20 I wish my friend a happy spring& he says Snow is fallingYeah snow is always fallinggenerally & everywhereif you’re in one of those scenesunder a dome with plastic treesa plastic sled or wag…

he says Snow is falling
Yeah snow is always falling
generally & everywhere
if you’re in one of those scenes
under a dome with plastic trees
a plastic sled or wagon
a neat little house
& somebody shakes it

— @shannacompton.bsky.social on day 20

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A Place Called Eggs An offhand remark you make reminds meOf the IV plunging into the back of my hand This thing I needed to birth the idea of youThis thing that left me black and blue for weeks Yes, it was worth it — …

This thing I needed to birth the idea of you
This thing that left me black and blue for weeks

Yes, it was worth it — Yes, it hurt a lot
Nothing much plonking between my brain cogs

— @nicolebrett.bsky.social on day 20

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James Joyce C’mon Evie! Let’s see the world together! Let’s get married! Evie sees no ring. Evie’s father wouldn’t approve. A disgruntled drunk with a violent streak. Evie’s brothers left her to do the caretak…

At movies how Frank makes her laugh. How in the dark he always smells like salt and seawater.

Frank says it’s a boat and it’s big. It’s morning.

— @stevenrkarl.bsky.social #poem on day 20

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FLOATING HEAD WITH HORNS Using a wooden bowl is the same as eating off the floor From here I can tell everyone steps in the same place  when they step down from the stairs Fair is foul and foul is Farrah The lower right si…

Is it true that someone can be ahead of her time

or do I misunderstand time

do i misunderstand their time

Quarter sleeves don’t do it for me

I need monster sleeves and a shave between paws

— Farrah Field on day 20

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To. Fro. Script for wind Taking butterfly breaths The house is shivering A wooden sword unpeels Talking to you In beluga gloss Inert electrical Oud Adverbly actions Action themselves Too far up the noses An…

Unseen star cloud rolls
The thunderpoems come
Numberless and numerous
Sweet as dreams and as far

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16 i left the state and this changed the moon, it changed the poem, it set a lonely star fixed low in the visual field for a long time and then a frowning sliver lit at the top of a long invisible lin…

i left the state and this changed the moon, it changed the poem, it set a lonely star fixed low in the visual field for a long time and then a frowning sliver lit at the top of a long invisible line.

— JJ Rowan, poem 16 on day 20

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our feelings drop from the trees what happened at my consolation knee deep in virgina  bluebells, in floodwater  dressing at best like an American dagger  our feelings drop from the trees  surprise  isn’t …

what happened at my consolation

knee deep in virgina

bluebells, in floodwater

— @jentynes.bsky.social on day 20 again!

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the real bonanza I am embodying the next  verpa bohemica before my neurons can acknowledge satisfaction  I am full stop for the wrinkled growth before the real bonanza comes  I have a diabolical lip&…

I have extended my invitation

into the metallurgic future

I am fully contained in this

premature briar

when I am

telepathically crooning

— @jentynes.bsky.social on day 20

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scavenger There was a child just waitingto be taken, so I took him.I called him many, many namestrying to arrive at the one.In the end he drifted between several and in and out of this world always a cygnet …

There was a child just waiting
to be taken, so I took him.
I called him many, many names
trying to arrive at the one.

In the end he drifted
between several and in and
out of this world always
a cygnet among drakelings.

— @kikikasch.bsky.social on day 20

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Famous Last Lines 1.I have emotional motion sickness.I remember when JFK Jr.’splane went missing.I’ve painted myself into a corner.I am beyond sick at this.I hung a maiden on my pocketgoing in a rush to answer the p…

I left my job. I left the city.
I left expectations and demands
I have for my body.
I added some sax. And here we are.
That song is quintessential Tulsa.

— @bexklaver.bsky.social on day 19

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Prenaissance Frond moves in hand Re do to do re Perigree bouquets Littleno forest Partichord Specimen fern Made to be tossed Tossed for tossfeel Ouija body ouis Matte planchette Even in your presence Your prese…

Even in your presence
Your presence
Goes on without you

Transparent then translucent
The dowser nods
Fleck by fleck
At the sign of the hole in the word

— @jaredwhite123.bsky.social on day 19

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Once at a party, a girl stopped making out with me because I started talking about Bjork.

I regret nothing, Bjork before bitches.

19 A few days agoone of the deer put her headthrough the little fence I’d put upto keep her from eatingthe fledgling daffodilsShe was definitely tryingWhat do you think you’re doing?I asked, which sta…

What do you think you’re doing?
I asked, which startled her
& she threw her head back
to the left in a big Not I gesture

taking the fence panel
with her

They’re nearly blind you know
& impossible to reason with

— @shannacompton.bsky.social on day 19

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Boys Watching Boys: Idiot Moves Once at a party I bragged about making out with a girl from Iceland. I said she was friends with Bjork. No one cared. Once at a party Moby kept going around asking everyone if they knew who he was.…

Once at a party I bragged about making out with a girl from Iceland. I said she was friends with Bjork. No one cared.

— @stevenrkarl.bsky.social on day 19

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PRINCE VALIUM Are you stuck in an open pavilion in a what should I do with my life sort of way Were you asking that question last year You didn’t forget to feed the birds you simply didn’t do it Where are they d…

Are you stuck in an open pavilion

in a what should I do with my life sort of way

Were you asking that question last year

—Farrah Field, on day 19

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plummeting each inch out of the frigid dark is met by volte-face.the coming frost will down plum tulip, white magnoliaa cool rebuke to flowers: you think you’re holy cuzyou dress like the pope? or it ma…

each inch out of the frigid dark is met by volte-face.
the coming frost will down plum tulip, white magnolia
a cool rebuke to flowers

— @kikikasch.bsky.social on day 19

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Lessons Learned When your boyfriend calls himself a Marxist misfitdon’t say it’s cute; Marxist misfits loathe being cute. When he reenacts falling forward to the floor andcatching himself in a springy push-up to l…

When your boyfriend calls himself a Marxist misfit
don’t say it’s cute; Marxist misfits loathe being cute.

— @bexklaver.bsky.social on day 18

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the snail the little penis thing went insidebecause it was scared, and when it wasn’tit left a mess. even its antennaewere little penis things, four fleshy little nubs fully retractable when scared. ey…

eye stalks and smell stalks acting
like human gonads in cold
weather.
— @kikikasch.bsky.social on day 18

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18 I tend to look at the clockonce or twice a weekwhen the numbersare my birthday.Sometimes three times.It means nothing.In the woods todaythe clock thing didn’t happenbecause I’m practicing not looki…

I tend to look at the clock
once or twice a week
when the numbers
are my birthday.

Sometimes three times.
It means nothing.

— @shannacompton.bsky.social on day 18

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Thomas Mann It had been raining, and it was raining. Everything around me was happening in a language I didn’t understand. Often, I would just listen to the rain the words floating around me but never sticking…

It had been raining, and it was raining. Everything around me was happening in a language I didn’t understand

— @stevenrkarl.bsky.social on day 18

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Tidally Locked: A Bedtime Story Long ago but not too far away, Moon was a marble spinning much faster than it does today. Earth tugged on Moon with all its might until rocky bulges formed on one side. Now Moon was no longer a mar…

Moon’s face is always gazing down on Earth, which makes Earth happy.

Scientists cannot yet measure the difference between desire and gravity.

Famously yet mysteriously, Moon tugs on Earth, too, and moves the seas around.

— @bexklaver.bsky.social on day 18

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April 18 Tiny Opera~ for Page LoudonTelephone rang shoe buckled bicylebicycle clickclickclick crashed I attempted a deep squat my leg skittered out behind me I pulled myself up hanging onto an embarrassing …

I attempted a deep squat my leg skittered out behind me I pulled myself up hanging onto an embarrassing item yelped I’m okay I’m okay to no one tweet tweet sang the goddamn bird

— @rebeccaloudon.bsky.social on day 18

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Dear John It’s over before it even begins. Light shreds across the sky. I walk and walk and then dip, flee even as the scene gets good. Ginger and Danielle and I watch our shadows on graffiti, figure o…

I am confronted by the terror of the world. I found two pennies
on the ground, slick and dark, and I saw it as a sign, not a warning.

—Katie Jean Shinkle, on day 18

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We’re past the muddy middle, the pack has thinned a bit, but the daily drafts are still flying on the Bloof blog.

I’m betting some dropouts return this coming week. The pull of the group poem chat is irrrrrresistible.

click any link! gold!

17 Run it through a filterto clarify your thoughtsDark, light, midtonea muddle we call a garage saleWe slip shadows to each otheracross the mismatched table settingsA group of misgivings and sentiment…

We slip shadows to each other
across the mismatched table settings

A group of misgivings & sentiments
arrive, hang their jackets on the stool seats

& order double everythings
while you look btw the rough-hewn rafters

& yr hands

— @shannacompton.bsky.social day 17

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Noir Interlude There are a lot of ways      you can order numbers     There are a lot of ways         numbers get disordered:      clumsy fingers; thick head      But there is….       so much ringing             …

and when you put the phone to your ear it is voiceless

just ringing unless you can consider the ringing its own kinda voice

there are doors and windows day-glo colors misplaced nights murder in the air

— @stevenrkarl.bsky.social 17

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coupledom a waterfall married TV static circa 1979 circa 3amfor years they discussed privacy and downtime and the role of tourism in island economies      they were content content to be without      they co…

a waterfall married TV static circa 1979 circa 3am
for years they discussed privacy and downtime and the role
of tourism in island economies they were content
content to be without

— @kikikasch.bsky.social #poem for day 17

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FRIEND IN TWO SWEATERS A seagull named Ruth says humans can’t handle their own desires or energy sources Are you a widow if you’re married to a dead guy Try to solve an eastern problem in a western way Snow we left behin…

Yes we can do the fifteen minute version at the Met

What do you know about fifteen minutes

an entire family can come apart in fifteen minutes

—Farrah Field #poem for day 17

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Rabbit Holes & Creepy Trolls Whole signs is German Placidus is Frenchand then there’s Vedic astrology with an unbroken lineage for thousands of years but according to them I’m a Scorpio moon and I don’t like it Chiron cazimi t…

Having ten houses is a subset of hoarding disorder
a conquering-to-the-point-of-psychosis thing

“Somebody’s gotta be happy”
said the woman who gives alien-lizard vibes
in the voice of Marie Antoinette

— @bexklaver.bsky.social day 17
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April 17 Shajareh Tayyebeh– Elementary girls’ school in Minab, Iranbombed during “Operation Epic Fury” February 28, 2026Panic painted gentian arrows on our feetbetween the carpal and the sour toea mol…

count on happiness as revolutionary
because the beast is at the door
carnivorous two headed
the secrets we were promised as dangerous
girls lying low in the tall grass
imagine the animal’s astonishment
finding us swimming there

— @rebeccaloudon.bsky.social on day 17

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