she has
legends on her lips
and myths in her marrow

she is a story
that cannot stop
telling itself

#poetry

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Something at the window sleep pine and new sage wake in the night the window something cold, something gone, something remembered for a moment we run again dash and drop in the wind, the wet grass the winter’s dark ring f…

#writingcommunity #poetrybooks #newpoems
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Shiny pale cream colored mushroom with a reddish orange top and a translucent stem is growing on the side of rough bark covered with small green lichen.

Little mushroom grows out of bark covered in lichens #FungiFriday #mycology #mushrooms #nature #photography

AI Days Ahead
#AI #economics #wealthgap #oligarchy #hippies
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One Day Late Here is the most sacred Gregorian chant of the liturgical year, “Haec dies” (“This is the day”), to be sung on Easter. If this doesn’t pull you from your jittery electronic lifestyle back to a forg…

#classicalmusic #gregorian #medieval #sacredmusic
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A Word from Dan Rather and Gregg Allman Let’s take a break from our regular stuff and hear a clip from Dan Rather’s Gregg Allman interview, where Gregg talks about early days when the Allman Brothers Band was struggling just …

Gregg Allman says ...
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#allmanbrothers #danrather #beatles #1960smusic #1970smusic

Against a black backdrop of a night sky at sea, a tiny mouse, gently paddles a tea cup with a teaspoon. The tea cup is fine pink & blue floral china and the mouse is a pink eared, tiny brown mouse. The teaspoon is older, silver, and finely made. The ocean is a dark blue greenish brown color. The mouse feels quite small compared to the vastness of the sea/ocean that surrounds her.

In case anyone needs to see a mouse paddling a teacup, here you go…

🚀

spring buds…
starting to be
over already

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (buds)

Hi Emily. Quit my US job and been on the road for 8 years -- 19 countries hitchhiked so far, with year-long job stops in Germany, Tokyo, and Guanajuato, Mexico. Written 5 novels and 2 books of poetry along the way. Hoping to hitchhike Colombia after a regular stop in New Orleans. Good life 🙃

Feed your head with two free samples (woodstock at end) Two samples from Two Dreams and Two Hollows. A mashup of realism and anti-realism, seekers and bums, epiphanies great and small, in a tapestry of stories by Faulkner-Wisdom Prize finalist Gary Gaut…

Feed your head
#literaryfiction #newfiction #kindledeals #writingcommunity #shortstorie #newbooks
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A full moon hangs low in a dusk sky in spring…in the distance far in the background, a couple walks up a meandering path… on the right is a forest with predominantly birch trees, & in the foreground lush fields sprout Spring’s small white flowers …mist hangs over the scene from the foreground to the background… on the left in the mid & background are singular trees… shades of soft, blue and green and grey and white comprise the palette

‘Dusk landscape with birches,' Anna Billing (1849-1927)

Street tacos in Mexico City tonight 🙂

fata morgana—
the island
learning to float
#haiku #poetry

Paulina’s Mythic Vision Paxtle. A river in central Mexico. An ecosystem. Or in Paulina Mendoza’s small book of that title, an extended, semi-narrative prose poem with a sonnet-sized paragraph per page for effortless flow.…

Another #latinapoet #mexicanpoet #poetrybooks #prosepoems #writingcommunity #literarycriticism
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spring equinox
for a breath the sun holds still
then tips towards light

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Equinox

#photography Nature By Michelle
@nature-by-michelle.bsky.social

the pedestrian crossing
flickers amber
while your pulse
stutters against my palm
waiting

#Photography Saul Leiter

They really made illustrations count back then!

After Meeting Opal’s Mother In the excellent post-apocalyptic adult hippie fairy tale, Alice, not long after Meeting Opal’s mother, this was happening back in New Arcadia … xxx Lonnie the kleptomaniac was crying s…

What next?
#alice #garygautier #literaryfiction #fantasy #kindledeals #writingcommunity #visionaryfiction #metaphysicalfiction
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Gabbard pressed on whether Iran posed “imminent threat” YouTube video by C-SPAN

#ossoff #iran #iranwar #trump #tulsigabbard
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Unmoored

Global Skin, Tribal Bones,
By our design we roam,
But ever half at home.

Adrift on global tide,
But moored by culture's pride,
Our anchor holds inside.

#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art

Dreams, Hollows, and a Clipped Review “A motherlode of new stories and past work, a veritable smorgasbord of Gautier’s work. In his prose, he does dialogue better than most, which may be what I like about him best, and ther…

#literaryfiction #writingcommunity #bookreviews #twodreamsandtwohollows #garygautier #kindledeals
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take the road
but leave
the map

#Photography Jackie Jones
@mookyshi91.bsky.social

she keeps
her hands
clean—
makes prunes
of them

until they
hardly remember
how to hold
anything
at all

#poetry

Flowers or Nothing At a small bookstore in Mexico City, I found a little poetry book, Flores o Nada (Flowers or Nothing), by Laura Cecilia Cárdenas. Nice, and just at my Spanish level. What I noticed most was the ebb…

#poetry #latinapoets #mexicanwriters #chapbooks #literarycriticism #writingcommunity
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lightning crashes hourly thunder rolls endlessly buildings detonate next to me -- I wish for magic © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

lightning crashes hourly
thunder rolls endlessly
buildings detonate next to me
-- I wish for magic

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#WritingCommunity #poetry #vss365 #vssmagic #15WordPoet #thingstowriteabout

Now in New York and Online Worldwide Have a look. Pass it on. Free e-copies for a limited time if you want one and can post an honest Amazon review. (drggautier@gmail.com). * * * Click covers for links * * *                           …

Now
#newfiction #shortstories #independentbookstores #newyorkbookstores #kindledeals #literaryfiction #writingcommunity #garygautier #twodreamsandtwohollows
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after nirvana
everything still
to do

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (nirvana)