Jo Mizuno
@jomizuno.bsky.social
This #bionic heart beats
For you no
Not really
Caught in the backwash of
Dollar store miracles
These bionic lungs breathe
For us no
That's not it I'm
Drowning in expectations &
Cultural detritus
My bionic self bends
For your starlight kisses
Becoming
What you wish & will
Both of us alone
#vss365
For you no
Not really
Caught in the backwash of
Dollar store miracles
These bionic lungs breathe
For us no
That's not it I'm
Drowning in expectations &
Cultural detritus
My bionic self bends
For your starlight kisses
Becoming
What you wish & will
Both of us alone
#vss365
August 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
If you’re at Seattle Worldcon, Catherine Lundoff has a table talk at 10:30 AM tomorrow in Room
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August 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you’re at Seattle Worldcon, Catherine Lundoff has a table talk at 10:30 AM tomorrow in Room
430 - sign up to ask your publishing questions and about Catherine’s own work! seattlein2025.org/program-and-...
430 - sign up to ask your publishing questions and about Catherine’s own work! seattlein2025.org/program-and-...
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
Do you hear it?
That gentle #hum
A song known across
Time and space
In the pulse of the tide
Or the eternal waltz
Of the seasons
From the vast underground
Melody of mycelium
Down to the very
Quiver of an atom
Singing all that is
And all that could be
In the infinite symphony
Of the cosmos
#vss365
That gentle #hum
A song known across
Time and space
In the pulse of the tide
Or the eternal waltz
Of the seasons
From the vast underground
Melody of mycelium
Down to the very
Quiver of an atom
Singing all that is
And all that could be
In the infinite symphony
Of the cosmos
#vss365
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
July 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
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i had forgotten my worth
buried beneath the loam
of love’s longing
of so much time alone
when you exhumed me
you saw treasure -
eyes like sapphires
lips ruby red
the rest had decomposed
yet i gleamed with new luster
in the pristine light
of being seen
again
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
i had forgotten my worth
buried beneath the loam
of love’s longing
of so much time alone
when you exhumed me
you saw treasure -
eyes like sapphires
lips ruby red
the rest had decomposed
yet i gleamed with new luster
in the pristine light
of being seen
again
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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i had forgotten my worth
buried beneath the loam
of love’s longing
of so much time alone
when you exhumed me
you saw treasure -
eyes like sapphires
lips ruby red
the rest had decomposed
yet i gleamed with new luster
in the pristine light
of being seen
again
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
i had forgotten my worth
buried beneath the loam
of love’s longing
of so much time alone
when you exhumed me
you saw treasure -
eyes like sapphires
lips ruby red
the rest had decomposed
yet i gleamed with new luster
in the pristine light
of being seen
again
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
Each moment
Each breath
Closer to drowning
Farther from death
You are my personal avalanche
Tumbling me so fast
I mistake
Up from down
#Sapphire mountain from rocky sky
Sliding sideways synchronized
Within this dance
C'est nous mon amour
Wrapped in this quotidian cataclysm
We make together
#vss365
Each breath
Closer to drowning
Farther from death
You are my personal avalanche
Tumbling me so fast
I mistake
Up from down
#Sapphire mountain from rocky sky
Sliding sideways synchronized
Within this dance
C'est nous mon amour
Wrapped in this quotidian cataclysm
We make together
#vss365
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
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i once bent light
into a key
to see
if the gates
around your heart
could be opened
you cried out
as if in pain
crows flying forth
from your mouth
and i knew
this was not
happenstance
my fate
now sealed
in falling feathers
thick as pitch
around me
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
i once bent light
into a key
to see
if the gates
around your heart
could be opened
you cried out
as if in pain
crows flying forth
from your mouth
and i knew
this was not
happenstance
my fate
now sealed
in falling feathers
thick as pitch
around me
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
July 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
-
i once bent light
into a key
to see
if the gates
around your heart
could be opened
you cried out
as if in pain
crows flying forth
from your mouth
and i knew
this was not
happenstance
my fate
now sealed
in falling feathers
thick as pitch
