Kyla Houbolt
@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems
https://kylahoubolt.us
https://kylahoubolt.us
For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com
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November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
🌱 Basil, still putting up one green flowering shoot
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🌱 Basil, still putting up one green flowering shoot
#Poetry. In response to the fire at #COP30, this felt appropriate to share. For This Burning World, collected in *Becoming Altar* available from asterismbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
#Poetry. In response to the fire at #COP30, this felt appropriate to share. For This Burning World, collected in *Becoming Altar* available from asterismbooks.com
🌱 So that picture of the high-flying hawk I got yesterday was on the way to get this. Calendula, a late lone survivor! Mini-sun. Flower warrior.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌱 So that picture of the high-flying hawk I got yesterday was on the way to get this. Calendula, a late lone survivor! Mini-sun. Flower warrior.
Hawk up there! I was stepping down off the porch and looked up, it was flying toward the roofline, I hurried and pointed the phone camera and shot, sure I would only get a blur, but to my delight, there he is, old Hawk! A good omen for us all.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Hawk up there! I was stepping down off the porch and looked up, it was flying toward the roofline, I hurried and pointed the phone camera and shot, sure I would only get a blur, but to my delight, there he is, old Hawk! A good omen for us all.
I guess we can take the "pre" out and just say "order". I learned Asterism is now shipping copies of *Becoming Altar*! So go ahead and grab one, maybe a few to give as holiday gifts! Some people who don't usually read poetry like this book. (My family. Go figure.)
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I guess we can take the "pre" out and just say "order". I learned Asterism is now shipping copies of *Becoming Altar*! So go ahead and grab one, maybe a few to give as holiday gifts! Some people who don't usually read poetry like this book. (My family. Go figure.)
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
#Poetry -- a Monday poem: Money Over Easy, collected in *Becoming Altar*, preorders available from asterismbooks.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#Poetry -- a Monday poem: Money Over Easy, collected in *Becoming Altar*, preorders available from asterismbooks.com
🌱🙏 one night of freeze killed most flowers; then in immediately warm days some butterflies emerged. Not much to nectar on.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🌱🙏 one night of freeze killed most flowers; then in immediately warm days some butterflies emerged. Not much to nectar on.
🌿🌱 Another unknown wild plant, just now blooming in a protected space.
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🌿🌱 Another unknown wild plant, just now blooming in a protected space.
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
THE TOWN WHERE I GREW UP
collected in *Becoming Altar* preorders available from asterismbooks.com
THE TOWN WHERE I GREW UP
collected in *Becoming Altar* preorders available from asterismbooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
THE TOWN WHERE I GREW UP
collected in *Becoming Altar* preorders available from asterismbooks.com
THE TOWN WHERE I GREW UP
collected in *Becoming Altar* preorders available from asterismbooks.com
#Poetry -- Missing the Trick, from *Becoming Altar*, available for preorder here: asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#Poetry -- Missing the Trick, from *Becoming Altar*, available for preorder here: asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems
But then, through the window, this appeared.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
But then, through the window, this appeared.
I've been mostly gone from here for what feels like days, though I lost track. I've been pretty sick but definitely on the mend today, and eating! a little. A victory for the body. I missed you. (More about the picture in the alt.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I've been mostly gone from here for what feels like days, though I lost track. I've been pretty sick but definitely on the mend today, and eating! a little. A victory for the body. I missed you. (More about the picture in the alt.)
The kind of stuff my sister gets up to. (Didn't there used to be a dance called the Funky Chicken?) These, she says, are coasters.
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The kind of stuff my sister gets up to. (Didn't there used to be a dance called the Funky Chicken?) These, she says, are coasters.
🌱 November bee-happy cosmos
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🌱 November bee-happy cosmos
#Poetry -- Owl
Here's a seasonal-appropriate poem, first published in Claw and Blossom, and now in *Becoming Altar*, and no, I was not thinking of One Art when I wrote it, though obv. I must have read the thing:
Here's a seasonal-appropriate poem, first published in Claw and Blossom, and now in *Becoming Altar*, and no, I was not thinking of One Art when I wrote it, though obv. I must have read the thing:
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#Poetry -- Owl
Here's a seasonal-appropriate poem, first published in Claw and Blossom, and now in *Becoming Altar*, and no, I was not thinking of One Art when I wrote it, though obv. I must have read the thing:
Here's a seasonal-appropriate poem, first published in Claw and Blossom, and now in *Becoming Altar*, and no, I was not thinking of One Art when I wrote it, though obv. I must have read the thing:
#Poetry
I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.
I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
#Poetry
I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.
I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.
So look who decided to show up a day earlier than the tracking said.
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So look who decided to show up a day earlier than the tracking said.