Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 (@neonpajamas.bsky.social)

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:56 PMReposted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social

"Made death new to me." - Hedgie Choi

surreal prose poems about family, childhood, grief, mortality, & lightbulbs

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picture of me in front of a bookshelf holding up four copies of my new book, UNCLE TIME (Gasher Press)

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:32 PM

Miltos Sachtouris

tr. Karen Emmerich

#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

HYDRA

They hung my blood from the branches
they cast my blood into the sea
the wildflowers the painted teeth the bitter
kisses
the fish the ships in the sea
all built their nests in my blood
and dyed their sails with my blood
and with my blood they flapped their wings
all the terrible birds in the sea

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:12 PM

This is the best workshop I’ve ever taken. And I’ve taken a lot of workshops. Anyone who attends is in for a treat!

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@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:25 PM

I wrote about last Saturday's inspiring prose reading for Zona Motel

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:48 PM

93 weeks, 93 poems, 93 free writing prompts

today's is a surreal one from Angel T. Dionne (@woodenmormyrid.bsky.social)

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@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:24 PM

Can't wait for this strange & surreal book! I was fortunate enough to read an early version & provide a blurb. You're in for a treat

@adrianf.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:06 PMReposted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social

an old shorty from @havehashad.com for #smallpoemsunday

cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:48 PM

A+ prose poem

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:33 PM

Jordan Sanderson

The Dressmaker

Behind her house, she found a partially eaten rabbit and wrapped it in wool, then fed it to a wolf, which she had spent some time outfitting in shirts that showed its stomach. When her friend saw the wolf, she asked, "Where did you find such an elegant cage for that starving rabbit?" "This isn't a cage, it's a rabbit," the dressmaker said. Her friend followed her inside, so they could get ready to go downtown. "I seem to have misplaced my studs," the dressmaker said. "We'll have to blanket the house." Once downtown, her ears intact, she fitted her friend in a green gown. "It drags the ground," her friend said. "I look like an unknown meadow." "It's perfect," the dressmaker said. "It buries me," her friend disagreed. "And in burying excavates," said the dressmaker. "But it swallows me, dear," her friend kindly objected. "I've always wanted to be happy," said the dressmaker, moving on to other projects, "but I could never get my stomach around it." From outside, her space looked like clothes heaped on a sidewalk, waiting for someone to come home.

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:56 PM

"Made death new to me." - Hedgie Choi

surreal prose poems about family, childhood, grief, mortality, & lightbulbs

www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:01 PM

Stacy Szymaszek

two adult Eastern Racers
were fighting in a water fountain
and one offspring
I tried to intervene and got bitten
twice quickly two painful bruises
formed the little racer grew red wings and hovered
in the air similar to a drone
I enlisted a poet and her daughter who live nearby
what could we do except run
through the abandoned streets together

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:01 PM

Bob Heman

the distance described
but never entered
because the door
cannot be opened
and the sky
above him is
only painted on

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:34 PM

Anne Carson

When my brother died (unexpectedly) his widow couldn't find a phone number for me among his papers until two weeks later. While I swept my porch and bought apples and sat by the window in the evening with the radio on, his death came wandering slowly towards me across the sea.

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:25 PM

I'll play

CAConrad - The Book of Frank
Sabrina Orah Mark - Wild Milk
Robert Kloss - The Woman Who Lived Amongst The Cannibals
Denis Johnson - Fiskadoro
Aglaja Veteranyi - Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta
Zachary Schomburg - Mammother
Ilya Kaminsky - Deaf Republic
Steven Dunn - Potted Meat
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi - The Book of Kane and Margaret

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:08 PM

Graham Foust
@floodeditions.bsky.social

LEAVE ALL BAGGAGE BEHIND

And when you get to the skull
of an owl in a bell jar --
what dice cups the sockets are,
what a page the lack of face! --
compare it, but be careful,
to an owl in your house.

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:58 AM

Barton Smock

UNICORN PARENTS

A ventriloquist falls silent in a film that shows hell. There are places in heaven that are too close to god.

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:07 PM

30+ new followers in the last day, but they're almost all bots...

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:32 PM

He's the man! Are you familiar with the CLOWN WAR digital archive? Most are free to download here

www.jstor.org/site/reveal-...

@neonpajamas.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:59 PM

Bob Heman

THEY DREW SYMBOLS on each other with the juice of berries. They fashioned new animals out of the mud. They made footsteps on the ground and followed them over and over again. They listened to the birds and repeated their songs. They copies the movements of the serpent.

@mrwojorising.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:12 PMReposted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social

Here's one of my favorite poems from my new MS of ekphrastic prose poems (this one appeared in @bulbregion.bsky.social) AND here's a link to the animation that inspired it: 35mm.online/en/vod/anima...