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Michael Metivier

@grousehollow.bsky.social

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Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, EcoTheo, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · Jul 10

wild strawberry 😍🪶

A male rose-breasted grosbeak at a feeder facing forward. His red breast is strawberry shaped and has little black flecks.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, Worcester, obviously. It is pronounced <garbled noises>.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 4h

I’m afraid that if I drilled a hole anywhere in the ceiling of any room in our house I would get showered with acorns. Just one more reason not to drill a hole in the ceiling I guess.

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 5h

😭😍😭😍🥹😭😍😭🥹

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 5h

‼️PORCUPINE UNDER CAR ALERT

theres a whole damn porcupine under my car

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 7h

At what point are the load-bearing lies unable to further bear the load?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 7h

Instagram just decided to show me over two years’ worth of spam messages that it hadn’t before today, including seventy-one variations of “You are handsome” (thank you) and “How is your Wednesday!?” (fine).

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 11h

I think this is my favorite sandwich ever. Usually comes with arugula but they must be out and green leaf lettuce is also tasty, capicola and mortadella, provolone, olive tapenade, charred onions, house sourdough.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 12h

I had a prototype but it crashed upon automatically downloading an Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros album.

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12h

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 12h

New York Times’ headline writers get a lot of justifiable guff but I salute anyone and everyone involved in titling a piece about “miraculous” meatballs “Anyway, here’s wonderball.”

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 15h

Worth a read (as will be his forthcoming memoir)!

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 2d

My cousin Bill in the LA Times:

Commentary: A former NLRB chair looks at the past, present and Trumpian future of labor rights in the U.S.

William Gould's Clinton-era National Labor Relations Board delivered major victories for unions, but they're being undone by Trump's NLRB.

www.latimes.com

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a 😎 Gouda problem to have.

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

the “beefy handshake” meme with one arm captioned “monk in 825 AD,” the other captioned “me in 2025 AD” and where they clasp “One more scroll will fix me”

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

America is being held together by duct tape, Dolly, and Stevie Wonder.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

My wife foraged this bad boy in our woods this afternoon and fried it up!

A large puffball mushroom with a slice cut off, looking like a loaf of bread.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 27

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

2. Bigtooth aspen 2/4

The crowns of yellowing bigtooth aspen trees against a clear blue sky

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday I’ll be reading up on Roxbury VT! Come out (carpooling and RSVPing recommended).

10.11, 2:15-2:45pm. Labyrinth (of the Vermont Forest Cemetery)

Michael Metivier

Poet, essayist, and songwriter from Windsor, Vermont. As a musician he has shared the stage with Kristin Hersh, Kath Bloom, Basia Bulat, and more. He is currently a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. Read below to learn more!

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

4. Red staghorn sumac leaves looking like pennants 4/4

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

3. Floof 3/4

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

2. Bigtooth aspen 2/4

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

Some fall photos. 1/4

A pup:

A French bulldog mix walking down a leaf-strewn dirt driveway toward the camera

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

Most of the albums in my collection could probably be described as autumnal but if you want a *really* autumnal listen, today’s rec is Lambchop’s “Is A Woman,” which is also one of my favorite albums for any season.

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

It just occurred to me the professional debt I owe to Mavis Beacon.

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Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social · 1d

When a child reads a book and sees how a character experienced something similar and survived, it provides a lifeline to that reader. They go from feeling completely alone in the world to receiving a shred of hope. #BannedBooksWeek #kidlit

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh that is interesting. I’ve never heard ‘geeze.’

Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 2d

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