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Samuel Day Wharton

@fakeourway.bsky.social

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(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades some books / some music / some wine / some dogs / some politics Sacramento CA

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15d

Friends, find a few recent poems by me here:

malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2

stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...

wildroofjournal.com

Also, stay tuned for more coming in the fall & early next year!

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 7h

What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry

A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 7h

Here comes the rain.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 13h

Again I’m Asked if I Glow in the Dark
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
by Kathleen Flenniken
from her collection Plume
University of Washington Press

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poem by Kathleen Flenniken: Again I’m asked if I glow in the dark.

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 1d

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From 'Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' (2015)
—Joy Harjo

#poetry #poem #booksky

Fall Song

It is a dark fall day.
The earth is slightly damp with rain.
I hear a jay.
The cry is blue.

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 1d

"Moby"
a typewriter poem
by Emma Hospelhorn
from Grayslake Author Fest!
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"Moby" by Emma Hospelhorn -- Grayslake Author Fest, 6.21.25

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 2d

Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 2d

“You renounced the world so it wouldn’t leave first.” A poem by Richard Siken.

VOLTA

It was getting very late. I waited for a different ending. I held my breath. June, July. The following July. It didn't swerve. I expected it to swerve, that's the promise, the twist at the end, how it pulls against the way it drives, black ice in moonlight. Something happened and I turned toward you. Something happened and you turned away. You didn't turn back. Listen, this is important. I'm sorry I scared you but I didn't die. You don't get to stay mad about it. You were shitty and you doubled down and stayed down, investing in it. You renounced the world so it wouldn't leave first. It worked. If you can't set it down then fall on your knees and feel the weight of it. I was right about everything. If it's any consolation, I'll never forgive you. You're welcome. Let awe end. Just like that. Fair enough.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 3d

A principled stance from HRW 🔥

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 2d

'The Light Continues'
by Linda Gregg

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2d

Laynie Browne

Nine-Fourteenths Sonnet

(Forgive me
This is the only
place I may
speak to you
freely
As conversation
is not what I
intend
in talk)

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Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 2d

“One Frog” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

One Frog

Tonight one frog sings outside. It's no country for rain. I live far away, but I can hear this one frog, it's a loud frog, alone in some creek or other, in a county of two lane roads that twist in the dark. Still there is comfort here because somewhere glimmering among the darkened trees is a lighted window. An old man and his nephew sit inside, whittling. They're making toys. One makes a small cart with rolling wheels; the other makes a dog with a wagging tail. There are no children nearby, not even in the neighboring counties, so one might wonder who the toys are for.
But the old man and his nephew don't seem concerned; they just keep whittling. Occasionally one of them smiles. The shavings go into the fire. The frog sings. The roads twist in the dark. The creek is low. One day it might rain.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Holy hot damn. How have I never seen this before? Beautiful.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Nice, that would be a great song for her! Haven't seen her live, but would love to!

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

You can't get here fast enough.

#iykyk

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Hand Habits - "Lioness (Songs: Ohia Cover)" (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by Run For Cover Records

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Sun June doing Leave the City...

❤️‍🔥

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Sun June - "Leave the City (Magnolia Electric Co. Cover)" (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by Run For Cover Records

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Everything you hated me for / honey there was so much more / I just didn't get busted

-Jason Molina

Listening to the new tribute album.

Damn. Sublime.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

🌶️👀

phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 3d

Ross Gay, for the night crowd

Blowjob

It's just like the tongue, isn't it,
to fold you up
into a tiny origami swan
whose angled wings
splay and whose jutted neck
and beak point out over some expanse
of water a tugboat
hauling the mammoth frigate
upstream the reckless kayaker
tickling an eddy
the currents changing temperature
beneath your feet
as you paddle nowhere except into
the mouth of the one who
made you

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

If you're voting in this CA special election (which you should), I would recommend dropping your ballots off, not mailing them. Here are the locations for Sacramento county:

elections.saccounty.net/votecenters/...

Look up your county's election website for locations!

www.kcra.com/article/wood...

Mail theft impacts election ballot deliveries in Woodland, Yolo County says

Several election ballots for registered voters in Woodland were damaged after a United States Postal Service mail theft incident, according to Yolo County.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Oh boy this is gonna get real weird real fast isn't it?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 3d

When someone (here, the interviewer) doesn't understand that "content" is not Art.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Life goals

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Also, you were a kid. Were you paying attention to the prevalence of autism? No. You were not.

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3d

Goddamn you Ben McCulloch