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Mostly poetry and soccer from an antifascist, neurodivergent, genderqueer, Christian heretic perspective. Also practical and impractical uses of language and images in and out of our current context, and an item a day from the published archives.

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226 Press @226press.bsky.social · Nov 14

Books: 226press.com/books.html Videos: 226press.com/videos.html poetry book reviews: philart.net/chrispurdom/...

226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 7h

Ready for #HellIsReal on FS1 so I don’t have to fuss with AppleTV. Getting to listen to the Fox folks call the Union the best team in the league while talking up everybody but. We’re from Phillip, F’ing Philly. #DOOP

226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 18h

Today's #poetry reading video is "And all that's implied" from "And all that’s implied".
The book is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/485246160

And all that's implied

Christopher William Purdom reads "And all that's implied" from "And all that's implied" on 226press.com

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 18h

Shaking off stardust,
re-calibrating
to the highest timeline.

A waking human—
a walking avatar,
coming back
online.

#Poetry #Poem #Skypoet

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of people say that Garfield shouldn’t hate Mondays because he’s a cat and doesn’t have a job and is therefore useless but what people don’t realize is that Garfield’s unspoken lust is to emulate humanity to the point he became bipedal so of course he’d dream of a soul crushing office job

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 18h

"If they come for trans people, I will not be able to leave. I feel like a plastic mug, I am bound to certain places. My mother says I should not be afraid of the fascists. I ask my father if he still loves me if I cannot work."

—Willow Bram Desjardins

anmly.org/ap41/willow-...

Willow Bram Desjardins – ANMLY

anmly.org

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PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning, beautiful people.

hoarfrost
and
an
orange
pumpkin

caw
of
crows

dead
of
winter
Arriving
soon

but
first
the
thinning
veil

🫖☕️🥰

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23h

RENEGADE (Palindrome)

Named a general,
war began.
Amid, I manage, brawl,
a renegade man.

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 18h

first autumn fire
a single fruit fly
becomes a spark

#haiku #nature

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 19h

I walk in
to a well-choreographed
crime scene—
dressage of fear,
blood splattered here
& there

until my eyes adjust
& I realise
it's rose petals
everywhere

overcome by
a crimson layer
of lust—
undressing begun
as I move
to the bedroom

my clothes,
more evidence
of misdeeds committed
in the dark.

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226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 19h

Indiana and Milan #DOOP in the 70th and 75th. Chicago comes back in the 84th and 93rd (Longshanks with an eyepatch). Ooh Ah is blocked on the first PK. But The Brick Wall blocks one, the crossbar blocks another, and Good Jesus puts home the 4th for the Zolos W. Come on the U.

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226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #poetry reading video is "Fear flings you upward" from "And all that’s implied".
The book is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/485242744

Fear flings you upward

Christopher William Purdom reads "Fear flings you upward" from "And all that's implied" on 226press.com

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southernfairy1.bsky.social @southernfairy1.bsky.social · 8d

Badger carries the old moon out of the month.

NewMoon 21 October.
Art by Jackie Morris

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

Words do not veil but reveal. Words do not reveal but veil.

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We know the world as a translation.

-Eric Pankey

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 2d

On one of many
Rambles, blackberries born of
Brambles, entangled.
#whistpr #bramble #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 2d

“Is it possible this field is forgotten…?” A poem by Karen Fish.

FLAMES BEHIND YOUR HEAD

This is where the bees and wasps spiral.
Is it possible this field is forgotten,
that no one has pruned these fruit trees
in fifty years? The old pear trees are too tall
for any ladder, the gesture of scraggly limbs
gorgeous against the height of those storm clouds
mettling the distance.
There are the white blossoms which open
the sky like rain in September,
softening like all those returnings;
to school, to home, to evening, to the falling
backwards, murmuring green to brown—lost to
sleep in the deep humming collapse of grass,
the earth, a fragrant grave.

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 2d

I bullied myself,
Slashing skin, overdosing,
A weak freak, they said.
#emoetry #weak #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

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Just a Silvia @theladysilvia.bsky.social · 2d

#emoetry #weak

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

Poem

Sometimes
everything
seems
so
oh, I don't know.

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226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 1d

It’s First Game of the Playoffs #DOOP Day down by the river under the bridge. Snakes/Zolos/Boys in Blue/Union vs. Fire. Philly vs. Occupied Chicago. Live from Subaru Park at 5:30 pm on FS1 and AppleTV with a Season Pass. Everybody tie your shoes.

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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 2d

A Saturday big read...

Jay Sugarman wants the Union to get more respect, and knows winning MLS Cup will make that happen.

The biggest prize "feels like the one thing we haven’t quite gotten our hands on,” he says.

And he knows the pressure there is to get it:

www.inquirer.com/soccer/phila...

Jay Sugarman wants the Union to get more respect, and knows winning MLS Cup will make that happen

As the Union return to the playoffs, the team's principal owner knows the biggest prize "feels like the one thing we haven’t quite gotten our hands on.” And he knows the pressure there is to get it.

www.inquirer.com

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226 Press @226press.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #poetry reading video is "One side is ever" from "And all that’s implied".
The book is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/485242086

One side is ever

Christopher William Purdom reads "One side is ever" from "And all that's implied" on 226press.com

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William David Maxwell @emersynlaughs.bsky.social · 3d

"There is a darkness that eats sound and swallows the stars. It is other, incomprehensible, to see a glimpse is enough to shatter your mind. Past veils of choice, it waits, and it watches. Your vision passes it by, but it sees you entirely. Ravenous for your life."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”

@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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UkuleleCLE @ukulelecle.bsky.social · 2d

Revenge is sweet and
A dish best served cold so the
Vengeful choose ice cream

#emoetry #haiku

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