Nikki Wallschlaeger
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Nikki Wallschlaeger
@nikkimwalls.bsky.social
Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).

Virgo x2 with a Cancer moon, Libra Mercury 🤘🏽

Driftless region of Wisconsin. Goddess country.

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Birds, take it away
February 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
I was in Puerto Rico pregnant with my first son 20 years ago swimming in the ocean with my big belly.

Thank u 🙏🏽
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

MAGA wanted you to boycott this.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Oh my god
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Turtle Island Birds, what's up
February 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia”

-American Idiot
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Sports people: it’s ok to text your gay friend when it’s almost half time so they don’t miss Bad Bunny
February 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
well they have an open position in the meat department. I could be trained to be a butcher. A valuable skill in farm country.
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
TIRED OF WORKING!
February 8, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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African Violets by Nikki Wallschlaeger

“All this good fruit hanging off the page exchange between dreams and life
You can sit and stare at a houseplant
All you want
But the minute you turn away, She blooms without you”

@nikkimwalls.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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"Hot Minutes"

recent poem by me #smallpoemsunday
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
born to work, die to live
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Lord help me get through this day of work and also I could use a miracle or two or 5 or ten.

Thank u 🙏🏽💜
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
"Hot Minutes"

recent poem by me #smallpoemsunday
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
utter of wisconsin apples, painted by mary daisy arnold
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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people need to understand that EVERY ISRAELI ADULT IS IN THE IDF. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. the ONLY ones who arent had to go to prison and there are not very many of them
There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
sportsbowl
for people who use the word sportsball, today is their super bowl
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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I Thought Freedom Would Set Me Free (And You Gave Me A Song), 2020, by African American artist Arcmanoro Niles (born in 1989)

Oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

178 x 128 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Beautiful
Where Do I Turn to When I Can’t Take It Anymore (All the Hope I Had I Hope I Wasn’t Wrong), 2025, by African American artist Arcmanoro Niles (born in 1989)

Oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

69 x 85 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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This poem is for you:
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
😆😂🤣
Kid Rock looks like he argues with gas station cashiers every time cigarettes go up in price
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Looting dinosaur bones on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Why am I on here? This is a waste of time.
February 8, 2026 at 2:11 AM
shut up
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM