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Alex Jenkins
@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
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Good morning, mystery garden cat.
A black and white cat sitting on an overgrown lawn looking vaguely in the direction of a rose trellis.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Finally someone focused on the issues that matter.
Zohran sign-yellow font on blue background-that reads "REISSUE Bottom's Dream"
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A doll on top of the beanbag.
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Youngest has decided to do an impromptu reenactment of the June Days uprising.
My kitchen doorway barricaded by a beanbag, blanket, and various other unidentified toys.
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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And for those fluent in German:
ALLERSEELEN Was hab ich getan? Die Nacht besamt, als könnt es noch andere geben, nächtiger als diese. Vogelflug, Steinflug, tausend beschriebene Bahnen. Blicke, geraubt und gepflückt. Das Meer, gekostet, vertrunken, verträumt. Eine Stunde, seelenverfinstert. Die nächste, ein Herbstlicht, dargebracht einem blinden Gefühl, das des Wegs kam. Andere, viele, ortlos und schwer aus sich selbst: erblickt und umgan-gen. Findlinge, Sterne, schwarz und voll Sprache: benannt nach zerschwiegenem Schwur. Und einmal (wann? auch dies ist vergessen): den Widerhaken gefühlt, wo der Puls den Gegentakt wagte.
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Happy All Souls day from Paul Celan (trans. by Michael Hamburger)
ALL SOULS What did I do? Seminated the night, as though there could be others, more nocturnal than this one. Bird flight, stone flight, a thousand described routes. Glances, purloined and plucked. The sea, tasted, drunk away, dreamed away. An hour soul-eclipsed. The next, an autumn light, offered up to a blind feeling which came that way. Others, many, with no place but their own heavy centres: glimpsed and avoided. Foundlings, stars, black, full of language: named after an oath which silence annulled. And once (when? that too is forgotten): felt the barb where my pulse dared the counter-beat.
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Should have posted this yesterday (Shelley à la Perec):
OZYMANDIAS I know a pilgrim from a distant land Who said: Two vast and sawn-off limbs of quartz Stand on an arid plain. Not far, in sand Half sunk, I found a facial stump, drawn warts And all; its curling lips of cold command Show that its sculptor passions could portray Which still outlast, stamp'd on unliving things, A mocking hand that no constraint would sway: And on its plinth this lordly boast is shown: "Lo, I am Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, O Mighty, and bow down!" Tis all that is intact. Around that crust Of a colossal ruin, now windblown, A sandstorm swirls and grinds it into dust.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Real-life The Thick of It, pt. 456,830
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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It's long overdue, but I finally picked up a copy of this:
Front cover of the NYRB Classics edition of Erich Auerbach's "Dante: Poet of the Secular World."
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Not sure why my hotel room number is vertical, as though they expect me to be drunk and listing while locating it. Which, okay, lucky guess.
A hotel room door with the number 29 scrawled vertically.
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Roof is on but was a considerable faff. Many failures of alignment.
The Big G with its black roof attached, sun roof popping at a jaunty angle.
October 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Working tailgate, sans spare wheel.
It's a photo from behind of the side-opening tailgate, with a mounting point for a spare wheel and a latch at the right.
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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The end is nigh. Of this build, not the world. Probably.
The Merc, the manual open to the start of bag 17, and a glass of Adnams Broadside.
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds
Timorous and slothful.
My vice mounted to a bench in my garage.
October 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Rear quarter panels completed. Pina colada beer: mostly drunk.
Check out the hindquarters on that. Phwoar.
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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How will very strong sour beer affect my building skills? Let's find out.
The OG-Wagen, the manual pt. 2 (manual strikes back), an empty can of pina colada sour beer next to a nearly full pint glass.
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Long-time followers (you know who you are, bless you) will know I have an unfortunate weakness for unusual booze. Guess what was in the supermarket's "Reduced to Clear" section (probably for good reason)?
Me holding a can of Vault City "Caught in the Rain" pina colada sour beer. 7.8% ABV. Yikes.
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Rear bumper and lights. Time for bed.
It's the back of the Wagen, oh-oh, the back of the Wagen. The builder is flagging, it's the back of the Wagen (repeat).
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Headlights! (And background beer.)
Die Vorderseite des Wagens mit der big ol' saucer-eyed headlamps.
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Update: I have missed a step 🙁
The page I overlooked.
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Bonnet built and attached, and unless I've missed a step, there are *two* spares of the very connector I needed earlier in the build.
The G-Wagen bonnet in lurid orange with two grey connectors resting on top.
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Pikachu triptych
Pikachu, he of Pokémon fame, has been to the park, where he has bounced, spun, and rested.
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Not sure what the other 40% is
A slice of brie. The label says Brie 60%.
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The car has its grille and a Stuttgart licence plate.
A close-up of the aforementioned black grille with a white licence plate. The registration number is S (Stuttgart code) and then G 1979, which is the year the civilian G-Wagen was launched. I think. Don't quote me. Tarkovsky's "Stalker" came out that year and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Lots happened is what I'm trying to say.
October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This was quite satisfying to build.
My left hand holding the assembled grill of the vehicle. It is orange and black and has the Mercedes three-pointed star in the middle.
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM