - “Anatomy of a Mind” on Freud(ianism[s]) was fantastic!

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

“Fiction is like garbage washed to sea on Heraclitus’ river. As the famous chef said: you can’t take the same bite twice, especially if you swallow.”

William H Gass in “The Ontology of the Sentence”

“There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.”

William H. Gass, “The Ontology of the Sentence” in the volume “The World Within the Word” (1971)