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Sam Rasnake

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Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm pleased to have a new poem at @harpyhybrid.bsky.social - "All That Disappears"
"Rivers, sunsets, mountains, highways find their end –"

Special thanks to the editors.
www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works...

All That Disappears – Harpy Hybrid Review

www.harpyhybridreview.org

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 2h

B.B. King and The Crusaders, “Never Make a Move Too Soon”
Live, Royal Festival Hall, London
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Never Make A Move Too Soon (Live At Royal Festival Hall, London/1981)

YouTube video by The Crusaders - Topic

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 2h

At Land / Maya Deren, dir., 1944

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 2h

Everytime the tree works the leaves dream

Everytime I carve the dead wing my name
in the dark lamp of the outhouse
I said everytime I cut my name
in the old wood rotten as a tugboat
I know I am always with you
Frank Stanford
#writer #poetry

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4h

‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the
snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the
living and the dead.’ ~
James Joyce , The Dead. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Winter landscape, Pekka Halonen.

Winter Landscape of snow and trees, painting.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14h

All is well in Pajamastan tonight—staying in and settled in with
🫖 tea,
📚 a pile of books thishigh,
✉️ letter writing,
🎻and this exquisite Leclair sonata, which is a fine distraction from doomscrolling (highly recommend!).
#ClassicalMusic #TGIF

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J.-M. Leclair: Sonate en mi mineur, I. Gavotte | Théotime Langlois de Swarte, William Christie

YouTube video by harmonia mundi music

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Zero Sum Game 🍁 @classicvibe.bsky.social · 14h

Another clear nite, Moon watching allniter
@stevewfolds.bsky.social
@grbenny.bsky.social
@lisasass.bsky.social

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Pat Metheny & Nils Landgren

YouTube video by krb

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 2h

Metheny is my favorite guitarist.

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 3h

DESIRE PARTY (a visual poem) (2021/2025) (c) Robert Frede Kenter

#asemic #glitch #vispo #fields #rectangles #art

Black and white collage of various abstracted elements: bodies, faces, landscapes) a visual poem called DESIRE PARTY, created in 2021 & completed in 2025. 12 scenes from a nightmare. (C) Robert Frede Kenter.

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 1d

What a great day to grab Cowboy Jamboree's PRINE PRIMED, and anthology of grit lit incited by the songwriting of John Prine for only $9.99: a.co/d/fiGglDa

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

ida faubert
AUGUST

from the french-haitian's collection, Island Heart, translated by danielle legros georges.

Autumn

The leaves fall, it's Autumn
The tall boxwood trees perfume the air.
A bird's song in the clear sky
Seems a monotonous wail.

I think of those eyes so precious to me
While the roses wither
And I foresee leaden days
With all their bitterness.

The darkness approaching the terrace
Brings with it night's coolness
And I recall hopelessly
The sorrows that just won't die.

The breeze makes a soft sound
Through the dry leaves
But all I hear on the fallen flowers
Are love's footsteps fleeing.

And I stay here, thinking
Despite it all, waiting, for joy
But a vague doubt all at once
Makes me afraid.

I understand my sadness now.
Your heart is leaving me
And this autumn
All my love will weep in me.

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 25d

Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark, Simon and Schuster

#poetry

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 12h

SickElixir by Blawan

music.apple.com/us/album/sic...

#electronicmusic #experimentalmusic

SickElixir by Blawan on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 14 Songs

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

the rest of my days I spend
wandering: wondering
what, anyway,
was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

- Galway Kinnell, "The Bear"

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20h

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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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Lally

love love love — don’t
say it —
don’t say anything they
can repeat and exploit

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

"I’ve employed the reflective voice in some memoir pieces, but often I find that when my “present self” enters the picture, events can get reinterpreted and their significance diluted. I strive instead to keep the blinders on." This week's author, Mary Ann McGuigan: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Mary Ann McGuigan - SmokeLong Quarterly

I love the title of this essay—“The Promise.” Of course, we don’t know if this promise is kept or broken. Were you ever tempted to answer this, or was it important to you to leave this particular ques...

www.smokelong.com

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 3h

“Freddy’s basketball in the garden, that Grampa Earl kicked into the woods—“Why don’t they teach that goddamn kid to take care of his stuff?”—because the mower wouldn’t start.” — @tcboudreau.bsky.social

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Keepsakes - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Lena Polishko on Unsplash by Timothy Boudreau Freddy’s green lizard race car with a pink tongue painted on the hood, pulled from under the couch when Grammy Ruth scrambled to find her pearl e...

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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 6h

Bog Lady in Silkeborg Museum

How long you turned, sluggish in your sour bed, asleep inside a living bog, your hair amending slowly orange. Did you cry out? Or accept it as your fate— a young woman more likely to appease an angry god? Were they gentle, the men who hung you from a tree, cocooned you…

Bog Lady in Silkeborg Museum

How long you turned, sluggish in your sour bed, asleep inside a living bog, your hair amending slowly orange. Did you cry out? Or accept it as your fate— a young woman more likely to appease an angry god? Were they gentle, the men who hung you from a tree, cocooned you in sheepskin, then watched you sink into the mire?

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

Ended up getting too busy and forgetting to post, but this was my work space for a few minutes today 🙏💙 chill friday FTW 🙌

Desk with orange Stanley cup and stickers, sunglasses, Robert Hass’s A Little Book on Forms, Read Write Edit Cite poster, and Poetry is Not a Luxury print from Big Baby Small Press. Also a punctuation poster, made by me ✨

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 1d

It is the scientist whose truth requires a language purged of every trace of paradox; apparently the truth which the poet utters can be approached only in terms of paradox.

-- Cleanth Brooks

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 23h

John Lodge RIP - bassist and singer with Moody Blues
"I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band), my favorite of his songs.
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THE MOODY BLUES -- I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)

YouTube video by Esferadevidro

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 1d

Honored to learn that WHIPSAW won the CNY Book Award for Poetry!

Many thanks to judge Tami Haaland and to the wonderful folks at the YMCA Writer’s Center. Congrats to all the 2025 winners and finalists.

Gratitudes to Kristine Snodgrass & Lynne Knight at Anhinga Press for believing in this book.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 1d

Terrific news, Suzanne. It's an amazing book. A very deserving award.

a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .

ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 1d

John Prine, “Hello in There”

My favorite Prine song. It’s haunted me since I first heard it live years ago.
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youtu.be/sp6lnXPqFHc

Hello in There (2020 Remaster)

YouTube video by John Prine - Topic

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