I post #TodaysPoem selections on different platforms. On another platform, a reader mentioned that he has asked his library to purchase this collection. I love it when a wee post like this inspires people to seek out works.

"the delta is the
terminus. the delta is the
result of turbulence that
has finally settled"

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vii. Relationships by @leesadean.bsky.social from Interstitial (2026 @gaspereaupress.bsky.social) gaspereaupress.com/books/inters...

"Some people don’t like their food to touch.

Some like to rub up on the corners of buildings—can’t turn the block without squeezing the stone."

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Contact Forces by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social) (2021 The /temz/ Review) www.thetemzreview.com/poetry-dawn-...

"There’s a couple shadows but plenty more lights
Some doing wrong, but so many doing right
Behind the clouds is a sun ready to shine
Good days happen all the time"

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Good Things Happen by Chris Henderson (2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qCn...

"so we
the living lost
will burn food
for the lost on the other side."

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The rumour by Joseph A. Dandurand (2016 @MalahatReview.bsky.social) www.malahatreview.ca/excerpts/197...

"Our house is a very, very, very fine house (fine house)
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy cause of you"

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Our House by Graham Nash (1970) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunV... & genius.com/Crosby-still...

"I spoke to the taxi driver in broken Spanish.
I was becoming a priest, I told him, God willing,
as we drove over muddy ruts, pot holes, and alongside hungry dogs."

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Among Schoolchildren
Spencer Reece (2026 @montrealprize.bsky.social) www.montrealpoetryprize.com/poems/among-...

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@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels."

Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)

"Churchbells rang out, it was noon.
No-one was outside on the road.

Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere:
the same temperature."

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Living Proof by Erin Moure from O Resplandor (2010 @houseofanansi.bsky.social) www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

"Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that."

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Short Talk on Hopes by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books) www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...

"And if a ten-tonne truck kills the both of us
To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine"

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There is a Light That Never Goes Out by Morrissey and Johnny Marr (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=siO6... & genius.com/The-smiths-t...

"The actions of life are not so many. To go in, to go, to go in secret, to cross the bridge of sighs"

A jubilant #todayspoem!
Short Talk on Defloration by #nobelprize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)

"A pure matter, faith. As the wind blows. I believe in you not at all."

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First weather, by @robmclennan.bsky.social (2026) robmclennan.substack.com/p/seven-furt...

"But no, it’s just a sandwich. It’s not literature. It’s just litter."

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the ketchup sandwich by Sarah Ellis (2017 The Litter I See Project) thelitteriseeproject.com/2026/09/29/t...

"Last night a moose stepped into camp,
quiet as smoke, mountain ghost."

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Aubade for a Rush of Adrenaline by Jessica Aure Platt (2026 Phil Lit Journal) read.phillitjournal.com/fall26issue5...

"I like to greet the moon
pretend I'm her favourite
she wishes I'd visit more often"

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I'm His Sister by Joylyn Chai (2026 Poetries in English) www.poetriesinenglish.com/three-poems-...

"bent over it in sunlight
trying to add something
with layers of shadow.

I called it not drawing
with no light"

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Homeoteleuton by Ken Babstock from Swivelmount (2020 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/S/Swiv...

"When I dream, it’s about landmarks
man has yet to create, like a lake
made of thumbtacks
or a satellite made of flies."

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No Owe by Benjamin Niespodziany (@neonpajamas.bsky.social) (2026 @bulbregion.bsky.social) bulbregion.com/Two-Poems-by...