A.D. Harper
@adharper.bsky.social
Poetry. // Prose.
Words in The Manchester Review, The Shore, Bending Genres, Dream Pop, The Interpreter's House, Cordite, and others.
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Words in The Manchester Review, The Shore, Bending Genres, Dream Pop, The Interpreter's House, Cordite, and others.
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31/31
Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs
"Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs
"Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
31/31
Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs
"Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs
"Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
30/31
Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement
"We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement
"We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
30/31
Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement
"We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement
"We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
29/31
Carol Ann Duffy – Politics
"They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Carol Ann Duffy – Politics
"They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
29/31
Carol Ann Duffy – Politics
"They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Carol Ann Duffy – Politics
"They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
28/31
Ian Seed – Night Window
"My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Ian Seed – Night Window
"My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
28/31
Ian Seed – Night Window
"My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Ian Seed – Night Window
"My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Reposted by A.D. Harper
"still there's scones however you pronounce them or plain toast
for those unwilling to risk error"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff
for those unwilling to risk error"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff
A.D. Harper — Tentacular
Two Poems
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August 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"still there's scones however you pronounce them or plain toast
for those unwilling to risk error"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff
for those unwilling to risk error"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff
27/31
Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment
"His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment
"His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
27/31
Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment
"His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment
"His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
26/31
Rae Armantrout – Go Figure
"AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Rae Armantrout – Go Figure
"AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
26/31
Rae Armantrout – Go Figure
"AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Rae Armantrout – Go Figure
"AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
25/31
Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman
"Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman
"Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
25/31
Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman
"Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman
"Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
24/31
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
24/31
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
23/31
James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River
"They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River
"They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
23/31
James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River
"They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River
"They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
22/31
Louise Glück – The Wild Iris
"More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Louise Glück – The Wild Iris
"More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
22/31
Louise Glück – The Wild Iris
"More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Louise Glück – The Wild Iris
"More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
21/31
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
"Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning / to rise from the chair as soon I finish this sentence." ('Prayer')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
"Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning / to rise from the chair as soon I finish this sentence." ('Prayer')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
21/31
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
"Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning / to rise from the chair as soon I finish this sentence." ('Prayer')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Marie Howe – The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
"Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning / to rise from the chair as soon I finish this sentence." ('Prayer')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
20/31
Anne Sexton – The Death Notebooks
"I could eat the sky / like an apple / but I'd rather / ask the first star: / why am I here? / why do I live in this house? / who's responsible? / eh?" ('The Fury of Sunsets')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Anne Sexton – The Death Notebooks
"I could eat the sky / like an apple / but I'd rather / ask the first star: / why am I here? / why do I live in this house? / who's responsible? / eh?" ('The Fury of Sunsets')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
20/31
Anne Sexton – The Death Notebooks
"I could eat the sky / like an apple / but I'd rather / ask the first star: / why am I here? / why do I live in this house? / who's responsible? / eh?" ('The Fury of Sunsets')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Anne Sexton – The Death Notebooks
"I could eat the sky / like an apple / but I'd rather / ask the first star: / why am I here? / why do I live in this house? / who's responsible? / eh?" ('The Fury of Sunsets')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
19/31
W.B. Yeats – Crossways
"The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; / My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart / That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold" ('The Meditation of the Old Fisherman')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
W.B. Yeats – Crossways
"The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; / My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart / That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold" ('The Meditation of the Old Fisherman')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
19/31
W.B. Yeats – Crossways
"The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; / My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart / That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold" ('The Meditation of the Old Fisherman')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
W.B. Yeats – Crossways
"The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; / My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart / That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold" ('The Meditation of the Old Fisherman')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
18/31
Alice Oswald – Memorial
"There was a blue pool who loved her loneliness / Lay on her stones clear-eyed staring at trees / Her name was Abarbarea"
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Alice Oswald – Memorial
"There was a blue pool who loved her loneliness / Lay on her stones clear-eyed staring at trees / Her name was Abarbarea"
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
18/31
Alice Oswald – Memorial
"There was a blue pool who loved her loneliness / Lay on her stones clear-eyed staring at trees / Her name was Abarbarea"
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Alice Oswald – Memorial
"There was a blue pool who loved her loneliness / Lay on her stones clear-eyed staring at trees / Her name was Abarbarea"
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
