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Branch-Off

Try to love a person
The way you love
A tree

With their current version
A branch-off,
Potentially

Love is no recursion,
Man -
No trajectory
February 13, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Paul Cannon
Grounded
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"When the insistent
dull roar of the
world reaches
murderous crescendo
in my body,
its long knives piercing,
I take my wounded self
along bush paths
folding into nature,
just for my soul"

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February 10, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Kate Bremer
Mirror Pantoum
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"I took down the sparkle-lines–
Severe drought, Red Flag warnings
For two trees, for Faeries, for Light;
Fill up water bottles and charge devices. ...

I took down the sparkle lines tonight."

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February 11, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Instead of a late afternoon
Hot tea,
Would you accept an "I love you"
From me?

☺️
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Kim Whysall-Hammond
Fear
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"Take joy in a friend, end your despair, air
your burdened soul. Roll
with the glorious world.

Unfurl."

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February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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The Last Line We Hold is a cento, built entirely from the final lines of every poem in What We Hold On To: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On.

(A little bird told me Nick might have stayed up into the wee hours creating this ✨️ -Rachel)

#poem #poetry #chapbook #coping #connection
The Last Line We Hold (Cento)
I am late to work again. Just make it simple, I tell myself,and say thank God you’re not a therapist. I am lighter for my foot bath and ready—ready for a new me,garnished with exotic island melodie…
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February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Friends: physical copies of "What We Hold On To" are now available. See the link for details!

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Paperback Edition of  “What We Hold On To” is Now Available
Hello friends. If you’ve been following the project over the past few weeks, you’ve already seen many of the poems as they’ve gone up on the site. We’re happy to announce that the paperback e…
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February 8, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

My editor's copy of What We Hold On To *finally* arrived this morning. Nick got his week before last, I think, but we went like 10 days without mail here (snow).

The paperback will be available for purchase within about a day. I'll post a link when ready! #poetry #booksky
February 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Audrey Howitt
Triage
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"I tape over my cracked edges.
The memories
the smells
the wanting
what I can’t have. There is always that.
A hole I can’t fill
that pulls those edges apart."

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February 6, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Hey human-like statue
You have a paper tissue?
Thank you, thank you, thank you
(Just crying, 'cause you're beautiful)
February 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Carol Anne Johnson
After the Breaking
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The silence after storm
is never clean—
it hums with echoes,
splinters of a voice
you did not choose.

You walk through it barefoot,
collecting pieces,
sometimes cutting yourself
on memories that refuse
to dull.

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February 5, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Joshua Walker
Anthem of the Leaking Roof
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"The roof will cave someday—
fine.
Until then, my buckets are thrones,
and I sit crowned by persistence."

#poem #poetry #booksky #chapbook #resilience #defiance #persistence #sisu
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
#Cat

Don't be like a frightened cat
Who shows up when there are no guests
Remain the mouse, for I'm the cat
Remember, mice are hard to get

But if you're human, here and now
Let your cat her love avow
Cats are unpredictable,
Unlike this love - meow, meow
February 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Kerfe Roig
Friends
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Friends arrive in random order,
not really invited, yet braiding
themselves into your being until
they become knots that keep
the chaos from fraying your edges—
you reflect and are reflected

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February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Frank Johnson
Life Sentence
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"and let tomorrow look after itself,
our little life being rounded with a sleep,
and life, what is it but a dream
which is not to say life can’t be cruel
as nothing is certain but death and taxes"

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January 31, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Let a poem or letter
Be a bit better
Not littered with bitter
Words written
By me
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Eileen ‘ike’ West
A Sprinkle of Magnetic Mist

Excerpt:
"Macrocosm a mess?
I micro-dose my close community of loved ones.
Distressed for too long, I shut out the shouting, hole up,
then scribble and post old-fashioned snail-mail.
I grow calm through the writing."

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A Sprinkle of Magnetic Mist
Eileen ‘ike’ West Macrocosm a mess?I micro-dose my close community of loved ones.Distressed for too long, I shut out the shouting, hole up,then scribble and post old-fashioned snail-mail.I grow cal…
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January 27, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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Meghan Woodward
Survival Snacking
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"Chocolate dripped fingers frozen,
the destruction, brutality
darkened truffles replace
pleasure, sensation
coating me with love no longer here."

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January 25, 2026 at 2:04 AM
It may be way too early
To cautiously look back
But you were my healing journey
A challenge, gift, and task

Silence can be peaceful
A surface, still and vast
In a place where it's no issue
If silence love outlasts

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January 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Kim Whysall-Hammond
Sleep is Negotiable
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"We learnt that sleep is negotiable
but the siren wail of a newborn is not

We learnt that there is no replacement
no salve for grief, just life lived on"

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January 24, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Barbara Harris Leonhard
It’s All about Death, Really
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Excerpt:
"I let go of unhealthy relationships. Minds that no longer
hold resonance to mine, may you be well.
I’ll miss you, but I no longer grieve your absence
or fear abandonment.
I forgive you & myself."

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It’s All about Death, Really
Barbara Harris Leonhard The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.—Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence I am ready to shed the old clothes,the tatters that hang off…
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January 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Phoebe Shade
Ladybug
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"Carried again by the breeze,
she finds you
and lifts one tiny wing
to wave hello—
the way ladybugs
often do."

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January 22, 2026 at 11:39 PM