StephanieKMerrill
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her
Austin
Austin
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
(Jimi Hendrix. Today is his day.)
(Jimi Hendrix. Today is his day.)
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
(Jimi Hendrix. Today is his day.)
(Jimi Hendrix. Today is his day.)
"And when one day I can no longer see her, I will watch the hares in the field knowing that her being is woven into theirs, and that I have only to look up at night to see her symbol etched in the stars."
from RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton
#SundaySentence
from RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton
#SundaySentence
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"And when one day I can no longer see her, I will watch the hares in the field knowing that her being is woven into theirs, and that I have only to look up at night to see her symbol etched in the stars."
from RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton
#SundaySentence
from RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton
#SundaySentence
"They should have sent a poet."
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"They should have sent a poet."
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
You know who comes out splendidly at the end of MACBETH? The Witches. Today is their day.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
You know who comes out splendidly at the end of MACBETH? The Witches. Today is their day.
"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you." -Sylvia Plath (Today is her day.)
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you." -Sylvia Plath (Today is her day.)
"Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born."
- Doris Lessing. (Today is her day.)
- Doris Lessing. (Today is her day.)
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born."
- Doris Lessing. (Today is her day.)
- Doris Lessing. (Today is her day.)
Ursula K. Le Guin. Today is her day. Wise words here about gender neutral language from a literary elder.
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ursula K. Le Guin. Today is her day. Wise words here about gender neutral language from a literary elder.
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
(e. e. cummings. today is his day)
(e. e. cummings. today is his day)
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
(e. e. cummings. today is his day)
(e. e. cummings. today is his day)
Marina Tsvetaeva. Today is her day.
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Marina Tsvetaeva. Today is her day.
October 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." -Wallace Stevens (Today is his day.)
October 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." -Wallace Stevens (Today is his day.)
September 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Book mail!
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Book mail!
“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." -John Coltrane (Today is his day.)
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." -John Coltrane (Today is his day.)
But it's late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.
- Mary Oliver (Today is her day.)
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.
- Mary Oliver (Today is her day.)
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
But it's late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.
- Mary Oliver (Today is her day.)
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.
- Mary Oliver (Today is her day.)
"How strange a world... that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality... that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree."
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence
September 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"How strange a world... that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality... that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree."
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence
These salted licorice pastilles are the bomb.
September 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
These salted licorice pastilles are the bomb.
"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
-Howard Zinn (Today is his day.)
-Howard Zinn (Today is his day.)
August 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
-Howard Zinn (Today is his day.)
-Howard Zinn (Today is his day.)
National Black Cat Appreciation Day.
My Coltrane is celebrating.
My Coltrane is celebrating.
August 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
National Black Cat Appreciation Day.
My Coltrane is celebrating.
My Coltrane is celebrating.
Listen to The Great Horned Owl hoo-hooing at the Sturgeon Moon.
#thismoment
#thismoment
August 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Listen to The Great Horned Owl hoo-hooing at the Sturgeon Moon.
#thismoment
#thismoment
Great egret sighting on my morning walk in the arroyo on the outskirts of Austin.
August 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Great egret sighting on my morning walk in the arroyo on the outskirts of Austin.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
-George Orwell, 1984
-George Orwell, 1984
August 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
-George Orwell, 1984
-George Orwell, 1984
"Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'“
- Sylvia Plath
- Sylvia Plath
August 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'“
- Sylvia Plath
- Sylvia Plath