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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro
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starstuffstudio.com She/Her Poet from Cleveland made of star stuff 🌟 Individual Excellence Award Winner 2022 from the Ohio Arts Council. SPACE SPECTACULAR (2018) from Ghost City Press. Narrative Medicine.
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My body is a canvas for protest. My existence is political.
a blue void spiraling into the kathunk of my fist-sized heart. Every muscle feels like it's made of cotton, on the thin breeze of the whims of my nerves, stretched over the weave of my basket skeleton.
How do I explain agitation like the fizz of a live wire? A spark at the base of my skull tremors in my veins like the movements of maggots crawling a corpse. I've got something inside me I dont understand,
Everything is a social construct. I want to live like a sunflower--following the sunshine around the sky and giving shelter to tired bees in the twilight.

#poetrysky
Sweet 3 year old πŸ’—πŸ©·πŸŒΈβ€οΈ
Happy June #pridemonth πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈβ€οΈπŸ©·πŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ©΅πŸ’œπŸ€ŽπŸ–€πŸ©ΆπŸ€

Enjoy this gorgeous clematis flower on your Monday!
I had not heard of this, thank you for sharing.
55 years ago 4 students were murdered by the national guard on Kent State's campus. #neverforget #may41970 #kentstate
This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
I circulate.
I #plan curves in the body
Like I'm mapping a route.
You find me small and split
Between your palms.
A voice catches
In your throat.
Mine.

#vss365
As the sun reaches zenith, grass gets a #promotion and the trees who have spent winter asking for a raise finally unroll their leaves and get to work. My world is greening in the way it should, nothing but the flowers need answer my call.

#vss365 #earthday
As far as verbs go, #place weakens a sentence with delicate hesitance. Place your hand in mine, no, grasp it. Thread your fingers into the lace of my own, make a mess of our palms. Braid your hands into dirt. There is no being delicate in the dark, no location to which you can escape.

#vss365
Night transforms flowers to hellish maws gaping in shadows and starlight.

#horroryard #ccpl #ccplreadwrite #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrysky
#Haiku
by Issa

This dewdrop world--
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet...

#poetry
The roots of ancient oaks twist the earth like the #indivisibility of veins in your palm. I feel your heartbeat in the bark. A scar is just a sign of aging, a growing braid of skin and soul and cambium and heartwood that no one can unwrench.

#vss365
While the fire burns you are paralyzed, the flames lick the shag carpet of nostalgia and the clawed feet of the gilded age sofa. Why do we want to go back there? Aren't we all #guilty of rose-coloring some kind of the past? You give into the fire because it is all that is left to do.

#vss365
Season of the spring #witch
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β€œCan anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the Earth without making it unfit for all life?”

-Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING
nrdc.org NRDC @nrdc.org Β· Mar 13
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced plans to repeal or weaken 31 crucial standards that protect public health and address the climate crisis.

These actions send a clear signal: Polluters get a free ride and the rest of us will pay for it.
EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target
The Environmental Protection Agency didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations β€” whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.
www.npr.org
My body is a canvas for protest. My existence is political.
The half-moons of the sun scattered under the big oak tree, #penumbra moment, I sit in the half shadow and trace my fortune in a crescent arc.

#vss365