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Jacob Siefring

@jsief.bsky.social

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public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of some books (FR->EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 10h

drifting off to sleep, a little involuntary closed-eye visualization, as a treat

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 10h

how conmon are closed-eye visual hallucinations while on the verge of sleep? i have had them sometimes, thought they were common or universal. judging from the way my family looked at me earlier, i think not

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 15h

unpretentious too. i like it

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 15h

sounds like a lot of work. easier & more ergonomic to just exaggerate a lil.

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 20h

thanks, dan!

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 23h

yes, indeed. i’ve been collecting JW’s publications for going on a decade

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 23h

in further Jargon Society siftings—Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization’ (1962). i’m only so far into it but i kind of get the feeling that BF is full of shit here. or maybe that’s just the righteous, self-admiring Black Mountain charlatan quotient (cf Olson)

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 2d

i didn’t get on with the fiction at all, but i appreciate the epically disgruntled, ruthlessly self-pitying & self-lacerating alcoholic journals

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 3d

I started off in the bright
and missing moment

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 4d

There’s an eluded life within

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 9d

Will time always be
caught up In the structure of light

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

trying to devise an ethical system of groundhog management. troubling

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 5d

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room."

Vintage paperback book cover of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely, c. 1943.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 5d

“Although I write about the world of the eternal, please do not get the impression that I have been there myself.”

(found in an old Romanian magazine from the 1930s; author name indecipherable)

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 5d

the vapors at upper duck island

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 5d

fog

Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 5d

cloud cuckoo land

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 6d

the postal situation up here in canada is Not Good. it will return but no one will ever have confidence in it again

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 6d

oh no! i’m terribly sorry to hear that. i am thinking of him & you & hoping for him to get the treatment & recovery he needs

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 6d

i didn’t know he had a book coming out! this looks rad

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 6d

Dan Elkind's DR. CHIZHEVSKY'S CHANDELIER is terrific. If you're in Atlanta on Oct 18 you should go to A Cappella Books to hear him talk about it.
www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...

www.acappellabooks.com

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 7d

looking at animals, as here, a rooster. i wonder if they can lie? i think not

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 7d

I hope the Nobel goes to an elderly poet who we all assumed had died years ago.

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