SarahJSloat

@sjane

Reluctant non-smoker Author of Hotel Almighty

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SarahJSloat@sjane· 4d

for #smallpoemsunday, Gertrude Stein's "Apple" and a collaged page of an apple-a-day calendar @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece please.

A little piece please. Cane again to the presupposed and ready eucalyptus tree, count out sherry and ripe plates and little corners of a kind of ham. This is use.

apple variety Erzherzogin Sophie, from an apple-a-day calendar, collaged

SarahJSloat@sjane· 4d

Even a landscape can make a gesture toward us.

old postcard with nine separate frames, collaged with aphorism.

SarahJSloat@sjane· 6d

Elise Cowen

The body is a humble thing
Made of death & water
The fashion is to dress it plain
And use the mind for border

SarahJSloat@sjane· 10d

o tight fold for #smallpoemsunday, an erasure using a page from Ali Smith's "The Accidental." @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

o tight fold
o sugar bowls,
that famous writers
Keep
All summer, the
worker bees throw the drone bees out
for usefulness is
queen

SarahJSloat@sjane· 18d

An erasure from ‘Classic Crimes’ for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

SarahJSloat@sjane· 18d

Eduardo Galeano, from 'The Book of Embraces'

On his deathbed, a man of the vineyards spoke into Marcela's ear. Before dying, he revealed his secret.
"The grape," he whispered, "is made of wine."
Marcela Perez-Silva told me this, and I thought: If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are.

SarahJSloat@sjane· 19d

if you see this quote pic yourself wearing sun glasses

SarahJSloat@sjane· 24d

What are you reading? I am deep into "Memed, My Hawk." Sad to admit I think it's the first novel I've read by a Turkish author. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #booksky

the cover of Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal

SarahJSloat@sjane· 24d

My Intention being to / proceed / thro' the / Coolness of / Silence and my Desire / being to / keep firm in my Endeavor / I contrived / a little Book in which / I rul'd an erasure from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

erasure of a book page using green pencil and circles punched from a book of flowers, with a small illustration of a male figure seated at lower right

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jul 2

the world's only living musical genius is loneliness in July,

erasure poem from a Dutch novella called "Sleepless Night," with collage using image from an old first-aid book, yellow transparent paper and a black paper bag with purple flowers

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 28

Federico García Lorca for #smallpoemsunday. I love those last three lines. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Balcony
Lola is singing saetas.
The little bullfighters
circle around her;
and the little barber,
from his doorway,
follows the rhythm
with his head.
Among the sweet basil
and mint,
Lola is singing
saetas.
That Lola,
who would look at herself
so much in the pool.

La Lola
canta saetas.
Los toreros
la rodean,
y el barberillo,
desde su puerta,
sigue los ritmos
con la cabeza.
Entre la albahaca
y la hierbabuena,
la Lola canta
saetas.
La Lola aquella,
que miraba
tanto en la alberca.

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 21

for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from "Hotel Almighty." @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Now I must rinse / off / The power / found / in a / shady corner of / the / Republic / that’s the name of the game now, / look around / there are lions behind … / and by-God lions ahead

erasure "cut-out" poem laid over a detail of an old map showing a hut surrounded by trees

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 21

Post one (1) photo you took of a painting. Sable Elyse Smith, "Coloring Book 63"

Sable Elyse Smith, Coloring Book 63
From MoMA: In 2015 she found a coloring book of activities meant to introduce children to the criminal court system. It included images of a metal detector, a jury box, and a smiling “Judge Friendly” character designed to soften the underlying trauma of standing trial. Smith filled the enlarged pages with brightly colored oil stick, obscuring and highlighting the original imagery. Scribbling outside the lines, Smith shows how these structures might be undermined, and creates an insurgent possibility for imagining freedom.

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 14

Short poem with a long title for #smallpoemsunday. I have used the last line of the poem on some of my collage postcards, too.

Lines written in a Japanese noodle shop watching a building be demolished

The world's a sorry business.
We sleep uneasily, and when we manage
we grind our teeth.
The slowest erosion begins inside out:
the plum and atom, the fossil,
the mammoth inner clamor.
The wrecking ball swings back around.
Plaster lands like a telegram
from another planet: I'll keep falling
until they knock me down.

Collage postcard with typewritten line: I'll keep falling till they knock me down

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 13

"I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist..." happy birthday to Fernando Pessoa.

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 12

current read

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 10

There's not much she doesn't know She spoke for ages one afternoon about kneeling

Erasure from Ali Smith's "The Accidental" with unwanted text whited out and a small snapshot of a dark-haired woman obscured by white flowers. I called this one "Lady Writer" because of the Dire Straits song that goes "just the way that her hair fell down around her face" and the song's subject of a very knowledgeable woman being interviewed, which is supposedly the writer Marina Warner, who wrote a book about the Virgin Mary and was doing TV interviews around the time the song was written.

SarahJSloat@sjane· Jun 6

stay in the country and resist daily

West German poster that says "Bleibe im Lande und wehre dich täglich" which is "stay in the country and resist/defend yourself daily"

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 31

Farid Matuk for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Of Mule and Deer

Out of a ton-cold, murmuring black wood….

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 28

8 pages to go

Bookmark lodged at p. 819 of an 827-page edition of "Underworld."

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 27

Faig Ahmed

hanging oriental carpet that appears to liquify and spill onto the floor

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 24

an visual poem for #smallpoemsunday (found in Walden) @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

impossible to tell which way leads to
perplexity
though like pilots
we go

-previously published in Fugue

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 24

Little rooster crowin' There must be something on his mind Little rooster crowin' There must be something on his mind Well, I feel just like that rooster Honey, ya treat me so unkind * Happy Bob Dylan's birthday, to those who celebrate.

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 17

a peculiar solemnity survived all its respective owners... a collage erasure from Classic Crimes for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

a peculiar solemnity
survived all its respective owners
eleven of whom
had no desire to grow up
the little martyrs
set out
slantwise through the lands

(collage erasure poem showing blue triangles shaped like pine trees and a child figure with an orange ball)

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 9

A garden of the flowers that appear in Swann's Way for #WorldCollageDay.

the flower names that appear in Swann's Way typed onto colored paper and collaged on the inner cover of a hardback book.

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 3

Today’s graffiti

Barcelona graffiti of trump crying black tears which could be oul could be plain old filth

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 1

May pussyfoots in, like these boots by Finnish artist Anni Rapinoja.

SarahJSloat@sjane· May 1

Saw a Matisse exhibition this past week that included this soothing blue piece, which made me think of the Ethel Rackin poem that hangs in my kitchen.

Matisse painting showing a sleeping woman on a blue bedspread.

Something it is
That is so blue
Like a hyacinth--so
So deliciously blue--
Or like Bluebeard--
Only in rain--
Under a canopy
In a canoe

(Ethel Rackin)

SarahJSloat@sjane· Apr 26

Russell Edson

A chair has waited such a long time to be with its person…

SarahJSloat@sjane· Apr 26

for #smallpoemsunday, a box-collage poem @tomsnarsky.bsky.social