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Siân Killingsworth
@sianessa.bsky.social
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Poet, editor, musician’s muse. Impatient. Chapbook HIRAETH available now from Longship Press. She/her.
Buy my book: tinyurl.com/52an4d8x
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Happy Memorial Day.
Painting "Eating Figures (Quick Snack)," 1963 by Wayne Thiebaud.
Painting of a man and a woman sitting uncomfortably on two stools holding soft drinks and looking dubiously at hotdogs. Thiebaud's "Eating Figures" appears to be an example of concealed theft from Degas' L'Absinthe. At first glance the two paintings have little in common.... despite being painted in radically different settings of 19th century Paris and 20th century Sacramento, these paintings share a defining mood in which women and men are overcome by a world that cannot be remedied with alcoholic drinks or revived with fast food.
May 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Seen on the side of a bus in San Francisco
Sticker featuring a photo of Elon Musk crying while money burns behind him. The caption reads "Cute Baby. In the eyes of a baby you see the world as it should be: full of love, joy, and innocence."
May 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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First of the season!!!
Small monarch caterpillar crawling on a narrow leaf milkweed plant
May 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Please enjoy my neighbor's azaleas
Bubblegum pink azaleas with hot pink centers.
May 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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My whatever this plant is just bloomed!
House plant with purple and green variegated leaves and teeny tiny little lavender flowers with yellow centers
April 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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⏳ It's the last week of Poetry Month! To celebrate, for each copy of my chapbook ordered (tinyurl.com/52an4d8x) between April 22 & May 1, I’ll sign it and include a new mini poem handwritten on the back of a postcard.
April 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Bird protocol. Take a bird, leave a bird.
Turkey vulture perched on a power wire, spreading its wings to warm them in the sun.
April 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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5000 protestors in San Rafael, CA! #HandsOff
Photo of a protester holding a sign depicting Donald Trump squeezing the globe. The sign says hands off!
April 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Should I get this hat? It's a bit rude but it makes me laugh
Beige hat with "fuck off" embroidered on it
April 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Happy birthday! Sorry it's not actually a happy one. I don't have a dog anymore but this is my neighbor's cat, who treats my house like her second home
Goofy gray and white cat squirming around on top of a faded ottoman.
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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It's not too late to register for this AMAZING lineup of FABULOUS poets! Don't miss out! tinyurl.com/2ph4wab6
April 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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When the world seems against you, when life feels overwhelming, COME TO A POETRY READING!
I'll be reading with rob mclennan and Paul Corman-Roberts TOMORROW, April 2 at 5pm Pacific. Join us! Register at tinyurl.com/2ph4wab6
Flyer for online poetry reading featuring Sian Killingsworth, rob mclennan, and Paul Corman-Roberts. Wednesday, April 2 at 5pm Pacific. Register at tinyurl.com/2ph4wab6
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Chilling with @notatawp.bsky.social this evening at a very excellent open mic with some great poets!
Pic of a computer screen in a zoom meeting
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I know you are all bubbling with AWP excitement, but what will you do when it's over? How to soothe the emptiness? COME TO A POETRY READING! I'll be reading with the amazing rob mclennan and Paul Corman-Roberts on Weds April 2 at 5pm Pacific. Join us! Register at tinyurl.com/2ph4wab6
March 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Me and the regular group who like my posts
Mari lwyd. Welsh wassailing horse skulls
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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A poem of mine... Seems relevant again
Poem: If This Isn't a Pandora's Box by Siân Killingsworth. Published at https://www.glass-poetry.com/poets-resist/killingsworth-if.html
March 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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These are the traitors.
List of so-called Democratic senators who voted yes on cloture
March 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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NBD, just hanging out with Ada Limón this evening
US poet laureate Ada Limón
March 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Instead of the orange menace, I'm watching/listening to The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson (photos from my recent visit at SFMOMA)
Once again, I fall into my feminine ways There are stars exploding all around and there's nothing you can do
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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My poem "Ukraine" from my chapbook Hiraeth. The other half of my family is Ukrainian.
Ukraine I open my arms and satellite bombers buzzing like bees, fluff of pollen gusting in wind, this gray creaking spring. You are falling onto cold streets and across steps, puffer coats still puffed, dappled all over with lambent red. My cousins, so removed your skin is burned, the pollen is fire, springtime fronds and forced sprigs--artillery bursts. Your wounds bloom bright like sunflowers, arterial, your songs spinning out of you like silk.
March 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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At SFMOMA seeing the Amy Sherald exhibition. Stunning.
Trans Forming Liberty by Amy Sherald There is No Charm Equal to Tenderness of Heart by Amy Sherald
March 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you
Pieces of broken teacups held together with clear tape, arranged in the rough shape of maybe a face or possibly an octopus
March 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Happy St. David's Day!
The welsh dragon
March 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Second printing! Copies are available now at www.longshippress.com/online-store...
If you'd like yours signed, let me know!
Photo of a box full of copies of the poetry chapbook Hiraeth by Siân Killingsworth
February 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Feed cleanse
Vibrant heirloom hot pink rose with peach and yellow center.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM