Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.Fallen Leaves by Sam Rasnake
OFFICIAL RELEASE FALLEN LEAVES is a collection of contemporary commentaries. It was conceived from Sam’s social engagement online and draws its inspiration and social commentary from quotes, poems…
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I’m honored that Ballerini Book Press has today released Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection, into the world. I hope those leaves drift your way.
Thanks to @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social & @amantineb.bsky.social
If you’re interested in a copy, order here:
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Thanks to @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social & @amantineb.bsky.social
If you’re interested in a copy, order here:
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Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight (Audio) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by MilesDavisVEVO
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December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
20 favorite films...
13. Banshun (Late Spring) / Yasujiro Ozu, dir. (1949)
Connections. Relationships. Family. Big things in small spaces, tiny actions, things unsaid. Amazing direction and cinematography.
“Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself.”
📽️🎬
13. Banshun (Late Spring) / Yasujiro Ozu, dir. (1949)
Connections. Relationships. Family. Big things in small spaces, tiny actions, things unsaid. Amazing direction and cinematography.
“Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself.”
📽️🎬
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
20 favorite films...
13. Banshun (Late Spring) / Yasujiro Ozu, dir. (1949)
Connections. Relationships. Family. Big things in small spaces, tiny actions, things unsaid. Amazing direction and cinematography.
“Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself.”
📽️🎬
13. Banshun (Late Spring) / Yasujiro Ozu, dir. (1949)
Connections. Relationships. Family. Big things in small spaces, tiny actions, things unsaid. Amazing direction and cinematography.
“Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself.”
📽️🎬
My list of influential books…
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
“Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that … that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems … and also the sense of responsibility, taking care of things…”
#writer
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
“Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that … that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems … and also the sense of responsibility, taking care of things…”
#writer
December 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My list of influential books…
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
“Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that … that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems … and also the sense of responsibility, taking care of things…”
#writer
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
“Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that … that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems … and also the sense of responsibility, taking care of things…”
#writer
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Happy Boxing Day.
The Northern Christmas Llama Was Elusive But Generous In Nature, Janet Hill.
The Northern Christmas Llama Was Elusive But Generous In Nature, Janet Hill.
December 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Happy Boxing Day.
The Northern Christmas Llama Was Elusive But Generous In Nature, Janet Hill.
The Northern Christmas Llama Was Elusive But Generous In Nature, Janet Hill.
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One of my faves for this time of year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m4...
Une cantate de Noël
YouTube video by Jean Martinon - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
One of my faves for this time of year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m4...
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"[Old woman] sees this. She’s like [old man]. She sees things before we see them ourselves."
Wow, this brilliant piece of writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Wow, this brilliant piece of writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Efficiency measures
by Matt Kendrick It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is open on the [table] in front of me. [Old woman] is scratching the yellowing [na…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"[Old woman] sees this. She’s like [old man]. She sees things before we see them ourselves."
Wow, this brilliant piece of writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
Wow, this brilliant piece of writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
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“He knows all about the colour blue, all about its folds and shadows, and He hums Blue Velvet in my ear while Mom hisses through the line you’re married now, goddamit.”
Blues by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Blues by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
NUNUM Winter 2025 Volume 8, Issue 4
David Sydney, Dawn Miller, Jacqueline Doyle, Kelly Ronayne, Kristen Reece, Owen Brown, Pia Quintano, Steven Ostrowski and Angel Dionne have come together to give us NUNUM’s Winter 2025 issue.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“He knows all about the colour blue, all about its folds and shadows, and He hums Blue Velvet in my ear while Mom hisses through the line you’re married now, goddamit.”
Blues by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Blues by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Alice Notley's translation of Apollinaire
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Alice Notley's translation of Apollinaire
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Almost
A lullaby through the pit of branches. She hums gently beside me: Oh sweet and ancient bruises! Something finally spoke. I watch the right sadness cart its way over the bend, into my sleeping house by the river, where I had almost been. It never happened the way that I wanted it to. Jesse…
A lullaby through the pit of branches. She hums gently beside me: Oh sweet and ancient bruises! Something finally spoke. I watch the right sadness cart its way over the bend, into my sleeping house by the river, where I had almost been. It never happened the way that I wanted it to. Jesse…
Almost
A lullaby through the pit of branches. She hums gently beside me: Oh sweet and ancient bruises! Something finally spoke. I watch the right sadness cart its way over the bend, into my sleeping house by the river, where I had almost been. It never happened the way that I wanted it to. Jesse Holwitz is a 24-year-old student at UC Berkeley who enjoys playing chess more than reading the news. They've been published previously in Third Wednesday Magazine and the San Antonio Review.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Almost
A lullaby through the pit of branches. She hums gently beside me: Oh sweet and ancient bruises! Something finally spoke. I watch the right sadness cart its way over the bend, into my sleeping house by the river, where I had almost been. It never happened the way that I wanted it to. Jesse…
A lullaby through the pit of branches. She hums gently beside me: Oh sweet and ancient bruises! Something finally spoke. I watch the right sadness cart its way over the bend, into my sleeping house by the river, where I had almost been. It never happened the way that I wanted it to. Jesse…
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And to be fair: poets are some of the most interesting people, ever. Writers. Artists. I really love us. Stay weird. Stay revising. Use that revision knife.
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And to be fair: poets are some of the most interesting people, ever. Writers. Artists. I really love us. Stay weird. Stay revising. Use that revision knife.
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“I have a wider range as a human being than as a writer. (With some writers, it’s the opposite.) Only a fraction of me is available to be turned into art.”
-- Susan Sontag
-- Susan Sontag
December 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“I have a wider range as a human being than as a writer. (With some writers, it’s the opposite.) Only a fraction of me is available to be turned into art.”
-- Susan Sontag
-- Susan Sontag
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Winter hares, Nils Tirén, 1900.
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Winter hares, Nils Tirén, 1900.
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Merry Christmas, peeps. This one always earns a spot.
#Christmas2025
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#FairytaleOfNewYork
#Christmas2025
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#FairytaleOfNewYork
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video) [HD Upgrade]
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December 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Merry Christmas, peeps. This one always earns a spot.
#Christmas2025
youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?...
#FairytaleOfNewYork
#Christmas2025
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#FairytaleOfNewYork
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Remembering that fiery poppy from one of my summer walks, now that the days are mostly gloomy and gray.
Poppy-eye, looking past you, for "I have / a lord in heaven / called the sun, and open / for him, showing him / the fire of my own heart" (Louise Glück)
Poppy-eye, looking past you, for "I have / a lord in heaven / called the sun, and open / for him, showing him / the fire of my own heart" (Louise Glück)
December 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Remembering that fiery poppy from one of my summer walks, now that the days are mostly gloomy and gray.
Poppy-eye, looking past you, for "I have / a lord in heaven / called the sun, and open / for him, showing him / the fire of my own heart" (Louise Glück)
Poppy-eye, looking past you, for "I have / a lord in heaven / called the sun, and open / for him, showing him / the fire of my own heart" (Louise Glück)
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"The month we are flowers, we give each other new names. Geraldine is Gardenia; Hazel, Hyacinth. Then there’s Magnolia, Peony, Lavender, and Azalea. And of course, Belladonna (Beatrice, our herd queen.)"
I love this amazing piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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I love this amazing piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/b...
Bounce, Dance, Dig
by Claudia Monpere The month we are goats, we sleep huddled together. We thrash bushes with our heads. Curl our upper lips, sniffing each other. We nibble on our mothers’ floral skirts and f…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The month we are flowers, we give each other new names. Geraldine is Gardenia; Hazel, Hyacinth. Then there’s Magnolia, Peony, Lavender, and Azalea. And of course, Belladonna (Beatrice, our herd queen.)"
I love this amazing piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/b...
I love this amazing piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/b...
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“Nothing has really happened until it has been described.”
-- Virginia Woolf
-- Virginia Woolf
December 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Nothing has really happened until it has been described.”
-- Virginia Woolf
-- Virginia Woolf
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“… I know I’m your only sister and you felt you had to ask for a toast despite your misgivings, but maybe if you didn’t always have misgivings about me I …”
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
NUNUM Winter 2025 Volume 8, Issue 4
David Sydney, Dawn Miller, Jacqueline Doyle, Kelly Ronayne, Kristen Reece, Owen Brown, Pia Quintano, Steven Ostrowski and Angel Dionne have come together to give us NUNUM’s Winter 2025 issue.
online.fliphtml5.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“… I know I’m your only sister and you felt you had to ask for a toast despite your misgivings, but maybe if you didn’t always have misgivings about me I …”
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
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“And how would she ever be gracious, bending to pat a page boy’s head when she didn’t really know what the word gracious meant? How would she ever know the way of being a bride?”
Frankie McMillan in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...
Frankie McMillan in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...
The existential crisis of the bride (a triptych)
By Frankie McMillan The existential crisis of the bride There she was in her wedding dress, about to throw the lucky horseshoe to her bridesmaids when there was a neighing at the church door…
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December 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“And how would she ever be gracious, bending to pat a page boy’s head when she didn’t really know what the word gracious meant? How would she ever know the way of being a bride?”
Frankie McMillan in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...
Frankie McMillan in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...
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the united negro college fund is unconstitutional... but not the ku klux klan?
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
the united negro college fund is unconstitutional... but not the ku klux klan?
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
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love this myth-story.... Athena and the limestone mountain. Blessings @vikkicwrites.bsky.social Ty for sharing your journey with everyone. 💐
Climbed Mount Lycabettus, the summit being the highest point in Athens. Mythologically, Lycabettus is said to have been created by Athena when she dropped a limestone mountain she'd been carrying for the construction of the Acropolis.
Stunning panorama & an amazing strawberry milkshake.
#Athens
Stunning panorama & an amazing strawberry milkshake.
#Athens
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
love this myth-story.... Athena and the limestone mountain. Blessings @vikkicwrites.bsky.social Ty for sharing your journey with everyone. 💐