Highly recommend you check out Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture Arch of Hysteria, the inspiration for McKinley Johnson’s poem “Rapture is a painful thing,” the final poem in our #SummerRiot series:
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hips skyward, limbs trailing behind,
shoulder ripped from socket by the drag;
friction makes you burn, a reverse comet,
a smoking censer chain-dragged through the sky
—McKinley Johnson, with a fierce ekphrasis #SummerRiot poem to close out our summer. Wishing y’all joy, rest, resistance. ☄️
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🦉🙏💙💙 So glad for your poem in the #SummerRiot company, Jacqui!!!
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Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.
I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.
—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥
@jacquiz.bsky.social
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the swell of distant horse-shit & crop-rot
diesel fumes & freshly mown grass
& lo!
how the breeze comes on
like an afterglow
hopelessly blue
tragic
—Danielle McMahon, with just the perfect #SummerRiot poem today ☀️
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Beauty is both ways,
All ways & always.
—Nicholas Viglietti splashing open our final week of #SummerRiot poems! 🌴🌊
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Catch up on the latest at Moist! 💦 #SummerRiot
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If we’re lucky,
if the water
is clear enough,
if the light is right […]
—Andy Fogle with our #SummerRiot poem today!
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imma die bout my queer niggas cause we
deserve a chance to live fruitfully
—Will Diggs, with two fresh #SummerRiot beauties this morning
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Season of salmonberry then currant
raspberry
thimbleberry cherry almost
blackberry
—Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning!
@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social
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I too, have more than
one name
I too, shift into
the transitioning season
—Kit Steitz, with our #SummerRiot 🍊 today!
@kitikins.bsky.social
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the best conversations happen in a tavern but
the revolution doesn’t happen because you got drunk
—Chris Corlew with our fire poems this morning, dear ones #SummerRiot 🔥
@thecorlew.bsky.social
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I love the work a kiss can do. The way
it leaves language
harmless, temporary.
The way it erases a whole history of distance.
—Amorak Huey, with a new poem in our #SummerRiot series 🌧️🪿
@amorak.bsky.social
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I want to collect all the love that loves me back and fill a house with it.
A new species of love that grows when exposed to sunlight.
—Nico Green, with a lovely polyam love poem this morning #SummerRiot 🌱💙
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It was always the mountain
and me. Paris Mountain.
The woods were mine:
tree tops, rocks, creeks,
space between. I topped
for the first time on leaves
straddling felled trees.
—Tara Burke, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning 🍃
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while he used candles, i moused
computers, i watched tv. during covid, i witnessed
my relatives pray for the vaccine already in my body
waters away. watching is another kind of pain.
that’s why they use it as torture, too.
—Thanh Bui, with a riotous new poem for #SummerRiot today! 📺🔥
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Posing for a selfie in the museum,
you pulled me in close for a kiss.
Motion sensors disengaged, alarmed wire quieted,
the security guard on a lunch break.
—Pam Yve Simon
Take a poem break for @pamyve.bsky.social’s new beauty in our #SummerRiot series! 🦋
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“you will, at times
find yourself in defiance
accidental or no
of grand celestial plans”
—Bridget Gordon, with a balm of a new poem today in our #SummerRiot series ✨
@thaumatropia.bsky.social
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Yep. It's happening.
#wrestling #prowrestling #britwres #summerriot #letsgoooo
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“i am through with structures
that seek only to support
their kin”
—nat raum
new #SummerRiot beauty by nat raum today! 🔥
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“Better
is the suggestion to pay attention
to right now […]”
—Matthew Murrey, with a new #SummerRiot poem this morning! ☀️
@mytwords.bsky.social
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The form of this poem gave me creative thrills: that feeling of discovering the structure before the content registers and needing to reread and reread because it's just so exquisitely done.
💖 @djvorreyer.bsky.social #SummerRiot
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Please note that *LUSH autocorrected to *last on this sleepy editor. ☔️
We have so many more lovely poems coming in the next weeks, straight through August, in #SummerRiot!
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“But I’ve found here, in
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”
—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
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And this morning, it's @martin65.bsky.social turn to undo me with this perfect kiss of a poem.
#SummerRiot indeed.
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“But this morning two sparring sparrows flashed
past my dull head into a wet azalea […]”
—Catherine Rockwood, into the (meta)physical wilds with a new #SummerRiot poem for us! 🔥
@martin65.bsky.social
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Stunning new poem from one of our #SummerRiot contributors 🌳🔥
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It is always such a joy to be in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social. Its editors have a keen sense for the *moment*, and apparently now is the moment for this little poem of mine. Be sure to check it out along with the rest of the #SummerRiot series!
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“I don’t know why I always imagined
the fields in dusk—the little flame-
tailed foxes dragging their torches
behind.”
Reyzl Grace, with a gorgeous, new #SummerRiot poem 🦊🔥
@reyzlgrace.bsky.social
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“I teach you to look head-on at those looking at you, to not, in returning
gazes, drop your palette or your work.”
Megan McDermott, with a sparkling new poem this morning in #SummerRiot! 🎨
@megmcdermott92.bsky.social
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