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Adam Houle
@houle.bsky.social
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Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC.

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Obsessed with these two cats chilling in front of an empty house #caturday
Two all black cats sitting in a yard. One is in the sun and the other is in shadow.
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#mossrules in a run of moss on pavement.
A yellow light singing on leaves and a run of moss on pavement
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A carpenter bee died in the night holding a lantana flower in our front yard. There are less lovely ways to go. #flowerreport
A carpenter bee clinging to a lantana flower.
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Insufficient accommodations for his highness this #caturday afternoon
A cat facing sideways in a blue velvety chair. He looks snotty as hell
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Seethe with us on #caturday
A striped cat seething with rage on the edge of a bed. His ears are nearly pinned
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Landon’s rooting for the Dodgers because she thinks it’s bullshit that Toronto gets an MLB team but Mexico City doesn’t. I’m rooting for Toronto and pretending it’s Montreal and Pedro Martinez is still pitching (and throwing Don Zimmer on his face).
1996 baseball card of Pedro Martinez pitching for the Montreal expos. He’s in mid-pitch, leg hikes back and about to turn toward the plate
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Our park’s fundraiser is tonight. We have a little budget and a lot of lumber we need to buy to replace rotting boardwalks. So we throw a party. People love us. People support the good work.
A distant shot of a few cars unloading band equipment and a dozen picnic tables with checkered tablecloth
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Just us cool guys hugging on a #caturday
A striped and closed-eyed cat resting across a couch. There is actually a grown ass man under the hefty fellow.
October 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Nice try, Wonderland
Please EAT the cupcakes written in three different fonts in ink on a whiteboard
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This turtle rushed us.
A sunlit turtle marching toward grass
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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#caturday with steady rain and a couch that needs a scratch.
A striped cat on a striped rug looking over to a couch arm he’s about to shred.
October 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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But alias, I do not!!
A cut and paste phrase from a website: it reads, “would be my top pick, if I had a choice, but alias, I do not!!”
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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#caturday with concern and a lip curl
A striped cat stretched on a braided rug.
October 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Quiet quiet street
Straight view down a dark street pocked with overhead street lights. The moon is behind the clouds, giving a bit of yellow
October 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Oh. 🤣
Two panels: one with a cartoon lunging forward with an open pocket knife; the second is the same character sheepishly folding the knife away
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A prison of his own making #caturday
A striped cat—Augie—on a ladder back chair looking thru the slats.
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Before the storm
View down an alley with brick on one side, stucco on the other. It opens into a parki lot with a small kiosk building in the middle.
September 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The exchange at Williston and I-95 is bleak
View from under a gas station awning. There are signs for i95 North and South, a partial McDonald’s sign, and a Wendy’s sign.
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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This old ham?
A cat under a coffee table peering in a suspicious fashion
September 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Tower Outreach, Pearl St, Darlington, SC
A looming white building with boarded and bricked windows. It’s an old theater that’s rundown and abandoned
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is Squirrel IV, Augie’s most favored pal. #caturday
A striped cat standing over a stuffed animal in a triumphant, wide-legged pose. What a victory!
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Never too early for treats
#caturday
A very moody image of a shadowy striped cat looking down. He is backlit from below like a villain. The background is a bookshelf and an old portrait in an oval frame.
September 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Move the blanket and pay the price
#caturday
A striped Augie looking pissed and stretched out on his little plush blanket.
September 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I love this Kay Ryan poem
Text of poem below: Doubt A chick has just so much time to chip its way out, just so much egg energy to apply to the weakest spot or whatever spot it started at. It can't afford doubt. Who can? Doubt uses albumen at twice the rate of work. One backward look by any of us can cost what it cost Orpheus. Neither may you answer the stranger's knock; you know it is the Person from Porlock who eats dreams for dinner, his napkin stained the most delicate colors.
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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At least one of us (me) has the good form to ignore the horrific palmetto bug that just scuttled into the dishwasher. #caturday
A striped cat staring down and to his right in a super intense and focused way. He just saw a palmetto bug.
August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM