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Allisin Bloom
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recovering cyborg
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DRAGON CHASE

they say it was the snake
snuck in the sacred secret
bite by which we all were
banned
as if the snake were not
the garden itself
and we, the licking tip
of it’s tail-hungry tongue
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
BORDERLINE

it takes more than a wall to build a home

#poem? #politics? or #plea?
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
PHYSICS IS CONSERVATIVE

#poem #poetry
physics is conservative
but if you can distill it
a cup of unrestricted joy
fills faster as you spill it

August 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
DON’T CALL ME TRANS

#poem #poetry
or woman, man
or girl or boy
i’m an alloy
alluvial fan

a mix of matter
just tryna find
if you don’t mind
a place to void my bladder

August 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
SUDAN

#poem #poetry
we've heard it said in warning “What victors get is spoiled”
but what we've wrought
—their bullets bought—
commodities immune to rot:
our grief, our gold, and oil

August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
FINISH TO START; RACE TO HAPPINESS

#poem #poetry

first to forgive
finds first relief
from letting go the fight
to hold ourselves un-
accountable at the other’s
expense
as if trades of the heart
could be made in the market
of ideas
August 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
THE BOOK BOUND IN MY OLD HOUND

#poem #poetry
the leather soft and supple
nothing went to waste
those days
remember? when the grouse came round
so trusting
even as I took two down
sffftch! sffftch! limp-necked home
for the hearth pot
arrows make so little sound
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
April 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I HAVE BECOME ✨
A FEEDER OF FANTASIES

#poem #poetry
confusing Gaia’s _is_ with her _seems_
but was the dance of liquid rock
she was before biology
more awake for lack of illusions
or more asleep for its lack of dreams?
April 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
is that which happens in my wake
the same thing as my doing?

whose pain did my pain shake?
oh, Chaos! how to stop the stewing?

#poem #poetry
April 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
WELCOME

#poem #poetry
come in! come in!
hope, may i feed you?
what do you neeeeed?
how’s this? goooood
want that? no?
thanks for your clarity
March 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
EASE

#poem #poetry
wake to backaches
knives in my hand

pain in waves
quiet waits
each day

i move still
soon forgetting
the way
water sinks
into the sand
March 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ASPIRATION

#poem #poetry
the word means
"to breathe upon"

a blessing blown
at What Will Be
to lift its wings in flight

February 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
MY DOG AND I

#poem #poetry
(she’s not my dog)
both dream of running with the pack
but leashed, we are, to live alone
i, to my deep love of peace
and she, her love of me

February 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
🎾DE TO 16 SECONDS

#poem #poetry
to serve your serve it serves
to pause in deepest gratitude
even if you just lost the point
strained your left adductor
still have bills stacked high
on the kitchen windowsill
what the doctor calls a positive
physical response
go through a relaxation stage
February 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
anyone who thinks there are two sides to every story has not learned to count very high
February 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
HURRY

#poem #poetry #roughdraft
says you’re falling behind
in a relay running out
in a race against hard time
trying to beat death
to its own finish line

but i am not running
sitting in unhurried time
boundless lazy river
drifting at the pace of breath
February 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
TOE TAG

this body’s spent
return to sender
this borrowed time
return to lender

#poem #poetry
February 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
CATCH THIS KITE TO FEEL ST. ELMO'S FIRE

#poem #poetry
the stars spell out your name in dolomite
in spirals, sketch your shape ’gainst sunless night
too far to touch, yet filling me with light
January 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
exit signs glow red
unreadable in war’s fog
still, i pray for wind



#poem #poetry #haiku
January 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM


how easily love turns to hate
when fighting over future Fate

how long doth every hatred last
when fighting to define Fates past

thus Free Will's only choice, somehow
to stop the fight, love What Is now



#poem #poetry
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
THE SPACE BETWEEN US

#poem #poetry

the leaves are in the air.
the air is in the leaves.
the roots are in the ground.
the ground is in the roots.
i am in the tree.
the tree is in me.
you are in my thoughts, now.
my thoughts, now, are in you.

January 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
January 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I don’t remember what we talked about that visit, just the scurry of minutes with their many legs and the cauldron of sun and the memory of another house, where we had both lived a long time ago in th...
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January 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NUANCE IN THE AGE OF McLUHAN

#poem #poetry
i would explain it to you
if you had the time to read
beyond a post or watch
beyond a TikTok spot
but it cannot be shared
but face to face in silence

December 30, 2024 at 11:56 PM