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Rachel Loden

@rloden.bsky.social

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Poet. Author of HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD, poems in Journal of the Plague Years, Paris Review &c.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · Nov 21

A few years ago I filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests for the SS-5 applications of a number of dead poets. The SS-5 is the form that individuals must fill out to obtain a Social Security card. (1/8)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the fuzziness and puffiness of the image and the facelessness of the figure?

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 4d

Or how about
Gone with the Blowing in the Wind

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 4d

Something's Got to Give Me Hives

Mad Maxipads

The 400 Blows Chunks

War of the Rose Gardens

Baby Went Boom

Ida Rather Not

Marvin's Dorm Room

Gone With the Breaking Wind

Bringing Up Someone Else's Baby

Annie Hall Monitor

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 4d

At a particularly dark time in high school, my best friend said “Nothing can go really wrong as long as there are trees.”

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 5d

Swinging gibbets! What a wonderful word. (Spellcheck wants me to say “Swinging fibbers” which is good too)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

… the White House of future poems, and of dreams and dramas, there in the soft and copious moon—the gorgeous front, in the trees, under the lustrous flooding moon, full of realty, full of illusion—under the stars and sky—the White House of the land, and of beauty and night— (WW)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

the walls also—the tender and soft moonlight, flooding the pale marble, and making peculiar faint languishing shades, not shadows—everywhere a soft transparent hazy, thin, blue moon-lace, hanging in the air
(WW)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

Walt:

THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT
February 24th.—A spell of fine soft weather. I wander about a good deal, sometimes at night under the moon. Tonight took a long look at the President's house. The white portico—the palace-like, tall, round columns, spotless as snow—

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

Can we dance?

Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, John. I knew you’d have the skinny.

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

Is there anything we could have done?

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

When it didn’t recover we buried it underneath our pomegranate tree, the green sheen fading but a characteristic purple neck band now more visible.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 8d

This shiny black hummingbird with a green back flew into my husband’s shop and tried to make its way out through the skylight. We left the door open, hoping it would find its way out but later found it on the floor, stunned or dead.

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 9d

The “mops” poem absolutely puts me away. Thanks, John.

Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 10d

Rubbing Torsos, right?

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