Rachel Loden
@rloden.bsky.social
Poet. Author of HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD, poems in Journal of the Plague Years, Paris Review &c.
The last line ends with a bit of a thud but the rest is lovely
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The last line ends with a bit of a thud but the rest is lovely
Glooms and Solitudes!
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Glooms and Solitudes!
Jordan Davis, I hope you will!
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Jordan Davis, I hope you will!
Edwin Denby, I imagine. O’Hara mentions him in “A Step Away from Them.” Wieners mentions him in poetry and prose. I don’t remember ever reading Denby himself— does anyone?
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Edwin Denby, I imagine. O’Hara mentions him in “A Step Away from Them.” Wieners mentions him in poetry and prose. I don’t remember ever reading Denby himself— does anyone?
“The tensile gloom of life”! That kills me
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The tensile gloom of life”! That kills me
OMG. Tear off my ears. Tie me to the mast and sail on
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
OMG. Tear off my ears. Tie me to the mast and sail on
Think of Wieners with his butterfly:
I watch you
all morning
long.
With my hand over my mouth.
(2/2)
I watch you
all morning
long.
With my hand over my mouth.
(2/2)
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Think of Wieners with his butterfly:
I watch you
all morning
long.
With my hand over my mouth.
(2/2)
I watch you
all morning
long.
With my hand over my mouth.
(2/2)
But weirdly some aren’t slow-growing or slow-arriving—some are gifts that needn’t be unwrapped, sudden takings-by-surprise (1/2)
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
But weirdly some aren’t slow-growing or slow-arriving—some are gifts that needn’t be unwrapped, sudden takings-by-surprise (1/2)
That’s hilarious. Did you ever ask him why the character was unlikeable?
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
That’s hilarious. Did you ever ask him why the character was unlikeable?
An unassuming, lovable person, sometimes a bit shy. Like a Moomintroll, if you’re familiar with that set of Swedo-Finnish books by Tove Jansson. They purport to be for children, the sort of children better known as grown-ups.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
An unassuming, lovable person, sometimes a bit shy. Like a Moomintroll, if you’re familiar with that set of Swedo-Finnish books by Tove Jansson. They purport to be for children, the sort of children better known as grown-ups.
My grandfather was a herring broker
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My grandfather was a herring broker
He looks like a complete poogeling,as we say in my house.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
He looks like a complete poogeling,as we say in my house.
That scene should be in a movie. What did this teacher look like?
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
That scene should be in a movie. What did this teacher look like?
Yikes. Twee Surrealism 🤮
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yikes. Twee Surrealism 🤮