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- Born at CO2 327ppm.
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Hey! I'm gonna post this reminder every now and then: You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library (via Inter-Library Loan if you're outside of this system). Hot damn, I love the library!

#poetry #library
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Last one will pop up tomorrow. I’ll leave them up in the shop for a couple of days, then they’ll be gone forever.
I added this little gingerbread astronaut necklace to my shop this morning, and have a handful more I'll be adding over the next few days! Check it out at xxyxxy.com

#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Joel Pedersen
This is from a recent series I made of ceramic horse heads

#horses #equine #horsesculpture #art #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #womensart #ceramics
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Octosyllabic lines here, playing with the stresses of trochees, iambs, anapests and dactyls, all lying just below the surface...
Let's have a blast from the past! This was one of the most popular poems in my first full collection, The Knives of Villalejo.

By the way, I throw a copy of The Knives of Villalejo in for free when you purchase Whatever You Do, Just Don't...!
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At the beginning of the year I closed down international shipping due to the confusion and disarray the US government introduced through their new tariff schemes. Though they're still on their nonsense, I am deciding to open sales back up to a few select countries. See more at xxyxxy.com
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December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I added this little gingerbread astronaut necklace to my shop this morning, and have a handful more I'll be adding over the next few days! Check it out at xxyxxy.com

#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Joel Pedersen
Whoops! Reposting cuz I hit the wrong button. Joel experiments in several different mediums, always a delight! The paintings have an energy and vibrancy the photos don’t quite capture.
A
promise
of water
in the desert
is, at times, all that can be relied on.

Original painting available at: xxyxxy.com/items/uoWMd7F0

#painting #poetry #font #tetractys
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reposted by Joel Pedersen
If you are not following Joel or frequently visiting his website, you should be. Art, poetry, stamps, postcards, cool ceramic stuff, and a damned good dude to boot. Look at these two amazing paintings...
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I've been working on revamping my site blog and am in the process of adding many of my favorite pieces to it. Nice!

#painting #graphiteOnPaper #poetry
Initiation
An abstract painting.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reposted by Joel Pedersen
Hey! I'm gonna post this reminder every now and then: You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library (via Inter-Library Loan if you're outside of this system). Hot damn, I love the library!

#poetry #library
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October 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When the child was a child, it walked with its arms swinging. It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent, and this puddle to be the sea. When the child was a child, it didn't know it was a child, Charlie Brown.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night, Charlie Brown."
"Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father, Charlie Brown. Prepare to die."
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Age yourself with gaming.
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
psa: do not say “I animated” something if you did literally nothing but feed it through some ai service. Just say you fed it through ai, so I don’t have to dig around to find out that I want to block you.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
rest.
the heat
takes it all
away from you;
a dry wind chuckles across the desert.

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#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every so often, I ponder the uncomfortable truth that we are daily confronted with an avalanche of images (which devalues all images), and an inexcusable poverty of stroopwafels (which over-inflates the value of all stroopwafels).
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
do I
despise them so?
The men who have hoarded
our collective national wealth?
I do

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#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
look
out there
somewhere else
anywhere else
everywhere else is better than right here

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#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
their friendship forged in thievery
of childhoods and parental peace

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Recently moved mastodon instances to sfba.social/@xxyxxy for future reference!
Joel Pedersen (@xxyxxy@sfba.social)
47 Posts, 430 Following, 574 Followers · Human. Artist. Writer. Doing artist, writer, human things in the Californian desert.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just a hint of red #aurora down here in the southern california desert.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
we had but one job between us,
but no one can remember it;
and loathe to cause another fuss
we hold our tongue as they discuss
the next great swindle they'll commit.

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#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #quintilla
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I think I enjoy failing in graphite WAY more than I enjoy failing in paint, and given that very little of my work finds material support among those that like it, I might stick with graphite for the time being. Perhaps look at other mediums again for the coming year.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Well, I guess I have to post this one again...

the sole
opposition
is a rusted machine
seized up and refusing any
repair

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Some people might ask, who reads poetry really? Well, judges do!
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I want to take a moment to reject the rumor that RFK Jr. had anything to do with the Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982. Trucking in untruths, no matter how much you dislike him, or how much it seems they guy has it out for Tylenol, is unhelpful.
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Joel Pedersen
A
promise
of water
in the desert
is, at times, all that can be relied on.

Original painting available at: xxyxxy.com/items/uoWMd7F0

#painting #poetry #font #tetractys
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM