Rachel
@vignettes.bsky.social
Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Epistemic Literary, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Epistemic Literary, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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@vignettes.bsky.social
· Dec 5
“Clinical Interruption” by @vignettes.bsky.social centers the #integrity of the body, perfectly maintaining metaphor throughout. A beautiful #Poem from Issue 7
“He lies like a house condemned
timbers softening
joists sighing under the weight”
epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
“He lies like a house condemned
timbers softening
joists sighing under the weight”
epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
CLINICAL INTERRUPTION -
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epistemiclit.com
I'm absolutely thrilled to have a piece published in Issue 7. Thank you so much.
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Today I learned:
- Dante created the terza rima for the Divine Comedy;
- my memory of this epic was more sketchy than I would like;
- I am prone to going down rabbit holes;
- terza rimas are really hard!
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#promptcombo #subtext
- Dante created the terza rima for the Divine Comedy;
- my memory of this epic was more sketchy than I would like;
- I am prone to going down rabbit holes;
- terza rimas are really hard!
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#promptcombo #subtext
January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Today I learned:
- Dante created the terza rima for the Divine Comedy;
- my memory of this epic was more sketchy than I would like;
- I am prone to going down rabbit holes;
- terza rimas are really hard!
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#promptcombo #subtext
- Dante created the terza rima for the Divine Comedy;
- my memory of this epic was more sketchy than I would like;
- I am prone to going down rabbit holes;
- terza rimas are really hard!
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
#promptcombo #subtext
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For this week's #PromptCombo theme #Subtext with thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social and all those participating.
January 19, 2026 at 9:02 AM
For this week's #PromptCombo theme #Subtext with thanks to @victoriaspires.bsky.social and all those participating.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Excellent and edifying interview
In our latest interview,
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle reflects on writing, witness, and the forms poetry can take when direct experience is unavailable.
Read the interview between Sharon Kennedy-Nolle and @megjnic.bsky.social on Variant's Variety Pack blog:
variantlit.com/sharon-kenne...
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle reflects on writing, witness, and the forms poetry can take when direct experience is unavailable.
Read the interview between Sharon Kennedy-Nolle and @megjnic.bsky.social on Variant's Variety Pack blog:
variantlit.com/sharon-kenne...
Poetry as a Means of Survival: A Conversation with Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbo…
variantlit.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Excellent and edifying interview
A nature/climate change poem. Thanks for the #PromptCombo topic #subtext and the challenging terza rima. Hope I cracked the structure. 🫣
Hope you feel brighter this week @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#poems #writingprompts
Hope you feel brighter this week @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#poems #writingprompts
January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
A nature/climate change poem. Thanks for the #PromptCombo topic #subtext and the challenging terza rima. Hope I cracked the structure. 🫣
Hope you feel brighter this week @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#poems #writingprompts
Hope you feel brighter this week @victoriaspires.bsky.social
#poems #writingprompts
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For Helen
she came back as a moth
small and brown, she sat on my
hand as I cried
#dailyhaikuprompt #moth #poetry
she came back as a moth
small and brown, she sat on my
hand as I cried
#dailyhaikuprompt #moth #poetry
January 19, 2026 at 8:33 PM
For Helen
she came back as a moth
small and brown, she sat on my
hand as I cried
#dailyhaikuprompt #moth #poetry
she came back as a moth
small and brown, she sat on my
hand as I cried
#dailyhaikuprompt #moth #poetry
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January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 1/21- 1/23 2026
1/21-Keyhole
1/22-Keystone
1/23-Kimono
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 1/21- 1/23 2026
1/21-Keyhole
1/22-Keystone
1/23-Kimono
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
January 20, 2026 at 3:58 PM
#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 1/21- 1/23 2026
1/21-Keyhole
1/22-Keystone
1/23-Kimono
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
Hello, good day to everyone.💙🦉
Here are the (optional) #prompt
words for- 1/21- 1/23 2026
1/21-Keyhole
1/22-Keystone
1/23-Kimono
Definitions and notes are attached, just expand the thread to view them.
#haikuchallenge
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she took the pre-yarn of my heart
weaving them on her loom to set me off
on a perpendicular direction from which
i was unable to recover and respun a
sailor's life story on another course
#vss365 [loom]
weaving them on her loom to set me off
on a perpendicular direction from which
i was unable to recover and respun a
sailor's life story on another course
#vss365 [loom]
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
she took the pre-yarn of my heart
weaving them on her loom to set me off
on a perpendicular direction from which
i was unable to recover and respun a
sailor's life story on another course
#vss365 [loom]
weaving them on her loom to set me off
on a perpendicular direction from which
i was unable to recover and respun a
sailor's life story on another course
#vss365 [loom]
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The cat reads your post
“Should my needs not be met too?"
No blood; just envy
“Should my needs not be met too?"
