Sarah Alice
banner
bandytstamp.bsky.social
Sarah Alice
@bandytstamp.bsky.social
a willingness to play to ashes
often the shadow seems more real than the body

“After A Death”, Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly)
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
their smoke will fill your mouth

Elizabeth Willis, from “The Witch”💀
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
June Jordan, from “Poem at the Midnight of My Life”

#smallpoemsunday
October 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
the owlishness of certain people

Heather Christle, from PAPER CROWN
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Who am I, I’ve said

Natalie Shapero, from STAY DEAD
#smallpoemsunday
September 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
the deep / rosined bow sound of the living

Dorianne Laux, “Cello”
#smallpoemsunday
September 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
closing thoughts for James Dobson

Wanda Coleman, “Black-Handed Curse”
August 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy anniversary, Tom & Kristi!💛

Paige Lewis, “When I Tell My Beloved I Miss the Sun”
#smallpoemsunday
August 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Anne Carson, from MEN IN THE OFF HOURS

#smallpoemsunday
August 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
new ginger bestie: (tap tap tap) Can I get in there? Earth’s haunted.

me: What?

ginger b: Earth’s haunted.
July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Out of the spigot / streams a thirsty noncompliance

Diane Seuss, from “Coda”
#smallpoemsunday
June 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ross Gay, “American Dreaming”
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
this is what it’s like to dream, to have access to all these stories and be in one unquestionably.

–Alice Notley🖤
May 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
new candid of my heart
May 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fanny Howe, “Yellow Goblins”
May 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Michael Ondaatje, from “House on a Red Cliff”
May 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The first word wasn’t love, was it?

Alina Stefanescu, from her incredible new collection, MY HERESIES
#smallpoemsunday
April 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sarah, the teacher would report, eschews / the burdens of responsibility.

Linda Pastan, “Ethics”
April 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
another murder
April 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Robert Hass, from “Faint Music”

#smallpoemsunday
April 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lizzie Riches, “The Gardener’s Assistant”
April 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember, green’s your color.

Gwendolyn Brooks & Ross Gay
April 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
say you came from the moon

Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Cusp”
April 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Prayer to Artemis”🏳️‍⚧️

by Diotimus
translated by Stephanie Burt
March 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
calling me by many names / that are secret and filled with light

Denis Johnson
#smallpoemsunday
March 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM