Finally got my contributor’s copy of @NimrodJournal in the mail. With Canada’s sovereignty now in peril, it feels like the right time to share this poem about disability and the slippery slope of gun ownership again.

Epigraph to The Writing on the Wall: 108 American Poems of Protest (1969).

RT @BorisDralyuk: It is a bleak, heartbreaking time for Ukrainians—and for all US citizens who understand that it is not only cowardly but…

Emerson

@NiallCPoetry @Poetry_London @NimrodJournal Happy to, Niall. It's a splendid poem.

Reminded again of this poem by Rae Armantrout.

A final Bill Stafford poem before moving on.

RT @TomSnarsky: everything is not quits / A wing holds it up Pierre Reverdy, tr. John Godfrey

@TomSnarsky This one's really doing the rounds today. You love to see it.

Another William Stafford miniature from Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems (1994).

@ae_stallings Still lives in my head rent free.

William Stafford

@JoyceCarolOates Most likely migrated over from the meat slurry extruded into hot dog casings etc. Fitting.

@melnickjeffrey1 @vjoshuaadams That the buyer's handle is SonnyBoy73 says a lot.

@vjoshuaadams The early gen two models might be my favorite version of these cars. Hard to argue with that price tho.

Adrienne Rich, for your mid-winter blues

Calvin C. Hernton ⸻ from Black Out Loud (1970)