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Basil van Eck
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Author, Meanderer
WIP: Her Old Bones, Goodbye Moon Men
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All My Favorite Writers are Dead.
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Those who are afraid to cast a shadow will never find the light. #writing #writer #poem #poetry
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A wonderful day with a wonderful novel and a wonderful fur baby curled in my lap. I am inching closer and closer to finishing the edits on my novel. #booksky #authors #author #writing #writers
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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What words could curl
From upturned tongues
The tips to taste
Your soft light glint
A tint of pink
That might turn red
The start of something
Better felt than said

#poem #poetry #writing
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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What has everyone been working on this frigid Sunday? I, for one, have been fighting a glorious battle against syntax. #booksky #writers #writer #author #authors
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A delicate lesson
To lessen the pain
To sleep
You must first
Pretend to be
Adjust
Reposition
Return to how you were
Conferred the want
Earned
The need

#poem #poet #love #need #poemsky #poetry
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Cat in lap, book in hand. It’s a great day to sit inside and watch the snow drip from branches and rooftops alike. #booksky #books #cat #snowday 📚💙
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata. My cat, Beansprout, is curled beneath the book.
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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A little boy
In a slightly too large suit
Well, people age
She says
But that shouldn’t concern you
In time
You will cause reason to hush
In time
You will be sleeping
Like he was

#poem #poetry #writing #poet
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Eventuality enjoyed in full
Towers constructed to rejoice
Those left standing
Despite knowing that
Delay is nothing
And worth its weight in air
Futility uncared for
The toil of today unreturned
It burdens the burned
And spares those already
Turned to dust
The dead.
#poem #poetry
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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My editing assistant has once again fallen asleep on the job. This guy is begging to get fired. #writing #writer #author #authors #booksky #editing
My cat, Beansprout, sleeping on an afghan.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The wrath of the earth and the heavens
Like the rage of a neglectful God
Bearing down
With infinite wrath
The shrapnel of destruction carried
Over divine flatness
Holy glacial plains swirling
Churning
Racing like the blades
Of a billion knives loosed
At every angle
From the sky
#poem #poetry
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I made the mistake of asking who his favorite saxophonists were.
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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J.D. sure loves his digressions. I love them too, but not as much as he does. #booksky #reading #read #novel #novels 💙📚
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J.D. Salinger.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I am inching closer and closer to finishing this infernal novel. It’s become less about getting it out in the world and more about proving that I can do it. I plan on burning my keyboard once I’m done. #author #authors #writing #booksky #books
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Hurt people hurt people. The bad ones lash out. The good ones take great care to only hurt themselves, and fail to realize that’s just as bad. Don’t they know they are people too? #writing #write #thoughts #vibes
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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If money can’t buy happiness then give me your wallet.
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Upside: bartending school is fun. Downside: editing is not. #writing #author #booksky #authors
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Sure, I could have worked on my book today. But I didn’t. Sue me. #booksky #author #writing #writers
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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A poem I wrote at 17. #poem #poetry #writing #author
I sat with my back turned to the basement At the top of the stairs And a tingle shot itself into my spine Running its course along my flesh I don’t know what I’m afraid of But I am certain that I am afraid The sun came out briefly yesterday But fell when I decided to look at it The river froze over this morning Trapping some swans in the middle There was no sun to thaw them free I kept looking for its warmth I sat in the basement at night And felt the air you used to breathe And as the world froze to fire I made love to my fear of death
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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How many rejection letters from literary agents do I have to amass before I can turn it into a drinking game? #writing #author #authors #booksky #book
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I wish this book would write itself. #author #writing #booksky
October 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Jorge Amado where have you been all my life? #booksky 📚💙
Home is the Sailor by Jorge Amado
June 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The raw power I feel from organizing my bookshelves is unmatched by even the most radioactive of nuclear fallout sites. #booksky #reading #books 💙📚
My bookshelves, organized alphabetical (for the most part). Highlights include: lots of yasunari kawabata and Vonnegut, some Stephen king left over from high school, Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. Also bookshelf.
June 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Finished another round of book editing today, so naturally my reward is a shift working sound for jazz. Life is a never ending deluge of side quests, and don’t let anyone tell you differently. #writing #authors #booksky 📚💙
June 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Why are there 368 people following me. Please go around.
June 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Picked this up for 4.99 at half price a little while ago. I’m nervous that there’s some insane malfunction with or curse placed on it. #booksky
Hardcover of Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
June 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM