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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · 10d

Marjoram. I love this stuff.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Aug 24

He’s such a talented craftsman.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · Aug 1

"You know / I always need to save something, to control it."

'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Sheer brilliance 🤍

#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jul 28

I have these and many others at my table. I’d say “look for the bald guy,” but that’s a pretty broad brush at this event.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hannah Bonner

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here’s a moody shot of a fantastic-looking pen: the Pilot MYU, from the first year they were made, 1971.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jun 20

Is that an uzukuri brush in the center?

Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jun 1

Hanky-panko

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · May 24

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...

@jamieloftus.bsky.social

A statue of a Nathan’s Famous hotdog in Ukraine. The hotdog has shoes on and a strong curvy squirt of mustard along its length.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · May 22

Michigan J Frog, a song-and-dance entertainer from 1955.

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Jonathan Howard @jhoward.bsky.social · May 8

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 8

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · May 3

#woodworking

Four pictures of some black benches with leather strap handles.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Apr 27

Golden Notebook ❤️

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Apr 26

'Language as the body's echo, body as the instrument of life.'

This is stunning.

#amreading #amwriting

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Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Apr 19

Painted plant stands, front and right, and their barn sale inspiration, back left.
#woodworking

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Apr 6

I like that earring!
For your ailments, just drink Jagermeister…it’s sorta like cough syrup, right?

Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Apr 5

Just get one at the gettin’ store.

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Tiffany Sanerd @atypicaltiff.bsky.social · Mar 4

A hundred passes; your cold shoulder has shaved me to a sliver. But not to nothing. And oh, what is left is sharp. I won't cling anemic to your love's #penumbra anymore. A crescent moon, I gut the night, bleed stars upon the begging palms of darkness, & sideslip full-bodied into a new day.

#vss365

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Mar 4

DAMN

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Feb 15

Writing prompt

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Feb 2

Here’s one for the #fountainpen threads- a ca. 1930’s Swan Jackdaw Toledo. Black and red-mottled ebonite wrapped with hand-engraved 24k gold bands.

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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social · Jan 25

e.e. cummings is pretty metal about his art

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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · Dec 28

All This Plus A Bell

& there were words

& there were words

& there were songs

& there were phonemes

& Her knock knees were touch

stones & her hooves sugar that mountain

& the wind sugars that mountain

& somewhere there is an ocean & that

ocean makes my ears wish they were hands

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