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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice)
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A bit earnest

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · Nov 6
Recycle We pick up the shards of the world. We cut our hands. We pick up the shards of the world. Ankh Spice 7 Nov 2024
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months.
One day they painted it grey. The next day:
A slightly rounded wall painted pale grey, overgrown green grass at the base. Capital lettering on the wall, in two long lines, reads: 'With grey paint we silence some voices in a society. Advertising is fine - it is, after all, the graffiti of the rich"
February 12, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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catespice.bsky.social
This year’s work whiteboard Halloween mural 🎃
Slightly rushed, but happy with it still!
A drawing on a large whiteboard with various traditional Halloween elements on it and the words “Happy Halloween”
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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stonecirclereview.bsky.social
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me ’til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social) #TBT

stonecirclereview.com/snapped-tapes/
Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window
(and so slowly you unwind me 'til I fall apart)   by Ankh Spice   It’s decades since. We’d absconded from the ward, two not-deads gone wanderwild. Some nights you hear the unspool, the moment the han...
stonecirclereview.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
My whole heart to everyone who supported me to keep going with this even in the nightmare this month became. Your generosity means 200km later I've added $2,500 to this humaning bigger than itself - this tangible shout that the world is capable of more love than hate, even now, even now.
A view downward on two feet in bright pink running shoes, red/orange/yellow striped socks on white, and black running tights, calf down. They stand on broad, sea-weathered boardwalk slats. A screenshot of Seagoatscreams's fundraising page for Sweat With Pride. A bright pink background dances with confetti-like stars and shapes in multicolours. In a round gold circle, a pfp of a pale, multipierced, goateed and smiling human. He's wet from swimming, wearing a blue bandana, sparkly pink cat ears, and lime green earbuds. Various text reads Seagoatscreams (he/him) Official MVB I've raised $2,500 of my $2,500 goal
June 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Day 30 of ##SweatWithPride. A kind friend gave me 2 hrs respite from 24/7 cares to run. I didn't make my 30 June 20km goal, but ran until dark came at 14km. Today's run was for every name I've carried, but also specially for David (via @dejanajuk.bsky.social) & for @missyerem.bsky.social's beloveds
A wintry sea view across dunes thriving with green grass and red dots of salvia, white dots of osteospermum, shocks of troll-hair tussocks. The white foam line is strong, the sea pewter, the sky cloudmist. Low hills flank the horizon, opaque with distance. Rippled pale sand and a wintering sea, dark hills beyond a fierce foam line. In the sand, the name 'David' is written in flowing letters, somehow both animate and alone. Rippled, pale sand, a wintry chop of sea and low hills in the distance. On the foreground sand is some flowy lettering: 'A (heart) A (heart) F (heart) Y' A sea view through a foreground screen of long, erratic tussock grass. A curve of winter foam line, moody water, a single island guarding the mid distance, dark and alone.
June 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Pls forgive no replies to msgs/mails/posts - all day every day & late into night at hosp w loved one, or long drive to/from. My few word-spoons get spent posting updates for Sweat with Pride, which was a promise, and there's just nothing left over beyond exhaustion so deep I'm a ghost
Morning light lancing beams through tall spruce-ish trees.
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Day 22 of #SweatWithPride - tender privilege to carry 2 beloveds for sponsor Sarah @palimpsest22.bsky.social

The coast was winterwild & lovely. I left an embodiment of those names in that fresh cold light, & asked it to live in them. As I did, a *huge* queen bumble alit on my shirt - a blessing.
A sea view through a foreground screen of fine greenish tussock grass. Beyond, a strip of deep blue water, with foam line, and flanks of shallow dark hills. The sky is searing winter blue with floating islands of white cloud. An old-fashioned white rose, open-faced, and a tiny pink-orange bud, tightly closed. The stems are unseen, tucked into natural holes in pale driftwood. Racing blue sea throwing white foam on rocks is blurred behind. The sun is bright, crisp-wintry, the rose shadow strong behind it. A fat, fuzzy bumblebee, deep chocolate body and orange thorax stripe startling in contrast against bright, lime-green synthetic fabric with a vertical weave-line.
June 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Some of you know I run a wee bit.

Every day of June, I'm running for Pride, fundraising for 🌈 groups in Aotearoa. Every step I take is for ppl who might still be here if that kind of support had the $ it deserves.

If you'd like to sponsor me I'd love that 🩵

www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
This is Ankh. He's mid-aged white man with a dark mustache and goatee, and multiple facial piercings. Here he's smiling slightly and looking up into the camera from beneath a pale peaked cap. He's wearing a neon green-yellow running shirt with a charity marathon tag number on the chest that says 'Run for HELP'. A calm, silvery early morning sea is behind. A pair of feet in searing pink running shoes, with ankle socks striped in red, orange, and yellow on white. Straw-coloured tussock is beneath. A 'Sweat With Pride' enamel pin, on a pink-purple background. It's a glittery rainbow arch, with overlapping triangles comprised of the rest of the colours of the fully inclusive Pride flag at one end (black, brown, pale blue, pale pink, white, and a yellow front triangle with a dark purple ring)
May 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Thank you for trusting me with your loved ones, @fionadoris.bsky.social. The last song that played on their run was this one - a version of a very formative track for me. May they both keep their strength and heart, and the world become the loving home they deserve
music.youtube.com/watch?v=d95m...
June 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
On today's #SweatWithPride run, I carried two precious names into winter solstice dawn for friend & sponsor @fionadoris.bsky.social.

It was dark for the first 2km, then the shortest day's fire found the hills' back, and mine. The light was extraordinary.

I left the names with old guardians.
A pre-dawn view, blue with unlight, over gently choppy sea. A foam line breaks on a shine of sand washed of colour by the hour. Low dark hills tooth the horizon under pewter clouds, and a foreground tree is two dimensional, sprawling black arms from a thick trunk at left. A bright orange crack of dawn light splitting cloud. The winter sun is rising over a gently choppy sea, perspective slightly diagonal, whose water reflects colour in the mirror of shallows past the foam line. A piece of soft-looking, flat driftwood, roughly eye-shaped, held against blue sky and a blur of silhouetted tree branches. In beachfire charcoal, letters on it read 'SB + W'
June 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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catespice.bsky.social
Solstice Dawn Seawitching 🐚
A large series of spirals and circles carved into the sand at a beach. The rising sun is tinting the stormy clouds with gold and orange A large series of spirals and circles carved into the sand at a beach. The rising sun is tinting the stormy clouds with pastel pinks and blues
June 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
#SweatWithPride Day 20

Mānawatia a Matariki, m'loves ✨️
Difficult hospital time tonight, home late & heart in bits. But this morning, I felt so lucky to run 10km. carrying a very precious name into the peace of Matariki. Big love to #sweatwithpride sponsor Val Little for asking me to carry the inestimable Georgina Beyer today. I'm not sure anyone could do her fire full justice, but I thought about her the whole way, her wicked wit, her deep real wisdom, and the legacies she left us - being he whole self in the public eye, an early lighthouse for trans people in Aotearoa, and still large in the minds of many who might otherwise have fallen for the current rhetoric and stereotyping. So on today's run I went off-track, to find the plaque to Kupe I knew was hidden in the harakeke, and listened for Georgina there. I swear someone laughed behind me. The last random song that played on this run was Madonna's Live To Tell. That felt right. We did. We do. We are, and we will, and we'll never stop. A pinkush, masculine hand, beringed, held in a loose open fist against green flax, blue sea, grey cloudy sky. On the back of the hand, scrolled initials in pen: GB. A very weathered bronze plaque with intermittently faded lettering, and a scratchy outline of what might be a waka at the top. Readable text includes: HISTORICAL & EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATION TO BEGINNINGS, BRAVED INCREDIBLE VOYAGES BY CANOE OF TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA (PORT NICHOLSON THE GREAT POLYNESIAN EXPLORER-NAVIGATOR. KŪPE AND OCEAN-GOING WAKA TAUA (CANOES), MATAHORUA AND ORT NICHOLSON CIRCA AD 950. MES ISLAND (MATIU AND WARD ISLAND (MAKARO) SEATOUN, HE NAMED TE AROARO O-KUPE
June 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Beyond exhaustion w Mum in hosp, but out there running for #SweatWithPride every chance I get. Every $ means a 🌈 kid might have somewhere to turn where they didn't. We need that future.

Today, any amount donated will be doubled. Please help if you can

www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
June 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Beyond exhaustion w Mum in hosp, but out there running for #SweatWithPride every chance I get. Every $ means a 🌈 kid might have somewhere to turn where they didn't. We need that future.

Today, any amount donated will be doubled. Please help if you can

www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
June 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Today's #SweatWithPride run was for Alex.

I'm so so sorry they failed you. We'll carry the truth of you every way we know how.
Smooth sand with a shining line of sea. A large cursive letter A with a spiral tail is drawn in the sand.
June 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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catespice.bsky.social
I'm dedicating the last 2 weeks of Sweat With Pride to the memory of the 17yr old trans man known as Alex.

Donations go toward funding REAL help for trans people, so that we can prevent such tragedies happening again.

If you don't want to sponsor me, please sponsor ANYONE doing SWP that you know!
catespice.bsky.social 🫜🌷🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🌷🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · May 31
Kia ora Bluesky!
I’m 🏳️‍🌈Sweating With Pride🏳️‍🌈 as of tomorrow!

All of June I’ll be exercising for 42 minutes each day to raise funds to combat discrimination against Rainbow folks.

I would love you to death if you could donate even a few dollars for the cause

www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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rightsaotearoa.bsky.social
Okay, Team Human Rights: Time to put the pressure on RNZ.
Email:
Paul Thompson paul.thompson@rnz.co.nz
Mark Stevens mark.stevens@rnz.co.nz

Demand: (1) Article retracted immediately, (2) Apology, (3) Examination of Editorial Processes and (4) Ruth Hill to be sacked or disciplined.

GO FOR IT!
June 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Today's #SweatWithPride run was for Alex.

