Jack Preston King (@jackprestonking.bsky.social)

@niftybuckles.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:57 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

##1DaysofHalloween 🐦‍⬛🎃✨

@davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:51 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

If we could just ask the AI bots the right questions…

@gaiajane.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:02 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

The season is upon us.

@gerrythibeault.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:58 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

Sneak peak into my chapbook—poetry about #poetry

@drangelapuca.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:34 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

TODAY Sunday 11the October 5 pm UK time /12 pm EST)
What happens when art becomes a vehicle for hidden knowledge, spirit communication, and alternative forms of spirituality?
youtube.com/live/vOKhN_5...

#art #esotericism #occultart

@sjane.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:28 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

"A Poem That I Wrote in a High Fever"
Yehuda Amichai for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

You who are lengthening your lives
with the best doctors and the best medicines
remember those who are shortening their lives
with the wars
that you in your long lives are not
preventing.
You who are again screwing
the younger generations
and winking at each other
the winking of your eyelids
is like the chill of the swinging shutters
in an empty house.

@susanlleary.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:56 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

Zoë Ryder White 💙

“Clouds have come down to touch us.”

from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books)

Happy #smallpoemsunday!

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Quarantine 9

How beautiful the spent annuals,
tied to their roots. The yard's dense mud.
The viral load, the unscrolled breath.
Clouds have come down to touch us.
They hang around; they will not leave.
We have enclosed the yard with strings of light.
In this way, we are kept company.
In this way, our company is kept.

@susanlleary.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:42 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

Get your copy here: riverriverbooks.org/store/The-Vi...

@susanlleary.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:40 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

Zoë Ryder White 💙

from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books)

I cannot get over how incredibly perfect this book is!

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Some sentences, some clauses, a word.

It took a long time to cross the room.
The room was so long.
The room had no ceiling because the house had no roof.
The floor was uneven.
Any round thing set on one side would roll to the other.
There was a collection of roundish objects to the left.
The windows were difficult to discern because there were no walls.
Some of us could hear the dead only as we started walking or just before we got there.
Others heard them all the time: singing, carrying on.
Below the floorboards, below the space below the floorboards: relics.
A cache of seeds and plastic.
Snow in a spilled globe.
The cast-off, spooned bones.
No longer necessary.
Necessary for such a short time.

@fringequest.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:35 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

Rich by R.S. Thomas I am a millionaire. My bedroom is full of gold light, of the sun’s jewellery. What shall I do with this wealth? Buy happiness, buy gladness, the wisdom that grows with the giving of thanks? I will convert a child's holding to the estate of a man, -->

@jackprestonking.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:45 AM

That's probably already a thing. Ugh.

@jackprestonking.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:33 AM

This is a great #Halloween #MagicaRealism short story, if I do say so myself. It's free to read on my author site, or if you're a Medium member I'd appreciate you reading/clapping there (published in The Mad River). Let the algorithm know fiction is not dead on Medium! medium.com/the-mad-rive...

@jymwrite.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:27 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

It's time to get some seasonal reading in! The Lion Communique has ghost stories, Southern Gothic, and a couple of horror (as well as speculative & literary fiction). tinyurl.com/mw8jun8k #booksky

@jackprestonking.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:21 AM

On our way home from grocery shopping this afternoon, after the third quirrel in 30 minutes fired out into the street in front of us, my wife commented, "It looks like October is national squirrel suicide month."

@dansturn.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:35 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

It’s time to go back out into the always

@pinkzombierose.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:53 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

A rutabaga carved with a New Orleans street scene. ⚜️🎃

@jackprestonking.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:36 PM

Mitch Horowitz's Occult America

#Occult #History #BookReview

buff.ly/oy4bjlZ

@cjaxon.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:25 PMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

@dansturn.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:34 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

The not quite happening may be more meaningful

@hookland.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:29 AMReposted by @jackprestonking.bsky.social

October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'