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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d)
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“IDEAS OF IMPROVISATION” (2023) from Thread Makes Blanket Press, Poet, autistic mystic atheist & Johnny Black velvet rumbler, HyperQbic colorpuntalist, self-unemployed—Pi is my spirit guide, if it isn’t black—it isn’t liquorice.
Pinned
If Harryette Mullen & Bashō had a baby.
A few minutes
relief from tinnitus—
crickets

Evening rain—
the bagpiper fills
an open grave

#haiku
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Passing Fire truck-
The leaves of the Flame Maple
ripple

Call to prayer-
kneeling at the corner
transit bus

#haiku
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
poker game
the gunman asks
to see our hands

#haiku
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
on the river—
the queen of spades
in crescent light

#haiku
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
GOOOOOOOAL !

Congrats to Os Tubarões Azul for being the 2nd smallest nation to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. Nu Bai!!!
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
a hole in the clouds—
in the Gaza sand
a yellow barrette

#haiku
October 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
What about—

a trace of the moon
in the midnight sky—
almond blossoms

#haiku
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.

James Wright
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
sun shower
we make ramen noodles
with Fiji water

#haiku
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Nuff said.
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
flashing lights
in the cop’s aviators
fireflies

#haiku
October 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
after the shooting
the sound of my son’s voice
on a cell phone

#haiku
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
evergreen
even round midnight
the pine

#haiku
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
abandoned church—
the cast off shell
of a cicada

#haiku
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d)
Rest In Power ✊🏼
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Welp!
September 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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These exhibits spotlight 600 female artists in DC area
These exhibits spotlight 600 female artists in DC area
Lenny Campello has spent the last few years curating the art project Women Artists of the DMV, which has grown to 18 exhibits that include 600 artists.
wtop.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PURCHASE FOR ME!!!!!
Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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There are very few things that can't be made better—at least temporarily—by a bowl of cheesy grits.
September 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
HBD to WCW
September 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Was walking across Pitt’s campus and saw some beautiful people taking a selfie, so I photobombed them.
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Her poem “Conversation” haunts me to this day. www.poetrynook.com/poem/convers...
September 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
baseball game
how easily I catch
popcorn in my beard

#haiku
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d)
in the clearing
dharma becomes
dragonflies
#zen #haiku #poetry
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM