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docsigerson.bsky.social
Essayist, poet, fictioneer, editor, & translator.
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Check out The Literary Underground! Submissions open! theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/03... #poetry #poet #literaryunderground

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Check out GAS: Poetry,Art and Music! Submissions open! #poetry #art #music gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com

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"do not bury your grief / it is not dead / it is bone & fiber & blood & guts / it will turn / you inside out, even if you try not to let it / this is how you keep the dead alive / conjure them into the spaces around you / resurrect them, make them spirit, ghost / get haunted like that, my friends"

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happy Saturday. fresh new poem up from Westley Heine! theliteraryunderground.org

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"It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity." ~ Montaigne

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"People use language for two reasons: to be understood and not to be understood." ~ Dean Young

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Psst submissions are now open.

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"Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country! What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable!"

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GAS Featured Poet this Week is Michael Lee Johnson: gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/01/gas-...

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"I not only burn my candle at both ends: I send off pyrotechnical displays from my behind." ~ Theordore Roethke (Notebooks)

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"A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle." ~ Charles Baudelaire

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I'm surprised to be still alive in 2025. My calculations must have been off a bit.

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If I have not been here in a few days it's because I forgot this place existed.

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"I am in the dark to all the world, and my nearest friends behold me but in a cloud." ~ Thomas Browne

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"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged." ~ Justine by Lawrence Durrell

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Clarice Lispector. If you don't know her work, make a resolution to get familiar.

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Presenting OKD's Best Microfiction nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

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"Food, warmth, sleep, and a book; these are all I at present ask – the ultima thule of my wandering desires." Wm. Hazlitt

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From FACEBOOK MEMORY: "I'm gonna pop you!" he said, pointing his Glock at me. His buddy was standing between us, but to be on the safe side I moved to directly behind his car so he could not have a clear field of fire. (at 0235 on 12-02-2023)

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I'm over the moon that my flash "After" won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE. @nffr.bsky.social Incredibly grateful to judge Nathan Leslie @nathan72.bsky.social, Valerie Fox, and @megpokrass.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/after-by-cla... #flash #Flashlit #Flashfiction

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The Washington State Patrol has issued an AMBER ALERT for Doc Sigerson's mojo, last seen being lured into a white late-model Lexus by an immaculately coiffed older woman, possibly a "cougar".

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I traded the family milk cow for a handful of magical beans. I'm a natural born genius.

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"The world's God is treacherous and full of unreason: a torturer, but also the only foundation and the only fountain." ~ Robinson Jeffers

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The only true test of intelligence must be ethical behavior.

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