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Closing out #thesealeychallenge with Don't Call Us Dead by @danez_smif!

31/31: CRYING DRESS by Cassidy McFadzean (2024 House of Anansi Press) https://tinyurl.com/yc5ahtuh

"You comfort and calm me

A landscape like Iceland

The sound flowers make:

their tiny roots amplified"

New Bucolics

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Poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean (House of Anansi Press) sits on a purple desktop with a notebook with an ornate gold cover, a black pen and a paper bag from The Printed Word bookshop

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Animal Fancy" from the poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean - the book is held open with shiny metal office desk accoutrements (tape dispenser and stapler), and an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook page

30/31: DAYLIGHT by Roya Marsh (2020 MCD x FSG Originals @fsgbooks https://tinyurl.com/yrvkzbvz

"results say i’m hers

in history

in old law

in old English

say her great greats

owned my greatest

on this soil.

“wow,” she say

and i hold my tongue. tight. between molars.

’til it bloody and useless"

in broad daylight black girls look ghost

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Audiobook of the poetry collection dayliGht by Roya Marsh (MCD x FSG Originals) on a computer screen, showing the cover artwork of a defiant young girl assembled from assorted collage images, along with the audio controls

29/31: FO/UR by Jo Ianni (2023 Ex-Puritan / 2024 Apt 9 Press) https://tinyurl.com/4huw8nac

"be
am"

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Special edition poetry chapbook FO/UR by Jo Ianni (Apt 9 Press) sits atop a colourful crocheted afghan

Special edition poetry chapbook FO/UR by Jo Ianni (Apt 9 Press) sits atop a colourful crocheted afghan, open to an interior page (be/am)

Special edition poetry chapbook FO/UR by Jo Ianni (Apt 9 Press) sits atop a colourful crocheted afghan, showing back/copyright/etc page

28/31: NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe

"God bless it all, the whir, a sound like
promises and winter,

through Sherbourne and Castle Frank;
rarely are you this far east.

End of the day and you still love him,
him and his *fucking blue eyes.*"

Ode on the Afternoon

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Poetry collection No Meeting Without Body by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press), opened to the poem "Ode on the Afternoon", with colourful post-it notes protruding from the book, is held up against the wall of Toronto's Castle Frank subway station (which is mentioned in the poem)

27/31: CREELAND by Dallas Hunt (2021 Nightwood Editions) https://bit.ly/33tr1D3

"next time, i will dance with
you, Raymond, and we
will stomp our boots so
hard we'll create sparks that
rise to the heavens, that
call forth clouds and yellow
thunder"

Dancing Yellow Thunder

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Handwritten transcription of the poem "Woman Making Tea" from the poetry collection Creeland by Dallas Hunt, with the poetry collection held open with a slate coaster, and an uncapped black pen and a sunflower petal resting on the notebook page

Close-up of a handwritten transcription of the poem "Woman Making Tea" from the poetry collection Creeland by Dallas Huntc

Poetry collection Creeland by Dallas Hunt (Nightwood Editions) sits on a sun-streaked dining room table with a notebook with an ornate cover, a black pen, coffee in a blue cup and a vase of slightly wilted sunflowers

@anikeaten #TheSealeyChallenge sure makes the month of August go quickly, doesn't it?

26/31: THE LIFE OF TU FU by Eliot Weinberger (2024 New Directions) https://tinyurl.com/54vk9cm6

"Here the men sit and the women stand; the men stay home and the women climb the mountains, collecting firewood.

The landscape is beautiful, the weather terrible, and they call their temple Taking Poison."

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Poetry work The Life of Tu Fu by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions) sits on the edge of a wooden planter box of kale. My green shoes are also visible.

"The taste of your skin is an almanac."

#SundaySentence (+ #TodaysPoem & #TheSealeyChallenge!)
from Your tongue is as long as a Tuesday by Jay Besemer (knife | fork | book) https://tinyurl.com/59xfw7bw

25/31: DARWIN'S BEES AT NOTRE DAME by Kim Fahner (2019) https://tinyurl.com/yvrk56t9

"and then, hopeful and persistent,
two hundred thousand tiny honey bees,
all gossamer wings, all wonder -
new sparks rising."

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A limited edition (6/27) printing of the poem "Darwin's Bees at Notre Dame" by Kim Fahner is propped up against a vase of slightly droopy but bright sunflowers.

24/31: I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY by Michael Flatt (2023 knife | fork | book) https://tinyurl.com/yc85trtb

"If a dog barking was once the loudest sound a person would hear, then let the exponential intensification of prosthesis be indicated by its howl."

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Poetry collection I Can Focus If I Try by Michael Flatt (knife | fork | book) sits in my lap. My legs stretch out, my feet are shod in aqua and neon orange socks. Afternoon light stretches across the rug.

23/31: VIRGIN by Analicia Sotelo (2018 Milkweed Editions) https://tinyurl.com/3m6kfaez

"I hate how everyone is either a tiny black horse or a big fat gnat, sans fucking purpose."

Philosopher King

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Poetry collection Virgin by Analicia Sotelo (Milkweed Books), with a striking Venus-like figure on the cover, sits on a wooden table in the morning light

22/31: THE ALBERTINE WORKOUT by Anne Carson (2014 New Directions) https://tinyurl.com/d98h7d3z

"Nouns name the world, adjectives let you get hold of the name and keep it from flying all over your mind like a pre-Socratic explanation of the cosmos."

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I'm holding the poetry pamphlet The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson (New Directions), and Airedale terrier Mavis is looking on ...

21/31: PINHOLE POETRY VOLUME TWO SELECTED edited by Erin Bedford (2024 Pinhole Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/bdzf56ax

"Oh, Sunday evenings: slabs of silence, loops of gloom; maybe
in lieu of this only happening to me, we could stare together
at the mute moon, channel the focused burn of the extraordinary?"

Oh, Sunday Evenings by Heather Birrell

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The poetry collection/chapbook Pinhole Poetry Volume Two Selected sits on a colourful quilt.

The poetry collection/chapbook Pinhole Poetry Volume Two Selected sits on a colourful quilt, open to a selected poem.

20/31: YOUR TONGUE IS AS LONG AS A TUESDAY by Jay Besemer (2023 knife | fork | book) https://tinyurl.com/59xfw7bw

"Everyone's boots want to find your doorstep. Yours grow filthier by the moment. You've come home."

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Handwritten excerpt from the poetry collection Your tongue is as long as a Tuesday by Jay Besemer

Poetry collection Your tongue is as long as a Tuesday by Jay Besemer (knife | fork | book), is splayed open to show the front and back covers, sitting next to a notebook with an ornate gold cover, with a black pen sitting on the notebook, too

19/31: SIREN by Kateri Lanthier (2017 Véhicule Press) https://tinyurl.com/2rscrkrc

"All the cries of the world! Something to sell, swallow, sorrow.
Your uncontrolled kindness
Rains on the void."

Guanyin Lamp

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Poetry collection Siren by Kateri Lanthier, open to haiku selections, with my feet shod in green pumps in the background.

18/31: APPLES AND ROSES by Frances Boyle (2019 above/ground press) https://tinyurl.com/5e2x8mjh

"This is not a time machine

this is our life and the spin of the wheels is a wending wash of the long
distant road of brick and time and the way the sound catches the screen door,

sings itself to morning, brings the light and 30 seconds to sing a life"

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