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IF I WERE GOD I WOULD ALSO START WITH LIGHT (Thirty West Publishing House)

(Mr.) 💍🏳️‍🌈
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Joy Harjo
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Padam Padam X Little Drummer Boy remix
It’s a Kylie Minogue Christmas
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It’s a Kylie Minogue Christmas
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’m sorry but if you’re wearing a cowboy hat in your wedding photos—
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Two years ago I was about to download tinder premium hours away from meeting my husband
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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As always, it’s an honor to work with @glasspoetry.bsky.social 🧡 I love this little poem, wish it luck!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!!

@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"

Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"

@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"

Malik Thompson "*"

Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"

CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As always, it’s an honor to work with @glasspoetry.bsky.social 🧡 I love this little poem, wish it luck!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Eat shit Kim Davis I hope you trip into a volcano but scrape all your limbs on the way down
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The thing about me is I’m gonna light a candle
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If I don't continuously work for the good, I become, bit by bit, hateful
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When the line you built the poem around gets cut in the first revision
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Throw your tomatoes, but my Christmas tree goes up tomorrow (I’m a Taurus)
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
When your best friend and high school prom date is also an author and then the world feels smaller in the best way
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Sharties
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Sharties
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Does anyone need a virtual reader? I just realized I haven’t read since spring!
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Substack is proof we YEARN for 2000s blogging
October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Buying your husband flowers for the reaction>
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The thing about me is YES, YES I am going to listen to The Counting Crows during fall!
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The thing about me is YES, YES I am going to listen to The Counting Crows during fall!
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hypomania is just bouncing between “I should listen to The Black Eyed Peas more” and “I curse the soil I was born on”
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I used to dread turning 30, but now that I’m a few steps through the door- it’s heaven. Sure, it hurts to poop, but I simply don’t care about what anyone thinks and I cry over happy things like how good my coffee is that day
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I feel the calling to become a scarf person, but my hubris, he knicks at my ankles
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM