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Andy Perrin
@andyperrincycling.bsky.social

Cyclist-Photographer-Writer-Teacher

Debut Chapbook ‘Along the Home Roads’ Available Now!

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Twas a minute past seven,
I was already late,
my bicycle didn’t mind.

My gears were grinding,
the slightest drizzle
glazed oaks and roads.

Some days I ride the same
stretches my dad rode,
wondering where he stopped

to notice these small things.

#vss365 #drizzle #FromOneLine
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 AM
winter blues
drifting aimlessly in cold
unmoored politics

#vss365 #unmoor
January 22, 2026 at 9:12 AM
white pine boughs
a country bends before
she breaks

#vss365 #bend
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 AM
looming gloom
the warped weft of this
American fabric

#vss365 #loom
January 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM
fragile America
veering so far from
moral standing

#vss365 #veer
January 19, 2026 at 11:23 AM
winter murmurs
across Wickford Harbor

coldest along the edges
where ice settles slow water

a few hearty ducks
do not seem to notice time

no more masts, just light
at play on the wind ruffles

the sun rises over the maple
but will shift a bit left tomorrow

#vss365 #murmur
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
winter dapples too
flakes through still oaks
wolf moon shadows
slightly warmer southern breezes
perfect coffees
laughter
smiles
wood stove heat
soup and crunchy bread
earlier sunrises
later sunsets
all dapples on the winter sledge

#vss365 #dapple
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
The unforgiving sear
of goodness on the soul

makes existence much
more burdensome now,

but for those unweighted,
an inferno of indulgences.

#vss365 #sear
January 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
solitary tree
heartfelt appreciation
for existence

#vss365 #heartfelt
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
cold icy months
a little nation that could
all wonky now

#vss365 #wonky
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
city on a hill
stooping to the failures
of the worst of them

#vss365 #stoop
January 13, 2026 at 9:45 AM
some slapdash days
swiping and scrolling as the
world slowly spins

#vss365 #slapdash
January 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM
I wish the worst
humanity could be
was just dash of kooky,

a man with a briefcase
skipping down a sidewalk

and not in the utter
destruction of the other
members of our big family.

murders on the evening news
wars of nations versus nations

#vss365 #kooky
January 11, 2026 at 11:46 AM
in America
unmissable delusions
of grandeur

#vss365 #unmissable
January 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
silhouettes of snow
delivery of a poem
before paper

#vss365 #delivery
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Adorned in nascent
flurried light

winter’s husk seems
at life again.

#vss365 #adorn
January 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
wolf moon cold
a symphony of silence
shadow and light

#vss365 #symphony
January 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Along the stretch of
wolf moon shadows

I was spooked by a deer
and she spooked by me

a brief moment of pause
but really nothing to fuss

we each turned aside
to continue on our way.

#vss365 #spooked
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
oddballs
make the world
go around

#vss365 #oddball
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 AM
I’m clueless
about most things

but I’m confident
I know nothing

of any real value.

#vss365 #clueless
January 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
then one day
you will decide
not to turn
the Christmas lights
on again

as the abstraction
of winter begins
to steadily take hold

#vss365 #abstraction
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
dawn of a year
delighting in the weight
of snow

#vss365 #delight
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
winter dreams
are simpler still

a few flakes
will suffice

#vss365 #dream
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I teach world history
yet have not
travelled this world

have not crossed
oceans nor borders
recognized or not

have not stood
where they stood
doing a notable thing

have not seen
their memorials
to their own greatness

perhaps one day
perhaps not

#vss365 #travel
December 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
a sole commonality

a sole word becomes
a sole to earth

#vss365 #sole
December 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM