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Haley (they/them)
@talkinghyphae.bsky.social
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Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.

Read my writing at haleybosse.com
Find my writing workshop at @mycelialwriters on IG
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Book 6 for my #SealeyChallenge was We Are Mermaids by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Loved this and will be teaching it in my writing workshop
The cover of We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt. Three mermaids with colorfully patterned tails float among sea creatures.
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#SealeyChallenge Day 5 is The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise.

Read Cy.’s collected BORG.DIEM at ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu...
A photo of the cover of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise. The author credited on the cover is Jillian Weise. You can see the photographer’s reflection in the glossy black cover and their thumb holding the book.
August 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social

I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.
The cover of Meltwater: Poems by Claire Wahmanholm. The cover is a photograph of the deep blue meltwater between two white glaciers. The water splits the cover.
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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My #SealeyChallenge Day 3 was Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter.

Shoutout to the Eugene Public Library and reminder that you can request your Sealey Challenge books from your local library!
The cover of Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter with a dried orange petal half-covering the Eugene Public Library barcode. The cover is an abstract blue, green, orange, and pink pattern that looks like oil on water.
August 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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For #SealeyChallenge day 2, I’m reading the brilliant Rose Zinnia’s Togethering.

Also, reminder to show your book to snails you encounter bc sometimes they will want to crawl all over the book and explore it for 15+ minutes & will leave you with little snail chomps out of the pages.
A photo of a snail stretching out its antenas and head to look at the three figures on the cover of Togethering by Rose Zinnia. The figures on the cover are braiding each others hair while looking at flowers. A photo of a snail stretching out its entire body to climb onto the cover of Togethering by Rose Zinnia. The figures on the cover are braiding each others hair while looking at flowers. The snail’s body is on the middle figure’s body. :: I’m feeling sexy & alive & embodied for the first time in my life. Sometimes I just weep, staring at my wrist, my shoulder, the breasts forming on my chest. To have been mostly dissociated from spirit for three decades. & then: to erupt into earth form. We’re never final. Complete in incompleteness. Bayo Akomolafe: “God is still being worked out. God is not just an essence, God is a becoming, God is a dying, God is a living. God is the animacy of a mushroom world. God is the weather. God is geology. […] I like to think about God in this way, as fugitive, as the crack in things that disciplined our attempts to name with any sense of finality.” We, dancing nonlinearly through time. This year of becoming flowers. An anaphoric loop: stung in order to bloom. From Togethering by Rose Zinnia
August 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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My first book for the #SealeyChallenge is The Trees Witness Everything by @victoriachang.bsky.social

What are you reading this month?
A photograph of Victoria Chang’s book The Trees Witness Everything with trees visible behind the book. Passage Every leaf that falls never stops falling. I once thought that leaves were leaves. Now I think they are feeling, in search of a place— someone’s hair, a park bench, a finger. Isn’t that like us, going from place to place, looking to be alive? -Victoria Chang
August 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Not quite moss, but dewdrops left in the trail of cottonwood seed fluff. If you look closely you can see the burrows and tunnel mouths of tiny insects (which I confirmed by sitting there until I watched both a spider and ant enter different burrows)
Cottonwood fluff on a sidewalk dotted with dewdrops
May 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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In love with these poems by my issue neighbor Lyd Havens in the newest issue of Grist 📚🪐
Lyd Havens Body, Aubade, Linen, Litany Published by Grist Sagittarius Rising Lyd Havens Conclusion of Sagittarius Rising by Lyd Havens
May 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Huge book mail day! I have poems in both of these collections 🥹😭🤩 I can’t wait to read everything

@rough-diamond1.bsky.social and Grist
May 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Loooove this poem by Mai Hindawi in @fastfleshlit.bsky.social
Poem titled unnameable creature by Mai Hindawi
April 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Some queer love poems for Valentines Day:

(Originally published by Blue Daisies Journal, @bullshitlit.bsky.social and @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social in the minison zine)

#lovepoems #writingcommunity
A screenshot of a poem called Hearth Touch A screenshot of a poem called In the Multiverse We Have Sex on a Sunday A poem called When We Didn’t Get to Choose Our Bodies
February 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Pretty sure I found evidence of squirrels running happy circles in the snow
February 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

By @adamgnade.bsky.social
A small, red chapbook with the title “The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big motherfuckin’ Sad” filling the cover and the author’s name, Adam Gnade, in the lower right corner.
February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Just for fun:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
February 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Excellent new piece from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

Words by Kara Lewis
Collages by Natalie Vestin
A screenshot of a poem and collage published by Paranoid Tree
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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@chenchenwrites.bsky.social’s “i love you to the moon &” catching the afternoon light in my apartment
January 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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My kale!!!
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This poem from Metamourphosis by @theoriginalison.bsky.social is so Boston coded
January 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This poem by @silicasun.bsky.social on endings and beginning and endings and beginnings.

Especially grateful right now for poems on rebirth.
January 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Starting the morning with an enby love poem by Cailín Frankland from @sfpoetry.bsky.social’s Eye to the Telescope
January 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The last stanza of this poem by M Frost just exactly gets it 🦌☠️🖤

Read the rest of the issue in
@sfpoetry.bsky.social Eye to the Telescope!
January 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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“we fall upward into the starless sky / wingless, breathless, eyes like shining lanterns / twin comets in the cosmic dark”

-darklight by Crystal Sidell in the newest issue of Eye to the Telescope by @sfpoetry.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Let’s see you at 21.

This was the first art that I publicly displayed that I was proud of.
A non-binary person stands on a tall stool next to a large charcoal drawing. The drawing consists of marks made by hands and feet. Next to the drawing, photos of charcoal covered hands, feet, arms, and legs are displayed on the wall
December 17, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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I’m not crying, you’re crying
Screenshot of a submissions page. Two submissions are labeled, “rejected” and a third is labeled, “rejected, but with some love”
December 17, 2024 at 8:48 PM