No blood; just envy
January 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The cat reads your post
“Should my needs not be met too?"
No blood; just envy
“Should my needs not be met too?"
No blood; just envy
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.34 between intent and accident” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm
#sketchbook #drawing
”SB148.34 between intent and accident” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm
#sketchbook #drawing
January 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Marcus McAllister
”SB148.34 between intent and accident” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm
#sketchbook #drawing
”SB148.34 between intent and accident” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm
#sketchbook #drawing
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Horror Writing Prompt no. 2072: flowers
Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Horror Writing Prompt no. 2072: flowers
Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
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Poetry & AI?
Already AI could write Shakespeare's 155th sonnet, Wordsworth’s Upon Forth Bridge and TS Eliot’s Five Quintets.
But I think people will always write poetry because they need to. Original poems might circulate hand to hand or rather screen to screen, like Samizdat.
#poetry #books #AI
Already AI could write Shakespeare's 155th sonnet, Wordsworth’s Upon Forth Bridge and TS Eliot’s Five Quintets.
But I think people will always write poetry because they need to. Original poems might circulate hand to hand or rather screen to screen, like Samizdat.
#poetry #books #AI
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
milk left on the step /
fairies drink and wipe their mouths /
blood on the saucer
#HaikuHorrorPrompt 1640
#Prompt fairies
#haiku
fairies drink and wipe their mouths /
blood on the saucer
#HaikuHorrorPrompt 1640
#Prompt fairies
#haiku
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
milk left on the step /
fairies drink and wipe their mouths /
blood on the saucer
#HaikuHorrorPrompt 1640
#Prompt fairies
#haiku
fairies drink and wipe their mouths /
blood on the saucer
#HaikuHorrorPrompt 1640
#Prompt fairies
#haiku
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Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1640: fairies
Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
January 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1640: fairies
Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.
Big thanks to Megan Certeza for sparking today's terror!
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January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Thanks Lily @lifelovelily22.bsky.social for your generous and inspiring stint hosting.
#7syllablesentence
I'll be delivering prompts from tomorrow at 6am GMT
More hosts are needed. Can you spare some time? Let Gabe know if you can @poetguygabe.bsky.social
#7syllablesentence
I'll be delivering prompts from tomorrow at 6am GMT
More hosts are needed. Can you spare some time? Let Gabe know if you can @poetguygabe.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Thanks Lily @lifelovelily22.bsky.social for your generous and inspiring stint hosting.
#7syllablesentence
I'll be delivering prompts from tomorrow at 6am GMT
More hosts are needed. Can you spare some time? Let Gabe know if you can @poetguygabe.bsky.social
#7syllablesentence
I'll be delivering prompts from tomorrow at 6am GMT
More hosts are needed. Can you spare some time? Let Gabe know if you can @poetguygabe.bsky.social
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January 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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The last vestige of
Integrity was stubborn,
Belligerent pride.
#BraveWrite #vestige #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@bravewrite.bsky.social
Integrity was stubborn,
Belligerent pride.
#BraveWrite #vestige #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@bravewrite.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The last vestige of
Integrity was stubborn,
Belligerent pride.
#BraveWrite #vestige #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@bravewrite.bsky.social
Integrity was stubborn,
Belligerent pride.
#BraveWrite #vestige #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@bravewrite.bsky.social
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January 20, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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beauty always finds
ways to keep ugliness checked
counterbalancing
cruel deeds with fierce softness
kindness is multiplying
#tanka #poetry #poetrycommunity
#♡•♡ #○♡○
ways to keep ugliness checked
counterbalancing
cruel deeds with fierce softness
kindness is multiplying
#tanka #poetry #poetrycommunity
#♡•♡ #○♡○
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 AM
beauty always finds
ways to keep ugliness checked
counterbalancing
cruel deeds with fierce softness
kindness is multiplying
#tanka #poetry #poetrycommunity
#♡•♡ #○♡○
ways to keep ugliness checked
counterbalancing
cruel deeds with fierce softness
kindness is multiplying
#tanka #poetry #poetrycommunity
#♡•♡ #○♡○
She waits on the high shelf, limbs glazed and perfect, eyes shut against years. Teacups ring faintly when the house shifts. Dust settles like manners. Once she was invited everywhere. Now she listens, chipped and quiet, to games that moved on without her
Prompt 173 #SenseWrds
porcelain sleep pearls
Prompt 173 #SenseWrds
porcelain sleep pearls
January 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM
She waits on the high shelf, limbs glazed and perfect, eyes shut against years. Teacups ring faintly when the house shifts. Dust settles like manners. Once she was invited everywhere. Now she listens, chipped and quiet, to games that moved on without her
Prompt 173 #SenseWrds
porcelain sleep pearls
Prompt 173 #SenseWrds
porcelain sleep pearls