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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice)
@seagoatscreams.bsky.social
A bit earnest

Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
My whole heart to everyone who supported me to keep going with this even in the nightmare this month became. Your generosity means 200km later I've added $2,500 to this humaning bigger than itself - this tangible shout that the world is capable of more love than hate, even now, even now.
June 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Day 30 of ##SweatWithPride. A kind friend gave me 2 hrs respite from 24/7 cares to run. I didn't make my 30 June 20km goal, but ran until dark came at 14km. Today's run was for every name I've carried, but also specially for David (via @dejanajuk.bsky.social) & for @missyerem.bsky.social's beloveds
June 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Pls forgive no replies to msgs/mails/posts - all day every day & late into night at hosp w loved one, or long drive to/from. My few word-spoons get spent posting updates for Sweat with Pride, which was a promise, and there's just nothing left over beyond exhaustion so deep I'm a ghost
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Day 22 of #SweatWithPride - tender privilege to carry 2 beloveds for sponsor Sarah @palimpsest22.bsky.social

The coast was winterwild & lovely. I left an embodiment of those names in that fresh cold light, & asked it to live in them. As I did, a *huge* queen bumble alit on my shirt - a blessing.
June 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
On today's #SweatWithPride run, I carried two precious names into winter solstice dawn for friend & sponsor @fionadoris.bsky.social.

It was dark for the first 2km, then the shortest day's fire found the hills' back, and mine. The light was extraordinary.

I left the names with old guardians.
June 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#SweatWithPride Day 20

Mānawatia a Matariki, m'loves ✨️
June 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today's #SweatWithPride run was for Alex.

I'm so so sorry they failed you. We'll carry the truth of you every way we know how.
June 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Doing my utmost, between long days w Mum in hosp, to fit in running for kind #SweatWithPride sponsors.

So tired I'm wispy, but goats keep their promises.

Today's run was for @janerefreshed.bsky.social. The name you entrusted me floated in the early morning rain on the coast. A light beam appeared🩵
June 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The view at the end, including a pōhutukawa who made a promise
June 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Your Mum's legacy is beautiful & you clearly have her heart. It'd be my honour to carry her name - I picked the 11th, (that's my own Mum's lucky number & they sound like kin. It's also a Wed, which is the day I spend time taking her somewhere happy) 💗
June 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Cos ADHD/goat/xtra/odd, I made a #SweatWithPride calendar for sponsors who picked a date in June*

If you've already donated, do let me know your choice! Songs/pics to be posted on the day 🥰

If you want a date, link is below - every bit counts.

*names you asked me to carry concealed cos private 🩵
May 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Some of you know I run a wee bit.

Every day of June, I'm running for Pride, fundraising for 🌈 groups in Aotearoa. Every step I take is for ppl who might still be here if that kind of support had the $ it deserves.

If you'd like to sponsor me I'd love that 🩵

www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
May 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
in which we still believe
this is (we are)
much bigger inside

still habitable
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
day warps in
& the dresser
quietly burns
May 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
guess we eat wishes
spider said

time stops
& I
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Saying 'Rest in Peace' seems all wrong for Alice Notley, she who refused to 'ass-kiss every hour'.

Instead, I hope you're dancing like hell somewhere, probably with Frank O'Hara, on a wavelength dearer than any we can see

below image from 'For the Ride' (2020)
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🩵💗
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
& in some future mirror
we finally learned it

this reflection is peace
haunted fathoms beneath
May 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
& even now
reflecting
uncontained
May 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
this faery window is for side-eye
January 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
January 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
~Linda Pastan
one way or another...

(messing me up & putting me back together all at once, as she does)

from Voices - in The Five Stages of Grief, 1978
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Thank you to everyone holding our hearts & his through this - there are a whole lot of you & we feel it. I think he does, too. Lymphoma is currently the top contender of a bad bunch, but we're not putting hope to bed yet. For today, he's comfy, living his moments full of windowsills/sun/pats/love
January 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My few-months-ago birthday seedling is now full chocolate sun.
Watching bees find her is a poem & a spell against oh, phew, a whole bunch of decided unsunniness.
January 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
love passed through the ne(s)twork

& extra for you on those wires, hoping we all have a respite soon 🖤💛
January 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM