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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11h

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Bright periods alternate with gloom on a cool, cloudy morning, with an intermittent breeze paging through the tulip tree leaves. A sound like the clacking of a typewriter as a squirrel trots across the metal roof overhead.

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Bright periods alternate with gloom on a cool, cloudy morning, with an intermittent breeze paging through the tulip tree leaves. A sound like the clacking of a typewriter as a squirrel trots across the metal roof overhead.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 12h

And since 1967, the Israeli government has withheld the bodies of more than 730 deceased Palestinians from their families.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 12h

More than 9,000 Palestinians remain detained by the Israeli military across historic Palestine, including more than at least 450 children and 3,500 Palestinians held under administrative detention without charge.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 12h

A good summary of what we know and don't know about Peter Matthiesson's side hustle as a Cold War informant. www.leefang.com/p/was-famed-...

Was Famed Author Peter Matthiessen a Spy or an Informant?

The media avoids untangling the true story behind the man viewed as "one of the great literary libertines of the 20th century."

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 1d

mud season
the black dog shaking a shower off

#haiku

mud season

the black dog shaking a shower off

woodrat.vianegativa.us

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 1d

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Heavily gray skies at mid-morning. A tree cricket trills in the garden—a bright drone note. The wind goes past, releasing a small crowd of yellow leaves.

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Heavily gray skies at mid-morning. A tree cricket trills in the garden—a bright drone note. The wind goes past, releasing a small crowd of yellow leaves.

morningporch.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d

My new euphemism for taking a dump is 'publishing a truth social'. This morning I caught myself murmuring 'thank you for your attention to this matter' as I flushed it down.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering how to dream & more w/ @djvorreyer.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @carolee.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @stickpoet.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d

A Columbus Day edition of the digest with @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

www.vianegativa.us

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

www.vianegativa.us

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d

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Steady rain from heavy clouds, with the seeming glow of orange and yellow leaves in lieu of a sunrise. A drenched gray squirrel beside the porch peers up at the sky.

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Steady rain from heavy clouds, with the seeming glow of orange and yellow leaves in lieu of a sunrise. A drenched gray squirrel beside the porch peers up at the sky.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

this is how i want to hear every opposition politician talking

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 3d

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From hard rain to a shimmer of drizzle to almost-sun by late morning, I have sat with a wounded foot propped up on the porch railing like an unlucky rabbit, taking whatever comes.

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From hard rain to a shimmer of drizzle to almost-sun by late morning, I have sat with a wounded foot propped up on the porch railing like an unlucky rabbit, taking whatever comes.

morningporch.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 3d

I have that on my shelf but never read it. Maybe it's time.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 3d

Go Drop Site! Essential reporting from @ryangrim.bsky.social & company www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

CBS's Bari Weiss touted Free Press article as the "ground truth." Drop Site spoke to the actual families.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 4d

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The gibbous moon high overhead gives a ghostly second life to the white snakeroot in the yard, its seedy inflorescences seeming to bloom again. Then an air-braking 18-wheeler bellows for the dawn, and they begin to fade.

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The gibbous moon high overhead gives a ghostly second life to the white snakeroot in the yard, its seedy inflorescences seeming to bloom again. Then an air-braking 18-wheeler bellows for the dawn, and they begin to fade.

morningporch.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 5d

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Cloudy and cold at mid-morning. The high lisp of a brown creeper at the woods' edge. In the distance, a gray squirrel is airing a complaint about a hawk.

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Cloudy and cold at mid-morning. The high lisp of a brown creeper at the woods' edge. In the distance, a gray squirrel is airing a complaint about a hawk.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 6d

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Cold, clear, and quiet except for the crow in the road when I came out, who took several, labored wingbeats to reach his high-pitched cry.

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Cold, clear, and quiet except for the crow in the road when I came out, who took several, labored wingbeats to reach his high-pitched cry.

morningporch.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorite things about @rattlepoetry.bsky.social and the main reason why I continue to subscribe despite not really sharing their aesthetic is their consistent support for outsider poets, part-time and older poets www.rattle.com/if-we-knew-t...

If We Knew Then by Gil Arzola - Rattle: Poetry

what we know now then Ernie would never have paid attention in math class, he would have lived inside a daydream and counted the birds outside the window instead of calculating angles.

www.rattle.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 7d

By next year at this time, I'll probably be babbling about how I have to learn to align my creative energies with the divine feminine. Pray for me.

Alive

In a world as full of beauty as it is of horror, gods exist so that people have somewhere to direct their gratitude for being alive.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 7d

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Early-morning rain past, a chill breeze stirs in the tulip poplar beside the springhouse, four-lobed leaves waving like jazz hands on a thousand-armed bodhisattva, some green, some yellow.

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Early-morning rain past, a chill breeze stirs in the tulip poplar beside the springhouse, four-lobed leaves waving like jazz hands on a thousand-armed bodhisattva, some green, some yellow.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 8d

There is that. I am reading Marc McKee's great book Consolationeer this morning and feeling, yes, a little consoled, precisely because it is so eyes-open to the apocalyptic realities crowding into the frame.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 8d

Hey Jim. Yeah, Fay's translations don't always do it for me, but I loved that one

Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 8d

You bet!

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 8d

I looked to see how the 2017 book of #poetry I'm reading—CONSOLATIONEER by Marc McKee—was critically received & found this reviewer who read it on his daily commute in Chicago & realized that it illuminated his entire bus-riding experience
www.thelitpub.com/reviews-inte...

Consolationeer by Marc McKee — Moonlighting

Reading  Consolationeer  in this setting, however, was a serendipitous exception. If you live in a major US city with an unreliable and unpleasant public transit system, I can’t recommend th...

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