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Collage of lime-green hydrangeas in a patio garden outside a house
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Letter from America, bright new chapbook by @j-tkelly.bsky.social -- I like the format, an unusual, non-standard size, I think? Like B5 but not as tall... very nice, anyway & original. The contents too! 😍😊Thank you, J-T. 🙏 Pub by above/ground press run by Canada's sweetheart @robmclennan.bsky.social
Chapbook with red cover and blue insert: 'More of How to Read the Bible' 'poems by J-T Kelly'. Image of ancient embroidered slipper. ORIGINAL SIN When I was born I grew a horn Now all my hats are torn SUCCESSION Eli's sons were bad Samuel's sons were bad, too The Lord's own sons, bad Close-up of cover image
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A new chapbook coming from Shearsman Books very shortly -- "a small collection of torment and consolation" 😳.

Pre-order page and sample poems here --
www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542:

-- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙
July 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Purple hearts 💜💜
Collage of photos of centres of purple crocuses with yellow, saffron, centres
March 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Spring solace
Close-up of purple crocus with yellow centre Daffodils against background of dried hedge Purple daisy-like flower with yellow centre Tree with white blossom at front of house
March 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Praps they're very old or just very tired
Sign in car park, among cars and trees, which reads 'Very Slow Pedestrians Crossing'
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Nothing gold can stay -- Robert Frost
Golden sunset behind a line of trees on the horizon. Silhouette of tree in foreground. Gold-yellow sunset behind trees on the horizon, a touch of pink in the sky. The sun going down in a blaze of gold. Water and a fence in the foreground. Sun going down amid golden clouds, silhouettes of bare winter trees.
February 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Egrets 🤍
#NoRegrets
White bird against sunlight in tree
February 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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This Thursday in Stroud #Mariposa🦋🦋🦋🦋
February 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Michael Longley 27 July 1939 - 22 January 2025
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.

(Isaiah 50:4)
A cluster of red berries on dry twigs Green berries on red stems with tree trunk and tree tips and houses in background against grey sky Close up of green berries and brown leaves with street scene out of focus in the background Luminous red berries against dry vegetation
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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The world is too much with us; late & soon,
Getting & spending, we lay waste our powers;--
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon...

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not...

#Advent 🕯️
William Wordsworth, 'The World is Too Much With Us' The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
December 2, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Brighton murmuration

📷SG Clarkson
Starlings in an elegant parasol-like shape, over upright structure which acts as handle for the 'parasol' canopy, near edge of land, with apartments and other buildings on one side and sea and a broken piece of pier on the other.
December 1, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the sheet
and penny-masks its eye to yield
the star-snowed fields of sky.

#Advent 🌿🕯️
Rowan Williams, 'Advent Calendar' He will come like last leaf's fall. One night when the November wind has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth wakes choking on the mould, the soft shroud's folding. He will come like frost. One morning when the shrinking earth opens on mist, to find itself arrested in the net of alien, sword-set beauty. He will come like dark. One evening when the bursting red December sun draws up the sheet and penny-masks its eye to yield the star-snowed fields of sky. He will come, will come, will come like crying in the night, like blood, like breaking, as the earth writhes to toss him free. He will come like child.
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Brighton prom & Hove Sculpture

📷: SG Clarkson
Wave breaking, sunlight on sea, streaks of cloud in morning sky. Sun reflected on waves breaking on shingly beach. Silhouette against sun of sculpture of figures flying through a circular grid.
November 29, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Chimney tops
A collage of chimney tops reflected in a window at dusk.
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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I woke with words in my head, as used to happen a lot when I started writing: "Poetry is a wounded man." 😳💜✝️ #FridayWords

🖼️Fra Angelico
The Crucifixion Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) Italian ca. 1420–23 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 603 This early work by Fra Angelico, likely made for private devotion, accentuates the drama of Christ’s Crucifixion. In the foreground the Virgin collapses in grief, surrounded by the lamenting Mary Magdalen and Mary of Cleofas. Behind them, a band of Roman soldiers and their horses stand watch around the cross. Some men focus their gazes on Christ, while others exchange glances. The innovative circular composition was inspired by the bronze doors created by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Baptistry of Florence. In its focus on spatial effects and convincing human emotion, this painting provides evidence of what would become Fra Angelico’s trademarks.
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Red around town
Red ribbon decoration on blue door with glass windows reflecting the street Giant wristwatch in shop window with red wooden sill. Red flowering shrub mural reflection in large ornate round mirror plus on tiles over the mirror Little Henry Hoover ceramic mug on counter
November 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM