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Ann E Michael
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#poet --Poet, retired academic writing coach, gardener, blogger. Three books of poetry, 6 chapbooks: www.annemichael.blog Not ambitious. Curious about the world. Working on being more of a mensch.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 23h
Autumn colors look lovely against turquoise!
#Autumn #sweetgum #liquidambar #turquoise
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 1d
Been there. Yep. Done that.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 2d
🌱 #ceramic #autumn
The ceramic head finds itself draped in walnut branch and foliage.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 3d
Because snake goddess queens are stunning.
#snake #goddess #folklore #turkey #Kurdish #Anatolia
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 4d
🌱 yeah autumn.
#autumn #vivid #leaf
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 8d
Back home: Pennsylvania, where autumnal hues have emerged. 🌱
#autumnal
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 9d
Traveling through Mesopotamia, meeting the bald ibis man, being from the USA abroad.
#baldibis #turkey #travel
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Adventure and ibises
At my daughter’s suggestion, we ended up in Mesopotamia: central to eastern Turkey, fertile crescent, Euphrates and Tigris, vaguely following the borders of Syria, Iran, and Armenia up toward…
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 14d
Traveling in Turkey is amazing, but the way the president here has gradually but effectively hurt his own citizens and tried to rewrite history to advance his own narrative is chilling. And all too familiar to this U. S. citizen.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 18d
Because bald ibises are so close to extinction. And so very amazing.
#Turkey #baldibis #endangeredspecies
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 20d
Gazientep, Turkey at dusk from the terrace of a terrific kebap place in the old Town. Tomorrow, a tour of the markets. Then east and north to Sanliurfa.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 23d
High-contrast cat.
#cats
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 24d
Good curation here, going from potential inspiration to where poems come from to the reflective aspects of poem origin as one ages...and onward. And when I get home I'm going to read Martha Silano's last book. ❤️
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 25d
Adventuring and monarch butterflies.
#monarchs #butterflies #blog #travel #adventure
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Adventuring
The weather here has been hot and somewhat humid, though it continues to be dry–much drier than autumns used to be. Drought extending past August into October is becoming a more usual thing, …
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 26d
🌱 While doing garden cleanup I chanced upon this helpful toady. Yes, poetry lovers I thought of Marianne Moore.
#gardens #toads #mariannemoore #poems

Poetry by Marianne Moore - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/cB1iwSoaIfUu...
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 28d
🌱 🦋
#tithonia #garden #butterfly
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 29d
Milkweed bugs/beetles.
#beetles #bugs #milkweed
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 22
Take up pottery!
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 22
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#blog #memory #proust #youth #poems
Points of view
I ran across something online that made me shudder–and it wasn’t politics or global tragedies but something sillier and more personal. Apparently there was a trend a decade ago of adult…
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 21
Drought in September. I'm taking the veg garden apart. First photo: July. 2nd photo, last day of summer.
🌱 #vegetable #gardening #drought #equinox
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 21
Upside-down bee snooze. 🌱
#bees #zinnia
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 18
Seed pods, very artsy. Some magnolia variety near my mom's.
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#seedpod #magnolia #autumn
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 17
Somethings are buzzing in the weeping linden. 🌱 🐝
#Hornets #nest
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 16
It happens. People seem to think everything online is free of copyright. It could be a form of flattery, the way classic Chinese poets used images and lines of their predecessors; but in contemporary culture, we should acknowledge the work of others.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 13
He's eating windfalls from our pear tree and clearly sees me as no threat. 🌱🍐 #whitetail
#buck #gardening
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 13
Bee, lazy in the late mini roses. 🌱🌹
#bee #pollinators #rose
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