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irishali13.bsky.social
Alison Birch
@irishali13.bsky.social
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Poet Published: Canada & the United States. PaddlerPress. Texas Poetry. Wax Poetry & Art. Doctoral Candidate-ABD. University Faculty Lecturer of Linguistics & Literacy. Dem. Ally. (Mom) and Yogi. Sometimes Funny.
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · Feb 15
Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

~ Michelle Obama
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 3h
Good night, friends. ⭐️

Art photography: Manisha Gawli
A woman standing in the middle of the road looking at a Capitol-type building in the rain.
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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social · 5h
You watch: people who can write well (an already rare breed), as well as people who can think critically and reason for themselves are going to be in *high demand* in the very near future, as AI steadily erodes most people's ability to use their own brains.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 7h
Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6h
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
I fancied you’d return the way you said
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I think I made you up — inside my head.
~ Sylvia Plath
(from) Mad Girl’s Love Song
I fancied you’d return the way you said I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.) ~ Sylvia Plath (from) Mad Girl’s Love Song A woman running in a dream.
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
— Waking up in 2025

Never confuse a single defeat -

With a final defeat -

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d
Dorothy Lee, 1930.
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
For Women Wednesday
~ Leila Chatti 🍂
Once in a While I Am Reminded
—I am not at the center of anything. Seen at a distance I am hardly seen./each moment wondering if this is when the real story starts.
LEILA CHATTI Once in a While I Am Reminded I am not at the center of anything. Seen at a distance I am hardly seen. Excruciating, how here I am, how little it means. I use my mouth to make sounds which approximate my innermost thoughts but often bungle it. I use my eyes when I need to be understood. Sometimes I tell the truth but only when I think I'll be valued for being interesting instead of good. I marvel at what I call my life-ambulances, sparrows, clouds passing definitively by—amazed that it doesn't know it's mine at all, the minor characters don't look up, the narrative sags, and I each moment wondering if this is when the real story starts.
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 16h
Exactly. 😊🎃🦃🎄🥰
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
—This is probably the best song on the album. ⭐️

A beautiful, beautiful time lapse
Ferris wheels, kisses and lilacs
And things I said were dumb
'Cause I thought that I'd never find that beautiful, beautiful life that
Shimmers that innocent light back
Like when we were young

youtu.be/HwQnW_ZRKhc?...
Taylor Swift - Eldest Daughter (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Taylor Swift
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
Hang in there, Em. But I hear you— it feels like it should be much closer to winter break. 🫠
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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday I received a real letter in the post from a 92-year-old friend of my dad's. He wrote to thank me for writing my memoir, love lay down beside me and we wept.
Reviews are good for our profiles as writers but heartfelt thanks are good for our souls. 🧡
#WomenWritersNet
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 7d
Julie Andrews by Bert Stern, 1965. #botd
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
For Women Wednesday
~ Leila Chatti 🍂
Once in a While I Am Reminded
—I am not at the center of anything. Seen at a distance I am hardly seen./each moment wondering if this is when the real story starts.
LEILA CHATTI Once in a While I Am Reminded I am not at the center of anything. Seen at a distance I am hardly seen. Excruciating, how here I am, how little it means. I use my mouth to make sounds which approximate my innermost thoughts but often bungle it. I use my eyes when I need to be understood. Sometimes I tell the truth but only when I think I'll be valued for being interesting instead of good. I marvel at what I call my life-ambulances, sparrows, clouds passing definitively by—amazed that it doesn't know it's mine at all, the minor characters don't look up, the narrative sags, and I each moment wondering if this is when the real story starts.
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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 20h
James Dean
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
— Waking up in 2025

Never confuse a single defeat -

With a final defeat -

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · Apr 27
Audre Lorde:
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · Oct 25
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
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I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

~Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Joanna Macy)
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 17h
I fancied you’d return the way you said
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I think I made you up — inside my head.
~ Sylvia Plath
(from) Mad Girl’s Love Song
I fancied you’d return the way you said I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.) ~ Sylvia Plath (from) Mad Girl’s Love Song A woman running in a dream.
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New Mexico Nomad @newmexiconomad.com · 1d
Splash and dash this morning 😍

#NewMexico #roadtrip #BalloonFiesta #Albuquerque
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 1d
I hope this reaches you.
To a Life in Despair Don't. Don't go to the bridge. Don't wake in your coat in the morning light and carry those stones into the river. Don't find your father's pistol in the attic, hidden in the family albums. Don't. Don't pour the pills into the whiskey, the walls dissolving like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose not to wake. Stay. Just stay. Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow. You can always walk alone into the darkness. But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon. I don't have a reason to give you. All I have is the morning, and the autumn wind, and the child you once were in the darkness, looking at the new moon through the ruins, saying save me, save me, save me, and the moon looking back with her vacant face saying I promise, I stone- cold promise that the face of utter hopelessness is the face of something just about to change. —Joseph Fasano
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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 1d
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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d
Good night, friends. ⭐️
Sassy white cat on a white moon with stars in the night sky. Animated.
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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 1d
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