@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
@samrasnake.bsky.socialThere's hope out there. Yes. I find that one read always lead to another, and there's always room in the cart.
@samrasnake.bsky.socialFrom Rolling Stone’s list (2021): The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…
#148: Led Zeppelin, “Kashmir”
Robert Plant once said the recording “Kashmir” incorporates all that is Led Zeppelin. I do believe it’s one of their best.
@samrasnake.bsky.socialHeather McHugh, from “Webcam the World”
@lisasass.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social• Oct 10 (Sat): Music for the Ocean — Arianna String Quartet
• Oct 11 (Sun): Haydn's The Creation — Bach Society of #STL
Look, my choices were laundry & cleaning my fridge or cultural fabulousness.
Made my choices, takin’ my chances!
@veronikafuchs.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialA golden afternoon (a few days ago) to brighten your day/everything.
@veronikafuchs.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialby Jane Hirshfield
@upfromsumdirt.blacksky.appReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialroland kirk I TALK WITH THE SPIRITS
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social"Just as my eyelids are about to slump, the bully in my pillow says: you really think it's time for sleeping, you aspiring loser?" Every story in this brilliant collection @kiklodge.bsky.social soars with wit, grace, & the lonely and lovely absurdity of being human.
@kathyfish.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialWant to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos
@danbillyc.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social"I asked what scared you. Plate tectonics, you said. Flood basalt eruptions. Anoxia.
Human beings, I said. That made you smile.
Those too, you said."
Big love for this brilliant story by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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@rfredekenter.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialHaving an amazing time curating all this incredible international work as part of our latest @icefloepress.bsky.social series Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle
Landscapes of our times. Today welcome poet / ice floe author Lynne J. Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social
@vikkicwrites.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social"I was made in the image
of a thing without
an image & silence, too,
is your invention."
This stunning and poignant poem 'Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]' by Meg Day 🤍
via Poetry Foundation
![Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]
By Meg Day
I knew I was a god
when you could not
agree on my name
& still, none you spoke
could force me to listen
closer. Is this the nothing
the antelope felt when
Adam, lit on his own
entitling, dubbed family,
genus, species? So many
descendants became
doctors, delivered
babies, bestowed bodies
names as if to say it is to make it
so. Can it be a comfort between
us, the fact of my creation?
I was made in the image
of a thing without](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:nhpipu7pozn3whkp2fj3wjy5/bafkreiapur4b2a6fk7ysli35cwhn6bkanfxfbwtidxu2qle5uef5otvave@jpeg)
@roseknapp.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social@roseknapp.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social
@tomsnarsky.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialextremely grateful to the editors of @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for including this small ekphrastic poem, after a photograph by Diane Arbus, in their most recent zine :) 📸
@tomsnarsky.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialNicanor Parra, trs. Jiménez-Orrego & Quasha
@eunoiareview.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialMarginalia I ask: do her breaths shake the house? With each crossed finger, with each denial does she grow on, unacknowledged? though you tried, tried hard to hold on to the times when people were nothing but an admirer of you I ask: does she still live here? incorporeal and thus unimportant, thus…
@hanvanderhart.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.socialIt is not she anymore, but the pain itself
that moves her.
Linda Gregg
@stonecirclereview.bsky.socialReposted by @samrasnake.bsky.social… a writer is very like a witch. With her cat, making magic with words. And maybe changing the world, just a little. – Theodora Goss
@samrasnake.bsky.socialFrom Rolling Stone’s list (2021): The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…
#159: The Who, “Baba O’Riley”
