Jessica Coles
@prairievixen.bsky.social
(she/her) Poet, editor, finder of lost things, singer of silly songs. Poems in Moist Poetry, Stone Circle Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead & others. Lover of beings that move between worlds. Endearingly uncool. Bestselling poet on a very local level.
But it's good that I'm writing a song about this very thing... maybe?
Only silence perfects silence.
A.R. Ammons
A.R. Ammons
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
But it's good that I'm writing a song about this very thing... maybe?
Reposted by Jessica Coles
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
Please text one of your friends who's a mom, and tell her that she's not inadequate, she's doing her best in an infinitely bullshit timeline, and her dreams and joys are worth protecting. I guarantee she needs to hear it today.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Please text one of your friends who's a mom, and tell her that she's not inadequate, she's doing her best in an infinitely bullshit timeline, and her dreams and joys are worth protecting. I guarantee she needs to hear it today.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Toad the Wet Sprocket, "All I Want"
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say
#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=braL...
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say
#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=braL...
All I Want
YouTube video by Toad The Wet Sprocket - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Toad the Wet Sprocket, "All I Want"
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say
#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=braL...
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say
#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=braL...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Micro poetic magic by @kristinwrites.bsky.social
In just a handful or two of words. Simple elegant wonder.
templeinacity.com/poetry-krist...
In just a handful or two of words. Simple elegant wonder.
templeinacity.com/poetry-krist...
Temple in a City literary journal
Hibiscus, poetry by Kristin Houlihan. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Micro poetic magic by @kristinwrites.bsky.social
In just a handful or two of words. Simple elegant wonder.
templeinacity.com/poetry-krist...
In just a handful or two of words. Simple elegant wonder.
templeinacity.com/poetry-krist...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Hello? Are you home? A little joy is knocking at your door. It’s not a trick, scam or con. It isn’t looking for something back. You’ll let it in, won’t you? It won’t overstay. Just keep you company for a while. Tend to your sore spots. Hello? Are you home?
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hello? Are you home? A little joy is knocking at your door. It’s not a trick, scam or con. It isn’t looking for something back. You’ll let it in, won’t you? It won’t overstay. Just keep you company for a while. Tend to your sore spots. Hello? Are you home?
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Editors - In This Light and on This Evening
youtu.be/O5K6IGZ-Yg8?...
Editors - In This Light and on This Evening
youtu.be/O5K6IGZ-Yg8?...
Editors Live - In This Light And On This Evening @ Sziget 2013
YouTube video by Sziget Festival
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Editors - In This Light and on This Evening
youtu.be/O5K6IGZ-Yg8?...
Editors - In This Light and on This Evening
youtu.be/O5K6IGZ-Yg8?...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
I didn't mean to watch the entire Pulp Tiny Desk Concert, but Jarvis Cocker is a mesmerizing performer.
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I didn't mean to watch the entire Pulp Tiny Desk Concert, but Jarvis Cocker is a mesmerizing performer.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I've overscheduled myself for the next two weeks. It's like I'm avoiding any chance of focused creative time, on purpose and with malice.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I've overscheduled myself for the next two weeks. It's like I'm avoiding any chance of focused creative time, on purpose and with malice.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Day 14: Careful #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
Reply to *this post* (not the top one!) with the artist, title, hashtag & YouTube link to the 1st song today's prompt word reminds you of (derivatives OK!). Scroll through the replies first—if your song's already there, like it instead of reposting.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
Reposted by Jessica Coles
I have two joyful poems in this issue: one of my froggish pieces and one inspired by a friend who often points me towards happiness.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
We’ll share these little gems individually over the next while. All take just a few minutes (or less) to read. How else will you spend those 1-4 minutes? Doom scrolling? Worrying? Rage-baited? Scared? Lonely? How about a little trade?
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have two joyful poems in this issue: one of my froggish pieces and one inspired by a friend who often points me towards happiness.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Holy crow, I got an actual card in the mail from someone thanking me for writing my poetry collection. Friend of a friend of a relative or something like that. Nobody can't tell me NOTHING for the rest of today. Amazing.
Tell writers when you like their stuff. Man, what a feeling.
Tell writers when you like their stuff. Man, what a feeling.
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Holy crow, I got an actual card in the mail from someone thanking me for writing my poetry collection. Friend of a friend of a relative or something like that. Nobody can't tell me NOTHING for the rest of today. Amazing.
Tell writers when you like their stuff. Man, what a feeling.
Tell writers when you like their stuff. Man, what a feeling.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Friends! With 2 weeks till 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving, I'm asking for your help to get my FREE cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many people as possible.
Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Friends! With 2 weeks till 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving, I'm asking for your help to get my FREE cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many people as possible.
Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
If you can accept that potato takes will always be more popular than poetry, you will survive social media (note to self)
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you can accept that potato takes will always be more popular than poetry, you will survive social media (note to self)
Reposted by Jessica Coles
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Find me and lots of friends in this gorgeous little issue - I just read it all in one sitting and it is a delight!
Who brings this joy to you
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social @prairievixen.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social @ramccafferty.bsky.social @kristinwrites.bsky.social @deniseb.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social
@sgscarso.bsky.social
Patrick Johanneson
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social @prairievixen.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social @ramccafferty.bsky.social @kristinwrites.bsky.social @deniseb.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social
@sgscarso.bsky.social
Patrick Johanneson
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Find me and lots of friends in this gorgeous little issue - I just read it all in one sitting and it is a delight!
Reposted by Jessica Coles
While proofreading for something just now, I learned that a symbol denoting a scene or section break in a manuscript is called a “dinkus.” I think that’s lovely.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
While proofreading for something just now, I learned that a symbol denoting a scene or section break in a manuscript is called a “dinkus.” I think that’s lovely.
I have two joyful poems in this issue: one of my froggish pieces and one inspired by a friend who often points me towards happiness.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
We’ll share these little gems individually over the next while. All take just a few minutes (or less) to read. How else will you spend those 1-4 minutes? Doom scrolling? Worrying? Rage-baited? Scared? Lonely? How about a little trade?
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have two joyful poems in this issue: one of my froggish pieces and one inspired by a friend who often points me towards happiness.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
But this whole issue is absolutely respite. Take a breath here.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
Everybody needs a gentle touch sometimes. May you find here or somewhere else. But may you find it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Everybody needs a gentle touch sometimes. May you find here or somewhere else. But may you find it.
Reposted by Jessica Coles
It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Reposted by Jessica Coles
If a man calls a woman “crazy” please know that it’s actually code for “she is reasonably upset by the compounded experiences of injustice that her mere existence has subjected her to and I don’t want to acknowledge it or I fear I will realize I’ve benefited from the culture of it.” Hope that helps!
December 12, 2024 at 7:24 PM
If a man calls a woman “crazy” please know that it’s actually code for “she is reasonably upset by the compounded experiences of injustice that her mere existence has subjected her to and I don’t want to acknowledge it or I fear I will realize I’ve benefited from the culture of it.” Hope that helps!
Reposted by Jessica Coles
So many @epistemiclit.bsky.social friends in this popup! I am DELIGHTED to be among you superstars! (-k). Thank you so much, @templeinacity.bsky.social !
Lil sneak preview of who’s coming to you soon in our Joy micro issue. Expect it out soon. templeinacity.com/joy/ templeinacity.com/joy/
Temple in a City literary journal
Contributors to JOY, a special pop-up edition of Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So many @epistemiclit.bsky.social friends in this popup! I am DELIGHTED to be among you superstars! (-k). Thank you so much, @templeinacity.bsky.social !