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Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf.bsky.social
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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Flash Reader for Split Lip Mag. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af.

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another capital cover
Book cover for JACQUES DERRIDA The Death Penalty VOLUME II which shows an old illustration of an execution scene, where a seated and blindfolded man is about to be decapitated by the executioner behind him, who wields a giant sword. In front of the seated condemned man is another executioner, there to hold the condemned’s head in place.
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This Saturday! Join me & @writesloud.bsky.social LIVE if you’re in the CT / NYC area:

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AUTHOR EVENT with Hannah Grieco in conversation with Adrian Dallas Frandle FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT JOIN US: Saturday, November 15th at 4:00 P.M. STORIES scan the code for your ticket! HANNAH GRIECO at Obodo Serendipity Books book talk and signing 3588 Main St, Stratford, CT 06614 PH: 203.209.9036
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Penance
picture of an altar with a gold pin of a man bound (in S&M style) in front of a pieta statue where Mary’s head is a golden stag head. There is also a bell with an ibus on top.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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enjoying Dispatch for plot reasons only
a screenshot of the game Dispatch that shows a locker room scene with a large burly superhero lifting a slender man off the ground, as his towel slips off
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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“Politics (2025)”
a chair arm with screws and a drink holster hole in a configuration that looks like a screaming face
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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CT & Tri-State friends, please join us!

Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!

obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
Author Event flyer for Hannah Grieco Join Us Saturday November 15th at 4:00 pm (a QR code says "scan the code for your ticket!") at Obodo Serendipity Books book talk and signing 3588 Main St, Stratford, CT 06614 PH: 203.209.9036 The flyer shows a copy of the orange book "First Kicking, Then Not" Stories by Hannah Grieco, and an author photo of Grieco herself
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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time to re-read
Book cover photo of POWERS OF HORROR An Essay on Abjection by JULIA KRISTEVA the cover is a plain white background with a raven or crow flying in the foreground
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Denise Levertov

#smallpoemsunday
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the page of a book: What Harbinger? Glitter of grey oarstrokes over the waveless, dark, secretive water. A boat is moving toward me slowly, but who is rowing and what it brings I can t yet see.
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I do not have kids, but the chihuahua roused me early enough that I happened upon a raccoon as it was jumping the 6’ fence like a teen fleeing the cops
a blurry picture of a raccoon climbing a metallic fence
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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“Baking Tips I wish I knew Sonnet!”
screenshot of a baking video reel from YouTube, where a woman is icing a cake, and the video description reads “Baking Tips I wish i know Sonnet!”
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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we are the bane of our neighbors!
a flyer with leaves in the background: Leave Leaves! We can protect our pollinator population this season by providing them with winter cover. Nature likes it messy! Invertebrates such as bees, butterflies, and moths in all stages overwinter in leaf litter. This one action is key to sustaining our natural food web. Leaf your lawns alone! Audubon
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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next up
Book cover for Jacques Derrida’s “The Death Penalty: Volume 1” which shows an image of what looks like a public execution where there are figures in black robes, one holding a crucifix facing the gallows, with a black veil covering it from the opposite side
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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to be monk or snail?
Mikey, the brown chihuahua, sticks just his face outside of a pile of grey blanket
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This was an illuminating read, except for the final 2 chapters, which are uncomfortable encomia to Pope JP Dos…
Book cover of This Incredible Need to Believe by Julia Kristeva and translated by Beverly Bie Brahic, it features a white lily flower and stock on a white background
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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And for a small time, the sheer cliff of everything
we never knew can rise in front of us

—

Marie Howe

(from “The Good Thief”)
picture of a book page: Mary's Argument To lead the uncommon life is not so bad. There is an edge we come to count on when all the normal signs don't speak, a startled vigilance that keeps us waking to watch the moon, the peculiar stars; the usual, underfoot, no more a solid comfort than a rock that might move as a turtle moves, so slowly only the nervous feel the sudden bump of the familiar giving way to unrequested astonishment. And for a small time, the sheer cliff of everything we never knew can rise in front of us like the warm dark, where starlight has its constant conception, where the idea of turtle blinked and was: a wry joke, an intricate affection.
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Andrei Codrescu
(from “Diapers on the Snow”)

#smallpoemsunday
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a picture of a white page, reading on the Snow 25 BY LUCIAN There are bubbles on the gold statue in the bathtub. If a bubble pops the whole world of people is killed. The dinosaur days start over again.
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The Analysis of Greg (2025)
Greg, a large brown lab, lays on a couch facing a chair in which a small chihuahua sits, facing him, like a psychiatrist in analysis
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Got this book today at the used book barn THAT CAME WITH LEAVES!
The book Learn the Trees from Leaf Prints with a print of a green leaf on the front with a bag next to it full of leaves.
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Denise Levertov

(from “Sands of the Well”)
photo of a book page: The Trace My friendships with one to two, yes, three men for whom once I felt the wildest, most painful longing, still retain, in their enduring transformation, some fragrance of those times, like a box where once the leaves of an exotic herb were kept, an herb of varied properties, useful and dangerous, long since consumed
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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philosophically stumped by this text spam question:
a screenshot of a text screen: Text Message • SMS Today 3:16 PM Do you have a second to talk for just a minute The sender is not in your contact list. Report Junk
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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perfect coffee drop fell from Heaven on my St Augustine notes this morning (or Biblically Accurate Droplet)
A lined notebook with a splashmark of brown coffee over some annotations, lime “I prayed” and “nugatory” barely visible in pencil on the page
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Mikey & I are tucked in for the weekend with @djvorreyer.bsky.social’s new book!
Mikey, the brown chihuahua, is in a blanket next to “Unrivered” by Donna Vorreyer, a slim book of poems with a collage of blues on the front
October 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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glad to see so many gathered
Michael, Adrian, and Matt stand on the grass with a crowd of protestors in the background.
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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when i want to read the article
meme form of a handsome guy with the words "Noooo don't go behind the paywall your so sexy aha" at the bottom
October 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I said “Yes!” (to this bag of fake Funyuns)
Adrian holding out a hand with and onion ring on his ring finger
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM