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Thad DeVassie
@thaddevassie.bsky.social
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writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | THIS SIDE OF UTOPIA out now | 2020 James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025

Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
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SOLMAZ SHARIF

This poem appears in her exceptional debut LOOK (2016) from @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Note to self

(and an excuse to love on M. Sasek's illustrated travel books)
Page from "This Is Rome" by Miroslav Sesek, showing an illustration of a reluctant young boy sticking his hand into the "Mouth of Truth" monument resembling a moon-like character with a human face, which legend says will "bite your hand off!" if you're telling a lie. The collaged words in the upper left side say "take joyful risks again" with the word joyful having a strikethough line across it
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Sometimes even the light can be too much, a bit of a beautiful showoff
Rays of light coming across a porcelain white sink basin and though a green glass soap dispenser, with shadows dancing on the wall and sink.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Donna Vorreyer via Tiny Wren Lit

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November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This or dark-alley whispers.
I chose this.

// RURAL NOCTURNE //
RURAL NOCTURNE - post-sunset view of a blue-brown sky, hedgerow of trees with darkened crops in foreground, and distant rural light -- maybe a house or a light-night combine finishing up.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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how to feel lonely in a room full of people
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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NEW LISTING --> RESTAGED
Same photo as above with hospita wristband obscuring the house with the text Sky For Sale / Clouds Included on the band. For sale sign remains visible in the yard.
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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// NEW LISTING //

photo/collage
photo of a yellow ranch house on a cold winter day with blue sky and white clouds and a for sale sign in the yard, with added text overlay "sky for sale, clouds included, ranch in foreground"
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Tuesday morning
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday here's one of my own.
Cheers to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and small poems.
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I owe a lot to my friend Tim Suermondt for keeping me going in the dark, lonely years of writing. This is from "Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets"

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October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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some recent small-scale landscapes on paper.

what's your favorite?
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Basho
Tr. by David Young

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October 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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// VIOLET NIGHT //
acyrlic on canvas (2020)
Angled roofline bookended by trees and a backdrop of a violet-colored sky and crescent moon. Window of the house illumuniates a room.
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Some days "progress" is a just base coat or one good line of text.

It's prep for what's to come, when it comes.

Go easy on yourself.
A wood panel painted solid orange on a desk.
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
acrylic on paper
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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BEFORE SUNRISE, LOCARNO BEACH
acrylic on canvas
landscape painting of locarno beach before sunrise with Vancouver's city lights in the background and reflection on water
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Two new micros up at @talking-time.bsky.social

See them both at talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/thad...

Gelatin Duck 👇
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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// Rural Geometry //

acrylic on paper
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Caroline Bird

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September 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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// A Nostalgia We Have Never Known //
acrylic on paper
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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repurposing artwork to album / EP / or single covers
radiohead - how to disappear completely; based on original artwork "Escape Hatches" with two sky hatches atop a tree-lined neigborhood and grassy expanse
September 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Sarah J. Sloat

from Hotel Almighty

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Blackout poem & collage by Sarah J. Sloat from her book Hotel Almighty, using Stephen King's Misery as the source text: a long moment / could / weigh as much as fifty pounds / no alloys, no plastics... / no / trouble / once you got the hang of it / Includes to comedy hands and circular dot atop a blue-green blackout of text except foe the aforementioned words circled and connected by black lines
September 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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fire maps, photos, poetry, paint + ink

"And All Along the Way There Have Been Flowers" (2022)
collage of western state fire maps, photography of well-dressed gentleman, written text containing the title of the work "And All Along the Way There Have Been Flowers" hand-tinted and painted.
September 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM