sometimes i forget
what it's like to be human
while wearing my skin.

-mp

I'm making a new journal for this season of my life and put my first decoration on it yesterday.
it felt like puzzle pieces clicking into place.
it felt good.
it felt terrifying.
#transmasc

🖤🖤🖤

1.
lovesick lullabies
sung by a different siren
ache just as sweetly

-mp
#haiku #poetry

A new tiny sketch for my sketchbook, page 8 🙂🪽
Acrylic on paper

#art #traditionalartist #acrylicpainting

One thing before tomorrow:

Use your local libraries.

Get your card.

Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.

Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).

Attend promoted activities.

Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.

Tell your kids that libraries are good.

They are.

📚

My @scishow.bsky.social buddies will appreciate this one.

Poem of the Day 📝

Optimistic Man

as a child he never plucked the wings off flies
he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails
or lock beetles in matchboxes or stomp anthills
he grew up and all those things were done to him
I was at his bedside when he died

N. Hikmet

#blueskypoetry #WriteStuff

We have poetry / so we do not die of history.

—Meena Alexander

🖤🖤🖤

For you, friends, for those cold nights. I'm there with you. ❤️

I will never, ever get over this.

are there any good poetry feeds/lists on this ap yet?

This Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode
A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸

All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org

This is the list of writers, so far,
taking part, more to be added before Saturday

We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548

What’s the worst thing Alfred Nobel did? Dynamite or the Nobel Prize.

— Ghayath Almadhoun, “Schizophrenia,” a 2015 poem

(From recent issue of The Nation)