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Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤

Read more about her sh!t at www.ladyonawire.com
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“Are you seeing my face in Anna’s, however faint?”

“Me hanging up after the fourth ring, deciding I’d pay for it myself. Extras shifts, graveyards, weekends.”

the “clutch of combs”

@eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social www.vestalreview.net/picture-day
Picture Day — Vestal Review
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December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.

Next is Sasha Debevec-McKenney's pick: Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Thank you, Sasha!
Sasha Debevec-McKenney recommends Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss and says: Thank God for Diane Seuss! I felt at home in the clutter and breadth of Modern Poetry. It's musical like Billy Elliot dancing angrily through the street. The kind of book you have to put down and step away from. But then you run right back to it.
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
"A small piece of a person inside the stone continues its long journey.
And someone continues his long journey in humility."

Beautiful philosophical renderings in this showcase by accomplished Ukranian poet Mykyta Ryzhykh at Ice Floe DEC WORKS with a stunning vispo by @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom.

Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”

Choices.

Choices are more free than car dependency.

It’s not a hard concept.

I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.

I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
Complex highway interchange from the air
December 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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danadelibovi.bsky.social
New poems in @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social — who BTW publishes the fab Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social 💙📚
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
Maggie Smith ♥️

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
@tupelopress.bsky.social
PAST What is the past? We needed a word for everything before. See how my saying this is already there, and there for good —no fishing it out of that deep water, the deepest there is. The past is a tide that drags out but won't return to shore: even your question has been carried off. Look, you can see it floating. Anything heavier settles unseen like wreckage for a silver ribbon of fish to slip through. The past is not all distant. We can stand at its edge, watching the waves do the backbreaking work of pulling, pulling away. From the shore, the past seems to go on forever, because it does. We say it was a different time, but all times are different. This one, for instance. And again, this one.
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
ladyonawire.bsky.social
My next book will be out soon!
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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J. H. Prynne
at all anyway whatever even so rubbish
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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gregmorosoff.bsky.social
Art by Emi Boz

As always, stay witchy.

#SpookySeason_bsky
#MenWithCats
and always witches too
Art by Emi Boz
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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bornmiserable.bsky.social
excuse me, but do I look like I give a shit? well, you're damn right I do. make sure you're eating, hydrating, resting, taking your motherfucking meds, and looking out for your best interests in the spirit of your health and well-being and fuck anyone who dares derail your path to joy
July 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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inventingreality.bsky.social
#author #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting
5 Great Quotations about Self-Publishing
“Self-publishing isn’t for authors who couldn't be published. It's for authors who could.” - Roz Morris “There are as many ways to self-publish as there are to skin a cat. Thankfully, self-publishing ...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#nonfiction #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity #authors inventingrealityediting.com/2...
How to create an index for your nonfiction book
Sometimes after finishing a nonfiction book, readers want to review a specific concept or idea that appears on only a few pages of the volume. The table of contents probably is too general to give …
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August 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
'If God Were To Die'

One of many startling, intuitive poems in this visionary collection.

Ancient truths meet modern ecological crises through a meditative window that honours Creation at its most vulnerable.

EMBER DAYS by @newsthatstays.bsky.social (@codhillpress.bsky.social) 🔥

#poetrybooks
August 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
"Because the world
breaks itself open along the same faultline
which splits my chest whenever you fall from your odd sense of flight."

A poem to be gifted to the "other" across longitudes 🤍

"Sacred Afflictions" in @emergejournal.bsky.social, Issue 32.

#poetry #poetrycommunity
#Writingcommunity
Sacred Afflictions by Vikki C. We can come up with a single line that means so much on the lips of another. Even along a receding shore, a bird circles the vague crescent between bay and off-white and the wind is pastelled in aloneness. Again, you are asking about my day — did I sleep well in an unfamiliar bed? Were there more important things we’d neglected? How is the evening light after the rain? It’s easy to say little in reply to one’s golden other, and still hold them closer than grief, knowing this love endures the lesser kind. I don’t know how to pray anymore, but something tilts my chin skyward. The errant murmuration and their acrobatics, a rapture my eyes heed in search of you. Because its dark mass changes shape too often to turn from. Because the world breaks itself open along the same faultline which splits my chest whenever you fall from your odd sense of flight. They keep asking if I believe in angels. the ones like swans who try the sky on for size – pulling it over us with the thunder intact. I pass a botanical garden; a harp plays a line of music warm and absolute — and Eden is not quite myth. As if you arrive, bare shouldered and faithful, the sundial splits dusk to make two of its kind — and by some soft second chance, I am forgiven.
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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helenlaycock.bsky.social
The challenge was to write a poem about an historical event, beginning with a simile, including compound words, kennings, sound patterns and a lesser-used colour… Oh, and all in 80 words!

Here’s my poem about The Titanic.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetsofbluesky
June 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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“I am quiet and slow, and that is my gift.”
—Fred Rogers
Photo of sun-dappled woods in late Spring
May 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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katrevier.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt Monday, May 25th is #predator

Another week—another word!
Fellow Dream-weavers, tell me a tale
of darkness or light—predator or prey,
but make it sing!

#Predator – A hunter—animal or person, calculated and often cold-blooded.
MORNING RUN Inspired by dawn and dew I run hard uphill trying to catch the mist That elusive fog recedes before me the voice of the forest loud in my mind The sounds of creatures just waking exploring the woodland floor prickle my senses But then—I hear the birds of morning silencing their song taking flight from the trees Cold sweat—as the low throaty growl of a predator reaches my ears
May 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
ladyonawire.bsky.social
New release from my publishing press, Lady Chaos Press. Available now on Amazon ❤️🔪🖤
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ladyonawire.bsky.social
no explanation needed❤️🔪🖤
April 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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gentlemanoutsider.bsky.social
#watershipdown
April 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ladyonawire.bsky.social
❤️🔪🖤
March 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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poetrygal.bsky.social
When it strips you bare, nothing left there…
March 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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inpoetsshoes.bsky.social
I find everything you do irresistible
In these feelings that are love
You are my passion

This night calls in on me
But I never want to leave this moment
Love cried out with open eyes
You are my wild side

I find your thirst for life exasperating
In these feelings I am whole

#vss365 #passion
March 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
ladyonawire.bsky.social
My publishing press, Lady Chaos Press, is working on a little something ❤️🔪🖤
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM