David Keating

Drat the file, and drat the bone! That is hard which should be soft, and that is soft which should be hard.

Views over the sea, blue sky, blowing grass in the dunes at Cocklawburn beach near Berwick Upon Tweed.

Morning winter sunshine at Cocklawburn beach near Berwick upon Tweed. Warmer today and no one to be seen, perfect.

#landscapephotography
#UK
##seascape

I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...

"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...

#Crowned #Kinglet 🌺

Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, who could strangle you with a cordless phone if he wanted to, is pictured. Chief O'Brien, who can kill 2 stones with 1 bird, is facing the camera and winking. O'Brien, who can dribble a bowling ball, is on DS9 station and wearing his classic gold uniform, and has the energy of a man who is walking away from an explosion without looking backwards at it. Closed caption reads, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

32% tariff on the Upside Down, ugh.

Those Wilson's storm petrels are gonna pay.

I'm glad there's something out there for people who love Studio Ghibli films, but also hate art, imagination and goodness.

Let us who live try

Charles Olson

Mark Rothko, "Untitled", (1954).

NEW POEM #195: "Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]" by Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social)

"For now, the sea goes on tossing in her sleep, remembering, forgetting, / hot flashes cooking silver fish in the only world they’ve ever known."

stonecirclereview.com/live-inside/

Cover image of the book Martin John by Anakana Schofield

Couldn’t put it down. The most engrossing book I’ve read this year. @anakanaschofield.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social #amreading #booksky

A postcard with a quote by artist Ai Weiwei: “To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.”

Needles by Brian Bilston

Want to submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology? Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid!

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
 
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Have you ever heard of Mummers?

Christmas Mummers' Plays were once a familiar part of festive celebrations in Britain. Performed during the twelve days of Christmas, these lively performances by 'Mummers' are now almost forgotten.

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Comical drawing of a giant Christmas pudding surprising a man in bed!

Beware the terrifying Christmas pudding! Giving you nightmares since 1895.

An illustration from an 1895 annual published by the British satirical magazine ‘Judy.’

From the collections of Cambridge University Library (CUL 1895.9.91) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Christmas Eve night, elves on strike.

A life-sized horse statue tiled in mirror bits like a disco ball you can ride. I’m standing next to it, wearing a mask & clutching its chest like the heroine of a romance novel clutches Fabio. Pillars of light are reflecting off the disco horse.

Went to HomeGoods & really REALLY wanted to buy this. No discourse only Disco Horse.

Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did. (Gift Article) “Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

Well, cool.

Christmas Eve night, elves on strike.

So delighted to have a poem in the always great Poetry Northwest! Another hint to all to buy/ subscribe / support our literary magazine! They bring our work to the world! www.poetrynw.org

The elf strike continued until January.