is anything, you will be/to me, always.

Isaiah awoke angry.
Lapping at Isaiah’s ears black birdsong no it was anger.
God had filled Isaiah’s ears with stingers.
Once God and Isaiah were friends.
God and Isaiah used to converse nightly, Isaiah would rush into the garden...
“The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home."
—Dennis Nurske
"To them it's a terrifying thought..."
"Girls of the Wild," by Nikita Gill, from <i>Wild Embers</i> (Hachette Books, 2017)
Illustration: Fritz Kredel, <i>The World's Best Fairy Tales</i> (Reader's Digest Association, 1967)
#nikitagill #poetry #poems #dangerouswomen #fairytales #hachette
These three poems by Gili Haimovich attempt to traverse the dark, mysterious distances between the self and the ways it can be gathered from the mundane details of everyday life around it: acrossthemargin.com/three-poems-... #poems #poetry
Twig Noir A Closer Look features #photography by Graffiti Photographic with #model Twig Noir. Short stories & #poems written by me capture the regal beauty of Twig against the stark & crumbling prison around her.
‘Perspective’ #poetry #poems #poetryinmotion #poema
Two Waka
Naoko Fujimoto’s translations and illustrations give voice to Japan’s earliest female poets, reimagining their grief and longing in electrifying verse.
Read more: tricycle.org/article/naok...
Here’s ‘Poems to Write’ from my latest poetry collection This Joyful Interlude, out now ✨
First published in Dreich Season 8, Issue 7
Book links (or pm me for a signed copy)
UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
US amazon.com/dp/1068432330
CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330
"Some October," by Barbara Crooker
Some October, when the leaves turn gold, ask
me if I've done enough to deserve this life
I've been given. A pile of sorrows, yes, but joy
enough to unbalance the equation...
A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-so...
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Started reading Kelsey L. Smoot's "Soulmate As A Verb: Poems"
amzn.to/4y97PGC
📖🖊️
Oh, this is really good so far...
#books #reading #poems #poetry @nonbinarypapi.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky