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"This cool, grey-laddered girl,
these jewels, this bowl of quivering silver pearls."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry
The Short-toed Eagle and the Ladder Snake consider each other, unseen by James Mcconachie (2025 Bad Lilies) https://www.badlilies.uk/james-mcconachie
"Whatever it was that failed,
its echo haunts us
with a sound like shed skins
blown through abandoned corridors."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Cycle by George Amabile from Seeing Things (2025 Signature Editions) https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/seeing-things-by-george-amabile
"You who care for the faceless
I who have lost my face
Bat grazes the moon
At night she woke. There was a bat in her room."
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from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loneliness_of_Sonia_and_Sunny
"It was worth believing in an impossible story of God, so when death occurred and the impossible happened, you already believed that anything could be true, and if you believed in heaven, you would be so much less sad."
#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) https://calirb.com/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai/
'While for his part, David barreled ahead, speaking with his trademark urgency, attention to detail, and utter disregard for whether what he was saying was furthering or confounding his purpose.'
Eve in Hollywood
Amor Towles
#SundaySentence #AmorTowles #bookstodon
"I'll multiply and I'll increase
As I always have---by mere caprice;
For I am a queen and I am a bee,
I'm devil-may-care and I'm fancy-free"
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Song of the Queen Bee by E.B. White (1945 The @NewYorker) http://www.badbeekeeping.com/ebwhite.htm
"The dye lots were registered in memory:
appleskin, chocolate, porcelain pan,
the stitches remembered like faded rhymes:
pineapple, sunflower, window pane, shell."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Crochet by Jan Mordenski from Quiet Music: A Plainsong Reader (1995 Plainsong Press) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53578/crochet
"soon she will find
the Garden of Eden
where she will pluck
the thornless roses to
offer a god who will
not shame her for
her desire to know"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Not made of rib, but ocean by @AmandaEarl (2026 League of Canadian Poets) https://poets.ca/not-made-of-rib-but-ocean-by-amanda-earl/
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