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'Ice to Slush Acrostic' by Brennan Rae

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Poem rec, February 4 2025: 'The Famine of Love' by Jenneva Scholz

"Re-reading her letters / I think, I’m so hungry I could let you starve. / It’s hard to know yourself anymore / when you can think a thing like that."

Read the full thing here (https://www.rattle.com/the-famine-of-love-by-jenneva-scholz/)

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'Us as Kindling Snuffed' by Brennan Rae.

I've been doing Abecedarian poems for a while, but after seeing @two-bees-poetry's work, I really wanted to try out a contrapuntal poem. It ended up being a kind of what-if on Hirschfeld's institute, which I've been thinking about a lot recently, what with current events.

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Poem rec, February 3 2025: 'Abel's Last Words to Cain', by Agnieszka Tworek

"Brother, you could still bring me back / to life to love to light / if you don’t bomb the hospital / where my pregnant wife prays / that our newborn son’s first cry / won’t be his last"

Read the full thing here (https://www.rattle.com/abels-last-words-to-cain-by-agnieszka-tworek/)

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MIDWINTER RECKONING, OR, by Brennan Rae

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WHOOPSIE ! kinda half-forgot to do stuff here.

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just a gal and her book of poetry.

order at alianworld.us/books.

<3

alia

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Poem rec, January 18 2025: 'After', by Jane Clarke

"Now that her heart is bent over / like larkspur after a storm, // she stays in bed past milking time, / pulling the quilt  // tight around her shoulders"

Read the full poem here (https://www.rattle.com/after-by-jane-clarke/)

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Poem rec, January 15 2025: 'Song of the Worm', by Eliza Cook.

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Poem rec, January 14 2025: 'Having a Great Time Being Transgender in American Lately', by Jackie Sabbagh

"It is day infinity / of everyone wanting me dead. People are having fun / bringing lemon squares and automatic artillery to the anti-trans community meetings."

Read the full thing here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162705/having-a-great-time-being-transgender-in-america-lately)

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Poem rec, January 13 2025: 'An Argument Against Cynicism', by Jen DeGregorio.

"What surprises me more than a new / millipede species was discovered this week / in Los Angeles County is that anyone cares / enough about millipedes to look for them."

Read the full poem here (https://www.rattle.com/an-argument-against-cynicism-by-jen-degregorio/)

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Poem Rec, January 12 2025: 'Going Home the Longest Way Around', by Pat Schneider

"It’s what we love the most / can make us most afraid, can make us / for the first time understand / how we are rocking in a dark boat on the water, / taking the long way home."

Full poem can be read here, or at https://poets.org/poem/going-home-longest-way-around

This poem lives in my head rent free. Cannot recommend it enough.

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Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), displaying, family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Brazil

This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

Photograph by Mergulho na contemplação

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Puna Flamingo or James's Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), family Phoenicopteridae, order Phoenicopteriformes, NW Argentina

photograph by Naturalist Journeys, LLC

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camprobber

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Untitled Tricube about winter, Brennan Rae

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thank you for all your posts. i love seeing all these animals

Bless you my child. Here is a special friend for you.

Brown Boobook aka Brown Hawk Owl (Ninox scutulata), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Digvijay Lande