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Mother goose—notes app poem, may 2023

Geese cannot pick up their young and take flight, lifting them into the air; all they can do is swim, carrying the goslings through the water atop their backs. First-year geese have a survival rate of 50-70 percent. Geese mate for life and love their young fiercely. They are quite emotional creatures. Three geese sitting atop posts like sentinels  watch as two goslings below the dam swim against the tide crashing into the falling water over and over fighting to get back to where they were. No way to go but down. They settle on a rocky clearing above the water, tired and wet, shaking the water off of their backs—unaware. The mother goose looks at me and calls to me  (we don’t share a language— but I understand her desperate cry for help). She lays down flat on the post, despondent and resigned. The flock comes to her and surrounds her. I cannot look away or leave; we are bearing witness. Cruelest world takes life every day, and sometimes there is nothing we can do but watch.

@taterhole

Mar 7, 2025

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Puddle-wonderful

ever since i read this poem by e e cummings many years ago the phrase “puddle-wonderful” has been a permanent feature of my vocabulary. happy spring everyone! also love the queer goat footed man, me asf

@kirstenmjens

Mar 21, 2025

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Bird Transformation — after Ana Mendieta

I’ve been revising this poem for years and it was finally picked up in Passengers!

@florinegrassenhopper

Jul 25, 2024

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Analog sunday

No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“ This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.

@florinegrassenhopper

Jan 22, 2025

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Writing down the things that bring you joy

My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will. heres some of what I have so far: - Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company. - Strawberry jam - feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently. - A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love - Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie - Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk - lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts - small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.

@florinegrassenhopper

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