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Hannah Floyd
@word3floyd.bsky.social
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Writes poetry, flash, speculative fiction. Works in a special school. Bakes stuff.
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Reposted by Hannah Floyd
God had the book of life open at PLEASURE and was holding the pages down in one hand because of the wind from the door.
For I made their flesh as a sieve
wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order:

Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.
Reposted by Hannah Floyd
“There’s always a next right thing to do.”
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
The stories are great but y'all need to see those storytelling artworks. No paywall.
Jam-packed issue with stories based on the artwork of Lorraine Roy. #shortstory #litmag #indieauthor
Stuck in bed here since 4 o clock clock time.
Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."
Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."
Unbelievably, I have had a second drabble published in:

www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com.

This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.
Hotch Potch Literature & Art
Volume 4, Issue 2
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com
Current read: Monster by @dzifabenson.bsky.social . It's phenomenal. It's like attending a stunning multimedia exhibition - but it's a poetry book.
Pleased (and relieved) that one of the many poems I wrote based on the Epic of Gilgamesh has been published!! So excited to be in the first issue of Glasgow-based SEXTET magazine in conjunction with @sixfootgallery.bsky.social :
sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd
Hannah Floyd – SEXTET
sextet.co.uk
Elevenses and tea are my favourite meals. I love brunch too, provided one doesn't miss breakfast or elevenses to do so. What time is "tiffin"? because I am sure that's good too.
It's not even October yet and somehow my class have eaten all 5 of my whiteboard markers. 👍 Special ed.
Amazing 😍 night out at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social seeing @jayahadadream.bsky.social and Lowkey (Kareem Dennis). Words are not just for nerds!! Restoring faith in humanity.
Day 7: Prelude to Bruise by @theferocity.bsky.social . "The dress is an oil slick. The dress/ ruins everything." Sexy, slick lines and commitment to personal story, all of it gay, all so hot I don't get a dull moment to figure out the pitch perfect techniques.
Day 6: When God Is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam. After yesterday's tough reading this book was refreshingly lightweight. No bad thing - there was even some humour. My favourite poem was "Bhakti": the suggestion was to put God in a hip flask to "keep it illicit".
Day 5: Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun. It's solid and powerful. Each is a travel poem but it's not "travel": it's exile. He grieves for home, and for the dead, killed by colonialism. "your language is extinct, /a dead thing wandering at the boundary of darkness; you must/ hold it and shout".
Day 4: "Blade By Blade" by @danushalameris.bsky.social. These poems show a bright, painful love of life, and each tells a story: "Many things are inherited./ Whole histories, for example - and the long paths walked in the heat, /in the dead of night -away from them."
Wow, such a gorgeous review
I forgot to say the book is called Guard the Mysteries by Cedar Sigo
I didn't realise this was a book of essays till I unwrapped it. But I devoured this book. It explores the lives of several West Coast US poets and digs up gold. for me it lit up the question not of "how good" a poem is but why write poetry? How to live & practice? And how to use poetry for change?