@amberadamspoet.bsky.social
Poet. Becoming Ribbons (Unicorn Press). 2025 NEA Fellow.
my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
11.02.2025 20:06 — 👍 55125 🔁 7151 💬 1095 📌 341Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
06.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 149816 🔁 27817 💬 6405 📌 2270i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
05.02.2025 03:16 — 👍 66519 🔁 10341 💬 1696 📌 363When people write books about the downfall of America my hope is that they will have at least a chapter on Citizens United.
03.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even the best laid plans
Don't get laid enough.
Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.
—Louise Glück
A Beginner's Guide to Endings So some mice decide to try climbing a mountain. An unexpected wedding guest leads the dance. Nothing pleases your father. A bundle of letters is found deep in a trunk. The soul of the old dog won't leave her master. The last task is to bring back a burning branch. A jug comes out of the darkness; take a swig and pass it on. The entrance is guarded by a beast that can take many forms. And this is why willow trees bend down. People say they saw worms crawling from the ground. In the courtyard, next to a beggar, an eagle drops a crown. The horse can go no further. The god has to be tricked to take the world back on his shoulder. It follows then that reality is intermittent. Goodbye mother, farewell home. And that is why the girl put on armor. And you and I have always known each other. And that is why the stars are drunkards.
Damn Dean Young for the entire structure of this poem that leads us so carefully, so accumulatively, up up up towards the negation. Mysticism, absurdity, fable, tenderness: Young’s ensemble. Landing in that anaphora of three “And”s at the end. ⚡️Adding to subtract. Incredible 🥹 🫀
06.12.2024 03:38 — 👍 114 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 2
My Daughter Asks Me to Write an Honest Poem And when I ask what she means she says a poem where nothing impossible happens in it, just the truth, and I say OK and put her in this poem and she sprouts forty two robin wings down her neck and back and legs and she says why would you do that, that’s not true and I say OK I say Sorry and I put an orchard in her arms, a huge orchard, with rows of pear trees, and it’s spring and a million white blossoms fur her skin like snow and she says DAD she says THIS ISN’T REAL and I say I am sorry my love I didn’t mean to it’s just that but it’s too late, she’s gone upstairs, I hear her feet march across the floorboards, soft claps like a dozen cages closing in a bird shop that specializes in songless birds, and once more winter settles softly in my mind, I walk my orchard’s empty rows and remember how full my arms used to be when my daughter was young, how busy my hands, my sad, empty hands reaching for this liar’s pen.
one of two new poems in @ex-puritan.bsky.social today among so many, many friends!
"...she says a poem
where nothing impossible happens in it, just the truth,
and I say OK and put her in this poem and she sprouts
forty two robin wings down her neck and back and legs..."
Most of the time I feel like Luke Skywalker in the trash compactor with the walls closing in but Han, Leia and Chewy are like, "Darth Vader actually has some good points if you listen to him" and C3PO and R2D2 aren't answering because they're vaping and listening to a Joe Rogan podcast about crypto.
26.11.2024 00:31 — 👍 6774 🔁 852 💬 49 📌 1
