Emily Bludworth de Barrios
@emilybloodwolf.bsky.social
www.emilybludworthdebarrios.com
Building on the idea of a “toadstool,” Hera came up with a new name for mushrooms: “mouse’s umbrella”
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Building on the idea of a “toadstool,” Hera came up with a new name for mushrooms: “mouse’s umbrella”
I don’t that tv’s plugged in
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I don’t that tv’s plugged in
Any advice on securing the rights to use song lyrics as an epigraph in a lowly poetry book?
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Any advice on securing the rights to use song lyrics as an epigraph in a lowly poetry book?
I do like how, when there’s leftover cake in the house, for a few days there’s an alternative set of rules where you feel like it’s just fine to have a slice of a cake after breakfast, a slice of cake after lunch, don’t mind if I do, cake lining the edges of the entire day
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I do like how, when there’s leftover cake in the house, for a few days there’s an alternative set of rules where you feel like it’s just fine to have a slice of a cake after breakfast, a slice of cake after lunch, don’t mind if I do, cake lining the edges of the entire day
Hera’s been sending me messages by dropping a balloon weighted with a ballet slipper down the staircase
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hera’s been sending me messages by dropping a balloon weighted with a ballet slipper down the staircase
For the record, if you want to make someone feel very loved, make them a playlist or, better still, burn them a CD 💿 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
For the record, if you want to make someone feel very loved, make them a playlist or, better still, burn them a CD 💿 🙏
Hera: Guess what? Mermaids live up to 300 years
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hera: Guess what? Mermaids live up to 300 years
Walking into my daughter’s ballet class in the middle of downtown, watching all these fathers walking out, letting their daughters walk on the actual city sidewalks in their ballet slippers 👀 🩰
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Walking into my daughter’s ballet class in the middle of downtown, watching all these fathers walking out, letting their daughters walk on the actual city sidewalks in their ballet slippers 👀 🩰
Hera: I just saw a daisylion
Me: What’s a daisylion
Hera: A flower with a yellow pollen and the petals are white
Me: What’s a daisylion
Hera: A flower with a yellow pollen and the petals are white
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hera: I just saw a daisylion
Me: What’s a daisylion
Hera: A flower with a yellow pollen and the petals are white
Me: What’s a daisylion
Hera: A flower with a yellow pollen and the petals are white
Will always fondly remember my student who turned in his final poetry project with the title
“MY PEOMS!!!!!!”
“MY PEOMS!!!!!!”
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Will always fondly remember my student who turned in his final poetry project with the title
“MY PEOMS!!!!!!”
“MY PEOMS!!!!!!”
Was just recalling that the internet used to be called THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Was just recalling that the internet used to be called THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
I love David Bazan’s lyrics:
“I don’t like girls the way they are
So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars”
youtu.be/Z6D4FwgGwRE?...
“I don’t like girls the way they are
So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars”
youtu.be/Z6D4FwgGwRE?...
David Bazan - When They Really Get To Know You
YouTube video by undertow
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October 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I love David Bazan’s lyrics:
“I don’t like girls the way they are
So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars”
youtu.be/Z6D4FwgGwRE?...
“I don’t like girls the way they are
So shave their legs and make them look like movie stars”
youtu.be/Z6D4FwgGwRE?...
I love this but also this is an insane way to eat an orange ! 😌😇
Still Life with Peeled Orange and Bunch of Grapes, Albertus Steenbergen, late 19th century.⠀
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Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-peeled-orange-and-bunch-of-grapes
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Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-peeled-orange-and-bunch-of-grapes
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I love this but also this is an insane way to eat an orange ! 😌😇
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Still Life with Peeled Orange and Bunch of Grapes, Albertus Steenbergen, late 19th century.⠀
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Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-peeled-orange-and-bunch-of-grapes
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Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-peeled-orange-and-bunch-of-grapes
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Necesito encontrar a alguien que traduzca mis obras 👀😏☺️🥰
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Necesito encontrar a alguien que traduzca mis obras 👀😏☺️🥰
Am so pleased about “ear-shaped earrings”
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Am so pleased about “ear-shaped earrings”
When I was a kid there were things I loved so much that I couldn’t believe they existed
Things like
Cotton candy
Miniature paper cocktail umbrellas
Diaries with a tiny lock and a tiny key
Things like
Cotton candy
Miniature paper cocktail umbrellas
Diaries with a tiny lock and a tiny key
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When I was a kid there were things I loved so much that I couldn’t believe they existed
Things like
Cotton candy
Miniature paper cocktail umbrellas
Diaries with a tiny lock and a tiny key
Things like
Cotton candy
Miniature paper cocktail umbrellas
Diaries with a tiny lock and a tiny key
🥰 Houstonians:
Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🥰 Houstonians:
Hera: Ducks like to be near water. Like if you’re sweating, they’d go inside your armpit. It’s a joke!
October 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hera: Ducks like to be near water. Like if you’re sweating, they’d go inside your armpit. It’s a joke!
Reposted by Emily Bludworth de Barrios
virginia woolf could write
October 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
virginia woolf could write
I liked WEAPONS better than ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 😤
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I liked WEAPONS better than ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 😤
My goodness
Should I???
(In a poem)
Capitalize Internet
Or not capitalize Internet
(How old do I) (who was born in another century) (want to seem)
Should I???
(In a poem)
Capitalize Internet
Or not capitalize Internet
(How old do I) (who was born in another century) (want to seem)
October 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My goodness
Should I???
(In a poem)
Capitalize Internet
Or not capitalize Internet
(How old do I) (who was born in another century) (want to seem)
Should I???
(In a poem)
Capitalize Internet
Or not capitalize Internet
(How old do I) (who was born in another century) (want to seem)
“Your beautiful dresses disintegrated like your skin, loops of skin, dreams or years sloughed off”
From the poem GRANDMOTHER WORSHIP from my book RICH WIFE
Reading in Houston at Basket with Wayne Miller next week 🙏
From the poem GRANDMOTHER WORSHIP from my book RICH WIFE
Reading in Houston at Basket with Wayne Miller next week 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Your beautiful dresses disintegrated like your skin, loops of skin, dreams or years sloughed off”
From the poem GRANDMOTHER WORSHIP from my book RICH WIFE
Reading in Houston at Basket with Wayne Miller next week 🙏
From the poem GRANDMOTHER WORSHIP from my book RICH WIFE
Reading in Houston at Basket with Wayne Miller next week 🙏
Hera: I’m a tadpole — got it??
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m an egg
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m a frog egg
Me: Got it!
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m an egg
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m a frog egg
Me: Got it!
September 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hera: I’m a tadpole — got it??
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m an egg
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m a frog egg
Me: Got it!
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m an egg
Me: Got it!
Hera: Actually, I’m a frog egg
Me: Got it!