Thank you for reading.

So happy to have a poem up at Dusie, The Tuesday Poem. How many bean poems is too many? Don’t answer that. I don’t think I’m at five yet. Anyway, it’s about a lot of things.

I fear the “truly value” part is missing and Gen-AI is the shoddiest of excuses for the devaluing. Layers and layers of devaluing, then.

Purple crocuses emerging from underneath a ground covering of dead, brown leaves.

Believe, Montreal. Believe.

Saw some sidewalk benches being reinstalled for spring. Perhaps the bears had been using them in hibernation.

So sad to hear that Hampshire will close. A special place, as I got to see through the eyes of someone then very close to me who attended. A big loss. And I didn’t know this, but wow:

“Hampshire is the alma mater of the filmmaker Ken Burns, who made his first documentary movie as a student there.”

Photo of woods in Vermont after a thunderstorm. Sun is setting so the clouds are orange pink and mist is rising up from a brook that is out of frame, making the leafless trees all pretty

sky doing sky things

Sky gonna sky!

Historical illustration showing four fossilized leaves of ancient conifer plants labeled as "Albertia" from the Vosges sandstone. The fossils are embedded in irregular stone slabs with distinct detailed leaf venation. Two leaves (A. Braunie) are positioned on the top left and bottom left, exhibiting broad, elongated leaflets. Two others (B. Speciosa) are on the top right and bottom right, showing slightly narrower and more separated leaflets. The lithograph is from an 1844 monograph focused on fossil plants, capturing the structure and texture of these ancient conifer specimens in brown tones against a white background.

🗿 Monographie des plantes fossiles du grès bigarré de la chaine des Vosges /.
Leipzig: G. Engelmann, 1844..

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Poetry Month. You know what to do.

One of many reasons Gen-AI can’t do it. :)

Last-minute tips from our contest judge!

Sarah Wolfson won first place in 2025 and, as per tradition, will be judging this year's contest!

Today is the last chance to sign up! Don't miss out!
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So good.

Love this, Phillip! Congrats!

I ate a cookie first — while waiting for coffee. Did I do it right?

Love this!

*must have (I mean!)

There were so many variations! I loved the tent one, too. And the one where we all stood around the parachute and held an edge and shook it so tennis balls bounced like popcorn in the middle.

Whenever I see those NASA parachutes helping the capsule splash down, I think of all the parachute games we played in gym class in the 1980s. There’s some harmonious yet inverse utility relationship between the two parachute types. It pleases me.

Just realizing that since the Artemis II Crew are all Gen-Xers, they — too — much have watched live on classroom TVs as Challenger exploded. Happy they are home. Amazed at all of it. Still stressed when watching rocket launches, especially in those early minutes.

Text on a yellow background “The Fiddlehead proudly announces our 2025 Poetry Contest winner Melanie Power for ‘Ode to the Bakeapple.’ Read the winning poem in Issue 307. Nest to the text is a headshot of Melanie Power wearing a yellow jacket with a red bandana around her neck.

We’re thrilled to announce that Melanie Power is the winner of our 2025 Poetry Contest and $2 000 prize! Her poem, “Ode to the Bakeapple,” will appear in the upcoming Spring issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 307).

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My photo shows a ceramic storage jar, with a narrow base and a broad rounded body. It has two thick loop handles attached high on the shoulders to the neck. The surface is mostly pale cream, with dark brown neck/spout. On the front is a large circular dark brown panel painted with a large white daisy-like flower motif. It has many long narrow petals radiating outwards from a round orange center. The jar is visibly reconstructed from fragments, with fine crack lines running across the surface.

Minoan amphora with floral design.

3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸

From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

I want a Bohemian Waxwing swarm encounter!!!

Gorgeous photos!!!

“The Nation” Is Siding With Humanity As unregulated, profit-driven AI threatens our economy, climate, and safety, we can’t let tech-bro profiteers define our future.

Jobs are threatened, children’s brains are already marinating in AI slop, and whose privacy is being invaded by an ever-tightening surveillance state. So why has Congress done basically nothing?
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Depluralise a movie:

The Way I Was

I am deeply moved by this photo. Koch’s caption: “First braids to leave Earth orbit. (unconfirmed).” Something about how the shot actually puts in the picture the oft-cited little girl who always dreamed.

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National Poetry Month : Jessi MacEachern, Hanging Oblivion   I am uncertain there could be a benefit to exiting the home. I am once again holding us back. You stand, like...

Happy to have a new poem with @chaudierebooks.bsky.social c/o @robmclennan.bsky.social for poetry month. Read “Hanging Oblivion” here:

We are out the door / into the snowy street / & crossing at green intervals. / The well-intentioned path is a hellish one.

How I feel about the phase of spring we’re in: