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charlie hensler
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"Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you"
- John Ashbery

sun out in november thus a walk in the woods
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
last of fall around here
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
a fall walk in the park
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Victoria Chang -
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
a spooky ghost poem I forgot I had written -
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A little ode for a dear one.
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Louise Glück, on fall.

"Or was the point always
to continue without a sign?"
October 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
my narrator
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
a late dahlia
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Robert Hass, "To A Reader"
#smallpoemsunday
September 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Here's one for fall - and thank you @mayacpopa.bsky.social for picking this up in Poetry Today's August poems. 🙏 🙏
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Robert Bly

"they wag but can't explain"
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Ah, Henry. From today's Paris Review email.
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm going to have to watch again - on the first pass the dioramas were all I could take in.
July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
a good morning to lean and loaf - relieved of my cranky gallbladder the other day
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
an afternoon of incoming rain, rejections, and a bike ride with pelicans
June 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Aracelis Girmay

"This is the only kingdom."
June 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Li-Young Lee's description of a "formal realization" made in his poem in the Yale Review, and...I sip my coffee, realizing I know nothing 🙄.

yalereview.org/article/li-y...
June 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
prolific this year, the foxglove
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
oh hello there
June 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The best sort of mail - thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Alice Notley

"If you love me, all
of nature, let the wind blow."
May 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
suddenly the barred owl we’ve heard all spring appears
May 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I’m haunted by this cormorant off the beach the other day.
April 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A favorite Robert Hass poem.
April 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM