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subtledays.bsky.social
@subtledays.bsky.social
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From the mountains but currently frolicking through the prairies 🏔️🌻 KC 🏳️‍🌈

Writer into books, movies, anime, naturism, mindfulness, cats, and hikes📚
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5’10” woot woot!
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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Ghibli marathons are the best! I could watch those movies every day without getting sick of them.
January 21, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Thank you, sir!
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Say it louder for the people in back!
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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I still like it better than X but just wish more people would migrate over.
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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"Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear" by Betsy Mitchell Martinez, published in Shō Poetry Journal No. 8 "Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear" by Betsy Mitchell Martinez, published in Shō Poetry Journal No. 8 "Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear" by Betsy Mitchell Martinez, published in Shō Poetry Journal No. 8 About this poem: When my daughter was in preschool, she became obsessed with Frida Kahlo. We read Frida books daily, and I often had to modify or omit portions of the books to make them suitable for a 3-year-old audience. Even with the modifications, we had a lot of surprising conversations about physical pain (e.g., what does "wounded" mean? what is amputation?), mental pain (why was Frida sad?), and art (why does Frida paint herself crying?). I found myself thinking about these things after my daughter went to bed, and I began to write poems, sometimes in Frida's imagined voice, to explore the connections between pain and art.
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM