Alex(ander) Gast
@alexgast.bsky.social
Queer poet, "queer" meaning both "odd" and "gay." Senior studying creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Former Firehouse Subs employee; neither substandard nor exceptional at the art of sandwich-making.
cavemen were probably like: "i'm so addicted to my boulder i can't stop going on my boulder." and their slightly condescending caveman buddy would say "you have to stop going on it at night and also put it in grayscale, i'm hardly ever on my boulder anymore."
March 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
cavemen were probably like: "i'm so addicted to my boulder i can't stop going on my boulder." and their slightly condescending caveman buddy would say "you have to stop going on it at night and also put it in grayscale, i'm hardly ever on my boulder anymore."
Short(ish!) Poem Sunday: "Averting the Gaze," by Benjamin Garcia. from Thrown in the Throat, 2020. Also found here: mistakehouse.org/article/mist...
"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"
"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"
January 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Short(ish!) Poem Sunday: "Averting the Gaze," by Benjamin Garcia. from Thrown in the Throat, 2020. Also found here: mistakehouse.org/article/mist...
"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"
"people don't stop being people / like the iis at the end of Pompeii"
Heather Christle. From POETRY, October 2013.
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".
December 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Heather Christle. From POETRY, October 2013.
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".
"It is that you want / to be in the snow / without having touched it".
Short Poem Sunday! Here's "In a Field, at Sunset" by Carl Phillips, from his 2023 Pulitzer-winning book, 'Then the War.' One of my favorite short poems ever.
December 22, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Short Poem Sunday! Here's "In a Field, at Sunset" by Carl Phillips, from his 2023 Pulitzer-winning book, 'Then the War.' One of my favorite short poems ever.
found this lovely recording of Tom Hiddleston reading T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and it is phenomenal! ...though i am intrigued / disturbed by the creative choice to put the recording over an uncomfortably close pic of Hiddleston's eyes. this is how Frodo looks at The Ring:
December 11, 2024 at 9:46 PM
found this lovely recording of Tom Hiddleston reading T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and it is phenomenal! ...though i am intrigued / disturbed by the creative choice to put the recording over an uncomfortably close pic of Hiddleston's eyes. this is how Frodo looks at The Ring:
Hi, Bluesky! I'm Alexander Gast. Interests: cats on Instagram / cats off Instagram / words that lift off the page like UFOs, braille / looking at stars and, in company, saying: "y'all, these stars!" / sifting bowls of syllables / line breaks, if the line brakes / air, cloud, sky.
Let's be friends!
Let's be friends!
November 14, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Hi, Bluesky! I'm Alexander Gast. Interests: cats on Instagram / cats off Instagram / words that lift off the page like UFOs, braille / looking at stars and, in company, saying: "y'all, these stars!" / sifting bowls of syllables / line breaks, if the line brakes / air, cloud, sky.
Let's be friends!
Let's be friends!