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INSECTS AND GREEK POETRY sects — I refer, of course, to his poem on the cricket. Most modern European poetry is barren on the subject of crickets, cicada, and insects generally-with the exception of butterflies and bees. Tennyson, indeed, has given attention to dragon flies and other insects. But, as a rule, it is not to European poetry of modern times that we can look for anything of an interesting kind in regard to musical insects. We must go back to the old Greek civilization for that. You know that the old Greeks were endowed far beyond any modern races of the West: their literature, their arts, their conception of life, have never been equaled in later times, and probably will not be equaled again for thousands of years. And it should be interesting to the Japanese student of literature to know that his own people accord with the old Greeks in their appreciation of insect music as one of the great charms of country life. Most of the Greek poems about insects are to be found in what is called the Greek Anthology. Besides the distinet works of ore Anthology.

Lafcadio Hearn

(a small but fascinating lecture on insects in Greek & Japanese poetry…I may have to write on this brilliant little book…)

a woman in a white dress is dancing in front of a crowd with the words " can you feel a brand new day " below her Alt: a woman in a white dress is dancing in front of a crowd with the words " can you feel a brand new day " below her

"Brand New Day" is a balm for me

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a few self-portraits as queer plants! 🪴

Sunday Poem + Prompt | Benjamin Niespodziany | Substack sharing a poem with an accompanying writing prompt every Sunday. Click to read Sunday Poem + Prompt, by Benjamin Niespodziany, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

even if you don't care about the accompanying writing prompt, I share one unreleased poem here every Sunday morning

Recent writers include: Johannes Göransson, Claire Hopple, Tom Snarsky, Vi Khi Nao, Jay Besemer, Zan de Parry, Joanna Ruocco, Todd Dillard, Michael Bazzett

neonpajamas.substack.com

love it, my friend!

I'm not much of a villain, so it took me a while to submit...but the first one started with a @petermurphy.bsky.social Getaway prompt, & the second one from @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social's beautiful prompt deck.

Thanks, @charlesjensen.bsky.social, for giving these nasty little poems a home.

"I lure more crows to the window
with trinkets of silver and stone, bid them
to follow as I walk each night."

DONNA! 😍

Hegel on Bruno’s form and matter in all things (oh, but also frogs):

“What was at first seed becomes blade, then ear, then bread, chyle, blood, seed of animal, an embryo, a human being, a corpse, then once more earth, stone, or other substance; from sand and water frogs are produced.”

can confirm a blessing of ducks 🦆

lol too real too real 😭

Wrote a poem about Spring for our town paper (note: apparently the website can't handle any formatting or indenting, but sort of charming to see it "stripped down"):

stratfordcrier.com/april-fires/

praise 🙌

it's the walking for me honey depression meds in the form of birdsong and exhaustion! (also depression meds)

HBD, handsome! 🤗

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Some of this week’s studies / new blog post on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

The poem.

A Japanese government worker stands in a bear mask.

A digital lumberjack cuts down the woods. An aurora of polar bears wait within the trees to attack.

The book cover of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

My new poem "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is now published at the gorgeous Spring issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social

sixthfinch.com

Let us say AMEN 🙌

Creative Nonfiction: A Rental in the Poconos by Michael Todd Cohen Matt responds in the same spellbound way people mention imaginary places of great importance: The Ivory Tower, The Castle in the Sky, Helm’s Deep.

original essay in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/c...

cover of a book with water color wash in blue and green, a small drawing of a tree bending in the wind at the center; titles and copy read: BENDING IN THE BREEZE The Bending Genres Anthology Edited by Amy Marques & Robert Vaughan

printed text: Michael Todd Cohen (italics) A Rental in the Poconos (end italics) I. At 7pm on Saturday evening at an air...blasts rip through quiet twilight. Some...nivalesque ding! as the bullet richoets...

honored to be in the @bendinggenres.bsky.social anthology, with "A Rental in the Poconos" about guns and queerness and escape...

(deep thanks to @writesloud.bsky.social and @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for originally publishing this work and to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for celebrating it)

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absolutely LOVE 😍

I stole Taco Bell's IP and tied my name and life's work to it as a joke and enough people looked at me like wtf to call it a platform

a friend asked what if fem magneto
#xmen

Yes!! This is giving the murky mood-magic of The Rescuers in the best way.

grateful to be in @literaryhub.bsky.social today, responding to another essay while also thinking more broadly about reviews, art, honesty, and motherhood. 💛

digital pencil portrait sketch of a turkey in black and white; he has a bright inquisitive eye. the work is signed "sp."

saw a turkey today waiting at our front door for the rain to stop
#birds #birding

screenshot of gmail "nudge" reading, "Sent 3 days ago. Follow up?"

gmail really doesn't know a single thing about sending out a manuscript...