around me
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
i once bent light
into a key
to see
if the gates
around your heart
could be opened
you cried out
as if in pain
crows flying forth
from your mouth
and i knew
this was not
happenstance
my fate
now sealed
in falling feathers
thick as pitch
around me
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrylovers #read
July 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
We shed no #tear for pretend kings
Upon the golden throne
We save them for an immigrant
Stolen from his home
If we light it all on fire
As the cult does wish
Rebuilding should feed everyone
Around a common dish
184 a mere few days
Since this hell began
#fdt & join with me
Fix this yes we can
#vss365
Upon the golden throne
We save them for an immigrant
Stolen from his home
If we light it all on fire
As the cult does wish
Rebuilding should feed everyone
Around a common dish
184 a mere few days
Since this hell began
#fdt & join with me
Fix this yes we can
#vss365
July 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We have all
Made oaths to others
Nations gods men
We swear loyalty
We #promise fidelity
We avow love
At what point is it
Ethical or wise
To step away
Oathbreaker infidel betrayer
Rather than walk the untenable road
Is freedom worth the fallout or
Is it better to lead this quiet revolution
#vss365
Made oaths to others
Nations gods men
We swear loyalty
We #promise fidelity
We avow love
At what point is it
Ethical or wise
To step away
Oathbreaker infidel betrayer
Rather than walk the untenable road
Is freedom worth the fallout or
Is it better to lead this quiet revolution
#vss365
July 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
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when you said
this isn’t a promise
just its potential
i watched you arrange
the knives in the drawer
like a ritual half-remembered,
a prayer intoned backward
like chaos
seeking order before execution
like you were taking stock
of what might still
cut deepest
-
#poetry #vss365 #poetrysky #read
when you said
this isn’t a promise
just its potential
i watched you arrange
the knives in the drawer
like a ritual half-remembered,
a prayer intoned backward
like chaos
seeking order before execution
like you were taking stock
of what might still
cut deepest
-
#poetry #vss365 #poetrysky #read
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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when you said
this isn’t a promise
just its potential
i watched you arrange
the knives in the drawer
like a ritual half-remembered,
a prayer intoned backward
like chaos
seeking order before execution
like you were taking stock
of what might still
cut deepest
-
#poetry #vss365 #poetrysky #read
when you said
this isn’t a promise
just its potential
i watched you arrange
the knives in the drawer
like a ritual half-remembered,
a prayer intoned backward
like chaos
seeking order before execution
like you were taking stock
of what might still
cut deepest
-
#poetry #vss365 #poetrysky #read
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
You will transcend
Mortal transgression
For you are a spiritual light
Even when you fail
As a piece of
Shattered deity
Searching for heaven
A spark of illumination
Amid the play of shadows
Fear not
You never left home
You never left Yourself
#vss365 #spiritual
Mortal transgression
For you are a spiritual light
Even when you fail
As a piece of
Shattered deity
Searching for heaven
A spark of illumination
Amid the play of shadows
Fear not
You never left home
You never left Yourself
#vss365 #spiritual
July 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You will transcend
Mortal transgression
For you are a spiritual light
Even when you fail
As a piece of
Shattered deity
Searching for heaven
A spark of illumination
Amid the play of shadows
Fear not
You never left home
You never left Yourself
#vss365 #spiritual
Mortal transgression
For you are a spiritual light
Even when you fail
As a piece of
Shattered deity
Searching for heaven
A spark of illumination
Amid the play of shadows
Fear not
You never left home
You never left Yourself
#vss365 #spiritual
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
Only one word can describe it. #Spiritual. Standing on the cliff, I watch the waves crash against the rocks below. The wide Pacific Ocean stretches out to the horizon, whitecaps glittering in the setting sun. Then that anticipated moment as it slips from view with its trademark green flash.
#vss365
#vss365
July 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Only one word can describe it. #Spiritual. Standing on the cliff, I watch the waves crash against the rocks below. The wide Pacific Ocean stretches out to the horizon, whitecaps glittering in the setting sun. Then that anticipated moment as it slips from view with its trademark green flash.
