Anna Cza

Veronica doing improv comedy.

Necessary reading

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Would an “omelette explainer” be abbreviated to “eggsplainer”? Asking for an amphibrachic meter

I like this glorious list poem from Martin Stannard’s forthcoming Collected Poems.

The Irish goddess Brigid surrounded by children of all ages and other goddesses in a 1917 illustration by John Duncan. They are in a garden most presumably.

We each spoke a spell of stone
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.

Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?

Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa

#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem

Helicopter rudely waking sleeping civilian in the 5 AM hour (Oura ring data)

Yes! On my one day to sleep in 😩

are they not monsters?

you don't own a poem; if you're lucky, you can catch one, like a firefly, a cold. it's an act of fixed transience. the words in print don't change. you do.

Fleet Foxes - Angel In The Snow (from the “Oh. What. Fun.” Soundtrack) YouTube video by Fleet Foxes

nothing will fix the dying world, but I’m hoping this Elliot Smith cover will help the new one be born

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

now I can’t believe—
that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there

Three kings in a bed inside an illuminated letter e, greeted by a golden angel and surrounded by a blue border.

Someone once said "Happy Throuple Day!" and I can't unsee it.

Blessings to all who celebrate.

Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v.

#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes

Stunning

Image of two figures in robes standing on a frozen lake or seabed, with other figures trapped in the ice

William Blake's depiction of the Circle of Traitors in Hell from Dante's Inferno, 1827 www.artic.edu/artworks/233...

Sometimes I open a new poetry manuscript and Adobe asks me if I’d like an “AI” summary of the document.

I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.

Come, Revealer of the hero-path.
We shall no longer cast thee away.
May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy.

#Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo
trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta

#GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem

“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That Time will come and take my love away.”

…but blessèd New Year, one and all!
🫖 🪩 📖

#Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky

anne arundell, a lady in a big dress and a pearl choker with a black background

synaloepha: the merging of two syllables into one

Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían.
[The hair that endarkened the gold.]

-Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536

Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time

#hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky

Arnold Nechansky - Krampus Card - The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Hanging up all the season's #Krampusnacht cards on the wall.

"Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack,
Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart

🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤
#poetry #poetrysky
rattle.com/krampusnacht...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Do we all agree that there's an implicit badass ranking amongst letters? And that these are remarkably similar across alphabet systems?

Roman
1. Z
2. X
3. Q

Arabic
1. ق
2. ظ
3. ك

Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay

#alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry

I will be replying to many emails with this from now on

Whole poem: read it! #palinode

missourireview.com/george-abrah...

palinode: i take it back!

Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to
impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar,
& here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for –
when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen
- @intifadabatata.bsky.social

#anamorphosis in poetry? a matter of looking

To'our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.

-The Ecstasy, J. Donne

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.

Invite From mystical blood and life we imbibe. Long live libation of the sap which spouts a secret, invisible.

happy #smallpoemsunday

this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth!

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Wax and Gold and Gold by Mihret Sibhat August 3, 2023 – “‘Remember the prostitute I was ministering to?’ I said.”

Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go.
#Ethiopian proverb

sem-ena-werq
#Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...

rays of knots arranged like a sun, keeping the records of humanity

quipu / khipu : knot-writing, record keeping by knots

#inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky

Larco Museum, Lima, Peru

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...

Cover of Close Reading for the TwentyFfirst Century

Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

Waiting for this to show up in one of those “If you can identify these people, you’re as old as the hills!” buzzfeed clickbait quizzes.

#IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks

As the clocks turn again, the old debate rears its stubborn head:

Should we abolish time?

#daylightsavings