deanschabner-sky
deanschabner.bsky.social
deanschabner-sky
@deanschabner.bsky.social
A working poet, here to be.
Author of “no better place than here” and chapbook “surf-body”
Poetry and fiction in Pushcart Prize, River Heron Review, Witness, Northwest Review and more
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I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
January 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Something I’ve been walking around with for a while, but got a nudge today

#birds #birdpoems #poetry #poems
January 24, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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#短歌 #tanka

somewhere
deep in the woods
a woman sleeps in a cabin
with what's left of
the autumn moon
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Alice Oswald, from her book Woods etc.

#birds #birdpoems #poetry #nature
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
taken by surprise
by all the colors
November hasn’t
hopping here along
a gray fence rail

a warbler I don’t
know moving too quick
to see more than that
this little I see
can be just enough

#birds #birdpoems #poetry #nature
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Late summer in the Rockaways #birds #nature #birdpoems #poetry
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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in defiance
of everything
sunbeam
September 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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early autumn walk
the spring mud on my old boots
knows the path well

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Verbophobia

voices swarm the air,
I keep my tongue still- stone rests
under rushing streams.

#poetry #haiku
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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So much to admire about this painterly miniature by Robyn Sarah
September 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Not necessarily the tunes I’d choose, but Mal Waldron will enrich your day #jazz #piano #music #listen 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron
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September 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A storm poem for someone

#nature #birds #naturepoetry #poetry
June 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
that the birds sing and
I cannot understand is
just fine and even
more knowing everything is
not anything to be desired

#birds #birdpoems #nature #tanka
June 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It looks like water but it's an embrace.
June 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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the shifting silver
light of rain that touches
everything to green

#haiku
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June 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"When I say land
sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean

I mean all the rest

unarticulated with the mouth's
profane shape"
-Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A little from Thoreau’s journal, sometime in January or February 1851

#thoreau #nature #poetry #rivers #water
May 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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—But art? . . .
—It’s pure play,
the same as pure life,
the same as pure fire,
you’ll see the glowing ember.

—Mas el arte? . . .
—Es puro juego,
que es igual a pura vida,
que es igual a puro fuego,
Veréis el ascua encendida.

-Antonio Machado
May 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Strange bit of D.H. Lawrence
#poetry #poems #nature #blue
May 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Another little bulbul tanka
#tanka #birds #birdpoems #poetry #nature #NaTankaMo

there’s nothing special
I know about a bulbul
they’re everywhere
but what if thinking of them
I think of someone what then
May 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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A beautiful visitor to the garden on the weekend - white-throated sparrows have such a sweet song. Makes me smile every time #birds
May 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM