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Isaac Pickell
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black & jewish poet & phd student in Detroit | work @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and @blacklawrence.bsky.social and @deadmallpress.bsky.social | Cave Canem fellow | just very glad to be here.
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I've shared this with no less than ten people offline today.

Three have responded with "I love you."

Seems like a pretty good ratio.
tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d
happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk
Stay alive; at least for the moment: it doesn’t last long. Stay alive. Other worldly considerations though are out. The living has nothing to do with the life.
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I've shared this with no less than ten people offline today.

Three have responded with "I love you."

Seems like a pretty good ratio.
tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d
happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk
Stay alive; at least for the moment: it doesn’t last long. Stay alive. Other worldly considerations though are out. The living has nothing to do with the life.
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A yarn, a texture I needed today.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to—

We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.
Settle/ment after Christina Sharpe People will keep saying that white supremacy is setting, these are death throes. People will say hold close what you can and mean the big things that hold us back; this low-slung sun-glare splaying out for the horizon can’t be solved with shade. A site of refuge doesn’t look like compromise. Just to have a little shine. But I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm—We weren’t meant to be bargain- ing chips. Take it, and what will our dead have left to say besides live.
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Tom Snarsky with a very fitting #smallpoemsunday

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Sunday is the foxes’ day of rest. It’s going to get harder, no minimum, reckless angels forgetting their power.
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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A poem for the cold for #smallpoemsunday

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Internet stalking myself until spring For the cold, indulge in glimpses— but for flowers rearing the sun, stalks bright and coaxing heat, jump into bodies of water without her, a tumbling gully-rush into who I am, who I am—I don’t take photos with anyone else.
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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We aren't dinosaurs.
Chicxulub Mammals made it out the other side of firestorms and months of night and our scars won’t be easy- petaled over by time— cold stone, clipped wing, state violence, stagnant wages. Yes, this world is burning, but what waits on the other side of fever. May be a summer’s sun, the drifting smell of asters the proud green of June leaves repeating take care.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I got something very special in the mail today from my publisher ✨

You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine

edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, translators and editors. (Copper Canyon Press, 2025).

💜thank you for not looking away💜 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A very #smallpoemsunday.

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When you know The smell of tired blossom; how musty sweet are endings. A ruin of color. You say beauty is anything—to see the same yellow moon rising and not mention it.
September 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM