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Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, EcoTheo, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
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Did I, just now—in a fit of overexuberance, mayhaps—submit it to a major journal? Oh you bet your sweet bippy.

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Sometimes a poem takes barely more time to complete than to type it the first time. Sometimes it takes more than a decade! I’ve just had the latter experience. I think I’ve finally cracked it.

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7yo me: Will there be flying cars and the rainforests will all be saved? 46yo me: No no no no no no. Someone will earnestly write the sentence “Grok why do you lie about catturd2?” and you will be cursed with understanding the context.

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I need some of those weeble-shaped citronella candles with the white netting.

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JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.

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Yesterday in and above the trees.

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I made vegan “fried chicken” for sandwiches using tofu and they came out pretty good but a slab of tofu between two buns is really, really heavy.

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Immature AI steals: mature AI also steals. — T.S. AI-liot

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The long ‘s’ strikes again! 🫶

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this chonky beautiful anvil of a birb 🥹🪶

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Do I dare to eat a peach?* *drink another spicy pickle beer

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These are your words of the week Juneteenth discrimination antifa existential comptroller nurdle irenic www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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Youngest took this of me while I was unawares, probably dreaming about pickle beer and lady slippers

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I regret nothing

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Painted turtle, Quechee, VT

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What a looooooooong strange trip it’s been.

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saw some flowers today (showy lady slippers)

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WAAAAASSAAAAAAAAP

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Terror Twilight is good, actually

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Here's one of many Indigo Buntings that I saw along the roadsides adjacent to farm fields near our camp #birds #birding #indigobunting #Algoma #NorthernOntario

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June 14, 1865 We see by the papers that the President in A speech intimates Colinization for the colard people of the United States. This move of his must and shall be resisted. We were born under the Flag of the Union and we never will know no other. — William Benjamin Gould 1/

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made a friend 🪶🥹🥹

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I remember my dad coming home from work with Topps Desert Storm trading cards.

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Let me just say we have found some very large spiders in our house lately. Large. Assisted them in not being inside our house any longer and Bisou has only crushed one with her nose trying to make a new friend. Here she is enjoying our picnic table.

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The way this one POV character is currently spiraling into conspiracy theories to justify the acts of colonist violence and genocide he wants to commit but feels institutionally constrained from (at the moment) is pretty heavy reading right now.

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The new Fruit Bats single is quiet and spare and heartbreaky, for those into such things 🥹🥹🥹

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—NOW!

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