#vss365
#vss365
I thumb through profiles
Of men holding dead fish
Who will be defensive when this is noted as weird
Yes this is a test
Of empathy of kindness
I pause at one describing his faith as
Religious but not #spiritual
Honest and self-aware I suppose
For once
We are all alone
Even within the crowd
#vss365
Of men holding dead fish
Who will be defensive when this is noted as weird
Yes this is a test
Of empathy of kindness
I pause at one describing his faith as
Religious but not #spiritual
Honest and self-aware I suppose
For once
We are all alone
Even within the crowd
#vss365
July 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I thumb through profiles
Of men holding dead fish
Who will be defensive when this is noted as weird
Yes this is a test
Of empathy of kindness
I pause at one describing his faith as
Religious but not #spiritual
Honest and self-aware I suppose
For once
We are all alone
Even within the crowd
#vss365
Of men holding dead fish
Who will be defensive when this is noted as weird
Yes this is a test
Of empathy of kindness
I pause at one describing his faith as
Religious but not #spiritual
Honest and self-aware I suppose
For once
We are all alone
Even within the crowd
#vss365
Restrained
Recumbent
Bound to this #onyx slab
Fear and darkness
My familiar companions before
Tomorrow's devastation
Monsters plague us
The naked and afraid
But they are nothing before
That flame freely given
Charity begets hope
Kindness begets love
I do not regret
My crime as I await
Dawn
#vss365
Recumbent
Bound to this #onyx slab
Fear and darkness
My familiar companions before
Tomorrow's devastation
Monsters plague us
The naked and afraid
But they are nothing before
That flame freely given
Charity begets hope
Kindness begets love
I do not regret
My crime as I await
Dawn
#vss365
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).
July 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
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to begin anew
the gods have faded
into constellations
where they weep
for their creation
can the capriciousness of man
be undone by a single flood?
a starfall of tears
a field of asters blooms
reminders of innocence
of possibilities
forged in drying ground.
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read
to begin anew
the gods have faded
into constellations
where they weep
for their creation
can the capriciousness of man
be undone by a single flood?
a starfall of tears
a field of asters blooms
reminders of innocence
of possibilities
forged in drying ground.
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read
July 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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to begin anew
the gods have faded
into constellations
where they weep
for their creation
can the capriciousness of man
be undone by a single flood?
a starfall of tears
a field of asters blooms
reminders of innocence
of possibilities
forged in drying ground.
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read
to begin anew
the gods have faded
into constellations
where they weep
for their creation
can the capriciousness of man
be undone by a single flood?
a starfall of tears
a field of asters blooms
reminders of innocence
of possibilities
forged in drying ground.
-
#vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read
Reposted by Jo Mizuno
Youth
Fast fades girls' innocence these days.
Doe-eyed naïveté,
to wariness and guile gives way.
Or acerbic brittleness,
that some may call misplaced.
Unfitting feminity...
Not me.
In this beguiling world, it pays
for girls to be aware,
and not mislaid.
#vss365 #innocence #youth #femininity
Fast fades girls' innocence these days.
Doe-eyed naïveté,
to wariness and guile gives way.
Or acerbic brittleness,
that some may call misplaced.
Unfitting feminity...
Not me.
In this beguiling world, it pays
for girls to be aware,
and not mislaid.
#vss365 #innocence #youth #femininity
July 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Youth
Fast fades girls' innocence these days.
Doe-eyed naïveté,
to wariness and guile gives way.
Or acerbic brittleness,
that some may call misplaced.
Unfitting feminity...
Not me.
In this beguiling world, it pays
for girls to be aware,
and not mislaid.
#vss365 #innocence #youth #femininity
Fast fades girls' innocence these days.
Doe-eyed naïveté,
to wariness and guile gives way.
Or acerbic brittleness,
that some may call misplaced.
Unfitting feminity...
Not me.
In this beguiling world, it pays
for girls to be aware,
and not mislaid.
#vss365 #innocence #youth #femininity