17/31
Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
"Re-turning time-turned words, / Fitting each weathered song / To a new-grooved harmony, / They pluck slick strings and swing / A sad heart's equilibrium." ('The Folk Singers'')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
"Re-turning time-turned words, / Fitting each weathered song / To a new-grooved harmony, / They pluck slick strings and swing / A sad heart's equilibrium." ('The Folk Singers'')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
17/31
Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
"Re-turning time-turned words, / Fitting each weathered song / To a new-grooved harmony, / They pluck slick strings and swing / A sad heart's equilibrium." ('The Folk Singers'')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
"Re-turning time-turned words, / Fitting each weathered song / To a new-grooved harmony, / They pluck slick strings and swing / A sad heart's equilibrium." ('The Folk Singers'')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
16/31
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
16/31
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
15/31
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
"The first crisp tool in a small set of / perfect lockpicks this slick / wasp learns how to twist / is time." ('To the Cuckoo Paper Wasp')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
"The first crisp tool in a small set of / perfect lockpicks this slick / wasp learns how to twist / is time." ('To the Cuckoo Paper Wasp')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
15/31
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
"The first crisp tool in a small set of / perfect lockpicks this slick / wasp learns how to twist / is time." ('To the Cuckoo Paper Wasp')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Robyn Schiff – Information Desk
"The first crisp tool in a small set of / perfect lockpicks this slick / wasp learns how to twist / is time." ('To the Cuckoo Paper Wasp')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
14/31
Camille Ralphs – After You Were, I Am
"Consolation of a prize, / soothing sight for see-sore eyes, / sooth, and say, some truthfulness." ('Veni Sancte Spiritus')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Camille Ralphs – After You Were, I Am
"Consolation of a prize, / soothing sight for see-sore eyes, / sooth, and say, some truthfulness." ('Veni Sancte Spiritus')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
14/31
Camille Ralphs – After You Were, I Am
"Consolation of a prize, / soothing sight for see-sore eyes, / sooth, and say, some truthfulness." ('Veni Sancte Spiritus')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Camille Ralphs – After You Were, I Am
"Consolation of a prize, / soothing sight for see-sore eyes, / sooth, and say, some truthfulness." ('Veni Sancte Spiritus')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
13/31
Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light" ('Howl')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light" ('Howl')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
13/31
Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light" ('Howl')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light" ('Howl')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
12/31
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
"Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— / The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees." ('The Bee Meeting')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
"Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— / The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees." ('The Bee Meeting')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
12/31
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
"Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— / The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees." ('The Bee Meeting')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
"Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— / The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees." ('The Bee Meeting')
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
11/31
Raymond Antrobus – Signs, Music
"The second word my son signed / was _bird_ - beaked finger to thumb, bird / for everything outside – window, sky, tree, / roof, chimney, aerial, airplane – birds." The New Father)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Raymond Antrobus – Signs, Music
"The second word my son signed / was _bird_ - beaked finger to thumb, bird / for everything outside – window, sky, tree, / roof, chimney, aerial, airplane – birds." The New Father)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
11/31
Raymond Antrobus – Signs, Music
"The second word my son signed / was _bird_ - beaked finger to thumb, bird / for everything outside – window, sky, tree, / roof, chimney, aerial, airplane – birds." The New Father)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Raymond Antrobus – Signs, Music
"The second word my son signed / was _bird_ - beaked finger to thumb, bird / for everything outside – window, sky, tree, / roof, chimney, aerial, airplane – birds." The New Father)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
10/31
Paul Muldoon – Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
"Now Pliny's depiction of druids in their white mantles / cutting down mistletoe with golden sickles / has the Emperor lean back on the cantle / of his saddle." (Artichokes and Truffles)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Paul Muldoon – Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
"Now Pliny's depiction of druids in their white mantles / cutting down mistletoe with golden sickles / has the Emperor lean back on the cantle / of his saddle." (Artichokes and Truffles)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
10/31
Paul Muldoon – Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
"Now Pliny's depiction of druids in their white mantles / cutting down mistletoe with golden sickles / has the Emperor lean back on the cantle / of his saddle." (Artichokes and Truffles)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Paul Muldoon – Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
"Now Pliny's depiction of druids in their white mantles / cutting down mistletoe with golden sickles / has the Emperor lean back on the cantle / of his saddle." (Artichokes and Truffles)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
9/31
Jack Underwood – A Year in the New Life
"Love has always been a loss / of risklessness, like a new sky installed, / huge and ceramic, an orchestral silence / behind each door." (Breckland)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Jack Underwood – A Year in the New Life
"Love has always been a loss / of risklessness, like a new sky installed, / huge and ceramic, an orchestral silence / behind each door." (Breckland)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9/31
Jack Underwood – A Year in the New Life
"Love has always been a loss / of risklessness, like a new sky installed, / huge and ceramic, an orchestral silence / behind each door." (Breckland)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Jack Underwood – A Year in the New Life
"Love has always been a loss / of risklessness, like a new sky installed, / huge and ceramic, an orchestral silence / behind each door." (Breckland)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
8/31
Lucie Brock-Broido – Stay, Illusion
"Everything I ever wished for— / A Dalmation bounding spotted through the snow." (Medieval Warm Time)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lucie Brock-Broido – Stay, Illusion
"Everything I ever wished for— / A Dalmation bounding spotted through the snow." (Medieval Warm Time)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
August 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
8/31
Lucie Brock-Broido – Stay, Illusion
"Everything I ever wished for— / A Dalmation bounding spotted through the snow." (Medieval Warm Time)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge
Lucie Brock-Broido – Stay, Illusion
"Everything I ever wished for— / A Dalmation bounding spotted through the snow." (Medieval Warm Time)
#SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge