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Sam Rasnake

@samrasnake.bsky.social

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Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm pleased to have a new poem at @harpyhybrid.bsky.social - "All That Disappears"
"Rivers, sunsets, mountains, highways find their end –"

Special thanks to the editors.
www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works...

All That Disappears – Harpy Hybrid Review

www.harpyhybridreview.org

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much for including my poem "Glass Alphabet"! The glass never ends.

Maxwell I. Gold @cybergodwrites.bsky.social · 8d

I am pleased to share the ToC for the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XII!

It has been an honor to curate this volume for the last 2 years and read the incredible poetry in our horror community.

@jonathanmaberry.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social

thewellsoftheweird.com/2025/10/05/h...

Explore the Haunting HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XII Table of Contents

Explore the haunting verses in HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XII! Discover top horror-themed poetry curated by esteemed judges.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 11h

PJ Harvey, “Written on the Forehead”
🎵
youtu.be/VRuEkDuD7ps

Written On The Forehead

YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 11h

Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir., 1966

One of the greatest films ever made. On my short list of favorites.
📽️🎬

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 11h

If I speak for the dead, I must leave
this animal of my body,

I must write the same poem over and over,
for an empty page is the white flag of their surrender.

If I speak for them, I must walk on the edge
of myself, I must live as a blind man

who runs through rooms...
Ilya Kaminsky
#poetry

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

🖼️ Edith Holden

Dead leaves
Elm, Oak
Beech
Chesnut, and Sycamore.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 23h

I am so captivated by this track, and it does indeed defy conventional genre descriptions—
That’s so wonderful you got to team up with your son, and I love the result.

Recommended listening!
#ClassicalMusic #jazz

The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social · 1d

My new Elysian Fields' electric viola da album features a duo called 'Dark Dreaming' with my son Seebz Pogson. He also wrote the track. I am so lucky to get to play with him! Video by James Fraser

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYP4...

Dark Dreaming - Elysian Fields

YouTube video by Elysian Fields

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 4d

"...that reminded me of my dad helping me put on my wobbly ice skates, before he left my mother for terrible Claudia,...."

I love this stellar piece of writing by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💙

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3d

"Empowerment means you know how to have fun, but you take absolutely no shit."

Don't miss contributor Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social's THE SADDEST FUCKERS OF ALL in Ghost Parachute: buff.ly/vUgT2P3

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 16h

a work-in-progress poem with too many characters in its title to fit in this bsky box...

STATUE OF A VAGUELY KNOWN BLACK POET FROM
SOMEWHERE ONLINE REPLACES STATUE OF A
TREASONOUS WHITE HERO FROM A NOT-SO-
DISTANT RACE WAR BUT NEITHER FIGURE EVER
HELD THE PIGEONS AT BAY & NEITHER DID THE
PIGEONS EVER TRULY GIVE A FUCK: MERRY-GO-
ROUND AS POLITICAL THEATER… OR MAYBE
SOMETHING-SOMETHING ABOUT HOW MODERN
SOCIETY’S MADE “MERIT” A COMMODITY? IDK — A
POEM ABOUT HEEDLESSNESS.

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in this poem i am cast in marble twenty feet fall standing napoleon-style atop a triumph,
a thruxton to be correct, “i am a cowboy in the boat of ra” is tattooed across my back —
unseen — for my statue wears a billowing dress shirt and does not have on a backwards
ball cap. in this statue i am black in white marble marbled lightly with blue veins like
good cheese tho i am not as salty (perhaps except within my creases of neck and behind
the ears); head tossed back, however, in laughter with neither head nor laugh attached
to a body for there is no neck (so not salty?) - as surreal as it is serene; meanwhile, in
open secret the shoulder-sitting pigeons remain vigilantly shitting, insider trading as
they go about cooing the best locations for breadcrumbs with the least competition (an
avian No Crows Club)
this poem’s about americana in the unassailable likeness of my riveting culture

2.
“but why no neck?” question the whitest of critics for whom unblemished marble was
made artisanal by Polyclitus or Phidias (or sumsuch) as sacrosanct as a birthright; “if
this is, as you say, about culture then why no befitting place below your wafting head to
sustain a proper lynch? i think your black poems are a lie; leave us this instant!

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the answer is in my silence… the space between stanzas…
you see, this poem is about the worth of whiteness without its canonical cord of rope
and your serif of knotting hymn as i was never the vessel for your hoped-fors.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 1d

Raymond Carver:

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 6d

I have dark moments, I suppose. #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #emilydickinson

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch photographer Nona Limmen
#Photography

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.

Happy saturn's day to all who celebrate.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfJ0...

Helpless

YouTube video by Nick Cave - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

Let us return to our own case, the duel between the visible and the invisible, the reporting of which threatens to carry us away. And let that which follows be the logical prologue of a highly meaningful adventure in which the cipher-concealing fables served as an excuse to the forces that would like to see me invisible, and which concealed my cipher beneath images of scandalous visibility.
—Jean Cocteau, Diary of an Unknown

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)

Judgment Call

In the book I'm reading, a woman wakes up every morning and asks herself:

What will I do to make myself happy today?

I decide to stop reading the book.

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 4d

“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies”

New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !

Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 4d

I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).

gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 1d

How about a memoir to close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor Erin Slaughter’s memoir THE DEAD DAD DIARIES is out now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social 💗 Get your copy now: buff.ly/gIYuqsL

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 3d

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 19h

Nightwatcher

You hardly feel worthless. You sit under tungsten light, thinking about the salsa in the fridge, the day you left him, liquid soap slipping from your hands like blood. You are not the moth. But you carry its ever-churning wings in your mouth. It flits in dark places when the blue…

Nightwatcher

You hardly feel worthless. You sit under tungsten light, thinking about the salsa in the fridge, the day you left him, liquid soap slipping from your hands like blood. You are not the moth. But you carry its ever-churning wings in your mouth. It flits in dark places when the blue rooftop moon regresses, snatching fingers that furrow cheeks in dread.

eunoiareview.wordpress.com

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 12h

Love his work.
"There is an otherness inside us
We never touch,
no matter how far down our hands reach."
CW, from The Southern Cross

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 21h

October humidity
Like a heart-red tower light,
now bright, now not so bright.

Autumn night at the end of the world.

Charles Wright, from The Sestets

We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure

No wind-sighs. And rain-splatter heaves up over the mountains, and dies out.
October humidity
Like a heart-red tower light,
now bright, now not so bright.
Autumn night at the end of the world.
In its innermost corridors,
all damp and all light are gone, and love, too.
Amber does not remember the pine.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 23h