I'm so so sorry they failed you. We'll carry the truth of you every way we know how.
Smooth sand with a shining line of sea. A large cursive letter A with a spiral tail is drawn in the sand.
June 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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catespice.bsky.social
Finally we get to hear the voice of the trans teen who died, whose transphobic parents completely controlled his narrative in that appalling RNZ article last week.

We hear you, Alex.

www.webworm.co/p/lifeanddea...
The Life and Death of Alex
6000 messages show the real story behind the horrific reporting on the death of a trans teen.
www.webworm.co
June 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Doing my utmost, between long days w Mum in hosp, to fit in running for kind #SweatWithPride sponsors.

So tired I'm wispy, but goats keep their promises.

Today's run was for @janerefreshed.bsky.social. The name you entrusted me floated in the early morning rain on the coast. A light beam appeared🩵
A very wet-day blurry view over choppy pewter sea, broody dark rainclouds. A large boat, ferryish, is mid-distant, indistinct with rain. Beyond, a low dark smudge of island, misted hills. A striking, thick beam of bright white light lances from the clouds to the water left of the ship. A glimpse of rain-soaked wooden boardwalk is foreground.
June 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Awful family emergency (unpostable as there are disgusting ppl sniffing vulnerability, hesitate to post even this).

But won't be here, again, or anywhere but in the world.

Poet friends, I'm sorry I'm so unreliable. Anyone who needs to give up on me, I understand. Pride sponsors, I'm so sorry 😭
June 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Little LitMag That Could does it again, & with flair. Go, buy! ✨️

Congrats Shaun & everyone with work in the anthology

(& v personal thanks to Alan & the eds for including 2 poems with my whole 🌈 heart inside. My work's rarely seen the world this year, cos Life; really glad it gets to here.
alanparrywriter.co.uk Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · Jun 2
Today’s a monumental day for The Broken Spine @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

We launch 🌈 #OutSkirts, edited by Romina Ramos & Perry Gasteiger, and 🌈 #RainbowsInTheRough, where Shaun queers unlikely pop culture icons & artefacts.

This is what happens when we hand over space and truly listen.
The cover of out.skirts: an anthology of LGBTQIA+ writing, published by The Broken Spine. The title is set in large white lowercase text, with the subtitle in a black rectangle with white uppercase letters. The background features a mosaic grid of small squares in a gradient that shifts from yellow at the top through orange and red to deep magenta at the bottom. The Broken Spine logo appears in the lower-left corner. The cover of Rainbows in the Rough by Shaun Ponsonby. Subtitle: “The Unlikely Queer Icons That Shaped a Closeted Queen.” A bright yellow background features black silhouettes of pop culture figures in a circular formation: clockwise from top left – Prince, Xenomorph (from Alien), Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Homer Simpson, Frasier Crane with headphones and a mic, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld), and Laurel and Hardy. At the centre is the iconic prism from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, with a rainbow beam emerging. The Broken Spine logo is in the bottom left corner.
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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alanparrywriter.co.uk
Today’s a monumental day for The Broken Spine @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

We launch 🌈 #OutSkirts, edited by Romina Ramos & Perry Gasteiger, and 🌈 #RainbowsInTheRough, where Shaun queers unlikely pop culture icons & artefacts.

This is what happens when we hand over space and truly listen.
The cover of out.skirts: an anthology of LGBTQIA+ writing, published by The Broken Spine. The title is set in large white lowercase text, with the subtitle in a black rectangle with white uppercase letters. The background features a mosaic grid of small squares in a gradient that shifts from yellow at the top through orange and red to deep magenta at the bottom. The Broken Spine logo appears in the lower-left corner. The cover of Rainbows in the Rough by Shaun Ponsonby. Subtitle: “The Unlikely Queer Icons That Shaped a Closeted Queen.” A bright yellow background features black silhouettes of pop culture figures in a circular formation: clockwise from top left – Prince, Xenomorph (from Alien), Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Homer Simpson, Frasier Crane with headphones and a mic, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld), and Laurel and Hardy. At the centre is the iconic prism from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, with a rainbow beam emerging. The Broken Spine logo is in the bottom left corner.
June 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Truth is, dozens (yeah probably hundreds) of you are already well-cosied into my atria. I always hope on some level you know it and whiff the sea wherever you are.

That said, if you'd still like to sponsor my pride runs this month, you can do that here: www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
June 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social
Well both #BeardedBardsOfBlueSky readings are in the books now. I am absolutely floored that between the two readings we were able to raise over $2,000 for @translifeline.org!

The website site will remain up for a while if you want to donate:

beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · Apr 6
Ever notice how many of your favorite poets and writers on here have beards? What if you could hear a bunch of them read together? What if you could help a great cause at the same time? I give you:
#BeardedBardsOfBlueSky

Info and registration links:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Against a background collage of beards, text announces two online readings of the Bearded Bards of BlueSky to raise funds for Trans Lifeline: April 26 Barlow Adams upfromsumdirt Casey Stegman James McConachie Dan Murphy 5/31 Todd Dillard Jared Beloff Gregory Crosby Julian Day David Rosenthal 5:00-6:30 EDT beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM