Kate Beall

@katebbeall

Writer, baker, candlestick maker (?), / All of me out to sea | Words in Feral, HAD, and elsewhere | she/her

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Kate Beall@katebbeall· 13d

Colorado Pizza Kitchen

2 pizzas awaiting their turn on the gas grill. The chef is drinking a 4 Noses IPA.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· 20d

Wire Cubemother 😢

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jul 6

billionaires and their fences are an illness

Northern leopard frog, American marten, Gunnison's prairie dog, little brown bat, northern pocket gopher, snowshoe hare, southern red-backed vole, white-tailed jackrabbit, bald eagle, band-tailed pigeon, black rosy-finch, boreal owl, Brewer's sparrow, brown-capped rosy-finch, burrowing owl, flammulated owl, golden eagle, greater sandhill crane, juniper titmouse, lazuli bunting, Lewis's woodpecker, northern harrier, olive-sided flycatcher, pinyon jay, prairie falcon, rufous hummingbird, short-eared owl, Swainson's hawk, Virginia's warbler, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, elk, mule deer, Canada lynx and silverspot butterfly.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jul 6

how i picture him

Wikipedia, Dik-dik

For the pop group, see Dik Dik.
The dik-diks are four species of small antelope in the genus Madoqua, all of which live in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa.[1]

Dik-dik
A male Kirk's dik-dik at Etosha National Park, Namibia

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jul 1

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)

it," he replied. "Perhaps some one belonging to you might have been there. I forgot you were an Englishman."
"You can go on," said my lord. "No one belonging to me was there. You forgot you were an Englishman, too."
"Oh! no," said Cedric quickly. "I'm an American!"
"You are an Englishman," said the Earl grimly.
"Your father was an Englishman."
It amused him a little to say this, but it did not amuse Cedric. The lad had never thought of such a development as this. He felt himself grow quite hot up to the roots of his hair.
"I was born in America," he protested. "You have to be an American if you are born in America. I beg your pardon," with serious politeness and delicacy, "for contradicting you. Mr. Hobbs told me if there were another war, you know, I should have to—to be an American.”
The Earl gave a grim half laugh—it was short and grim, but it was a laugh.
"You would, would you?" he said.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 24

ohh it’s a good library hold day @chanda.blacksky.app @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social

HOLDS

Held

The edge of space-time : particles, poetry, and the cosmic dream boogie

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, author.
[Redacted] Library - In Library
by: 6/27/2026

Cloudwatcher
Bazzett, Michael, author.
[Redacted] Library - In Library
by: 6/26/2026

The bronze arms : poems
Hofmann, Richie, 1987- author.
[Redacted] Library - In Library
by: 6/26/2026

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 13

I clearly did it wrong—I threw our old copier a retirement party and baked it a sheet cake. We shared an office and amiably tolerated one another’s (not inconsiderable) flaws

A sheet cake, iced to look (roughly, I’m not much of a cake artist) like a sheet of printed paper, reading “Farewell iR3570,” sits atop the open bed of a copier.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 11

Golden (Hour) Grills

Flanken-cut short ribs on the grill. The light is really nice.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 10

Dirtbag Farm is looking good this year. Shoutout to the local Habitat ReStore for the cucumber trellis (you may know her as Busted Rickety Ladder)

Corrugated metal bed of infant cucumbers. Chainlink fencing to keep the critters out. Haphazard hail cloth. Wooden ladder planted as trellis. Busted fence backdrop.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 4

good job everyone, the peach-ricotta bars behaved

Peach-Ricotta Bars; a couple are missing.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 3

INDEED!

A mediocre photo of a delicious cookie bar.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jun 3

everybody tell the peach ricotta experiment bars to behave nicely in the oven OR ELSE

A square pan with ricotta cheesecake-ish filling, lashed with apricot jam, mosaicked with peach slices, ready to go in the oven.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· May 24

pelicans, carp, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, dragonflies, bullock’s oriole, painted turtles, snapping turtles, great blue heron, western tanager, six-lined race runners, wood ducks, osprey, cedar waxwings, bumblebees, northern house wrens, yellow warblers, red-tailed hawk

A six-lined racerunner lizard (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus) on a gravel path. It is slim and long, with bold dark lines running from nose to tail over an iridescent gradient of hues from green to pink.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· May 19

image with alt text added

D. Requested Relief

a) A formal finding that Governor Jared Polis engaged in "conduct detrimental to the interests of the Colorado Democratic Party"

b) Formal censure and condemnation of Governor Polis' clemency decision regarding Tina
Peters

c) Consideration of appropriate temporary organizational sanctions, including suspension from participation as an honored guest, featured speaker, or officially recognized participant at Colorado Democratic Party-sponsored events and functions, including but not limited to the Obama Gala and DemFest, for a period deemed appropriate under Party rules and procedures.

d) A public reaffirmation of the Colorado Democratic Party's commitment to election integrity, democratic institutions, and the protection of election workers from harassment and disinformation

e) A formal statement clarifying that the clemency decision does not reflect the values or institutional positions of the Colorado Democratic Party

Kate Beall@katebbeall· May 3

from Kick the Latch, Kathryn Scanlan

ENOUGH

The backside is a little city. You flash your track license at the guard shack to get in. There's an ambulance on the grounds during training hours because people are always getting hurt. Feed dealers sell sawdust, straw, oats, beet pulp, bran, good hay.
Tack wagons stock bandages, saddles, medication, leg paints, sweats, freezes, bowie clay, sheet cotton, vet wrap. You live at the track, your life is full. You don't have time to go shopping at the mall. You lose touch with the outside. Things change. You don't hear about world news unless something major happens, because you're in your own world and you have enough news.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Apr 11

Mariette Navarro wrote this novel. Different kind of ship though

Book cover of Mariette Navarro's novel Ultramarine, translated from the French by Eve Hill-Agnus.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Apr 7

I make this recipe, from Leah Koenig's big Phaidon compendium, The Jewish Cookbook. The chestnuts are so good! I reduce the cinnamon/dried fruit & add all the chestnuts from a precooked bag (150g?). Unclear if there's any actual brisket left? But come pile some briskety leeks on matzoh!

ITALIAN CHAROSET

There are multiple versions of Italian charoset, but most include roasted chestnuts—an addition that gives the sweet spread a distinctly earthy flavor.

Serves: 8
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes

3/4 c (110 g) roasted, peeled chestnuts, finely chopped
2 large apples, peeled and finely chopped
1 cup (170 g) Medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped
1 cup (140 g) golden raisins (sultanas)
1 cup (240 ml/8 fl oz) sweet red wine or grape juice
1/4 cup (60 ml/2 fl oz) orange juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup (50 g) walnuts, finely chopped
1-2 tablespoons honey (optional)

In a medium saucepan, combine the chestnuts, apples, dates, raisins, wine, orange juice, and cinnamon and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the fruit is very tender and most of the liquid has evaporated, about 15 minutes. If the mixture still looks wet, uncover and continue simmering for another 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool.

Transfer to a serving bowl and stir in walnuts. Taste and, if desired, add 1-2 tablespoons honey to sweeten. Cover and refrigerate until needed, or up to 3 days. Allow mixture to come to room temperature before serving.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Apr 4

Soooo goooood— (a) Celery-heavy brisket with caramelized lemon & leeks, garnished with celery leaves and parsley

Celery-y, leek-y, lemon-y brisket garnished with parsley and celery leaves.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Mar 30

"15) Years and years of this."

Curriculum Vitae
Lisel Mueller
1924 –2020

1992

1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.

2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into
confetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of
course I do not remember this.

3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The
world I lived in had a soft voice and no claws.

4) A cornucopia filled with treats took me into a building
with bells. A wide-bosomed teacher took me in.

5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones
and primrose marshes, a short train ride away.

7) My country was struck by history more deadly than
earthquakes or hurricanes.

8) My father was busy eluding the monsters. My mother
told me the walls had ears. I learned the burden of secrets.

9) I moved into the too bright days, the too dark nights
of adolescence.

10) Two parents, two daughters, we followed the sun
and the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed
behind in darkness.

11) In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually
I caught up with them.

12) When I met you, the new language became the language
of love.

13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry.
The daughter became a mother of daughters.

14) Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it. Knots tying
threads to everywhere. The past pushed away, the future left
unimagined for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate
present.

15) Years and years of this.

16) The children no longer children. An old man’s pain, an
old man’s loneliness.

17) And then my father too disappeared.

18) I tried to go home again. I stood at the door to my
childhood, but it was closed to the public.

19) One day, on a crowded elevator, everyone’s face was younger
than mine.

20) So far, so good. The brilliant days and nights are
breathless in their hurry. We follow, you and I.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Mar 28

fascism is not healthy for children and other living things

My interpretation of Lorraine Schneider’s 1967 print, “Primer”: Yellow background, a basic flower in black and orange with the words “war is not healthy for children and other living things.”

A version of Schneider’s Primer, with a mauve-ish centered flower and the words “ICE is not healthy for children and other living things”

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Mar 25

wishing you softness and ease

Small gay tabby, curled up sleeping so hard with a hand over her eye, leg and tail dangling down from the back of an armchair.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Mar 5

sure I’m at #AWP26 Afield Watching Porcupines so weird I didn’t see you there, must’ve just missed you #NotAtAWP26

Porcupine snugged into the broken limb of a bare cottonwood.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Mar 3

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Feb 9

www.wasquarterly.com/words/winnin...

[Header: Words & Sports]

WINNING CHANGES EVERYTHING
Kate Beall

a cento, after the commentary of Rich Waltz and Aaron Taylor
(Commander-in-Chief Trophy games, Air Force-Navy and Air Force-Army, 2022)

Early sledding. The straw
that stirs this drink. Tough
sledding. The shortest distance

between two points is a head
start. That's
that's

that's a heavy
piece. Now he's
a big load
of laundry.

That's a heavy piece. Yes
it is

in more ways than one.

If you live
by penetration
you die by
penetration.

Play-makers
help me out with the math here
make the plays
there's a whole lotta eights and sixes
in there,
running
around with their
hair on fire. Winning

changes everything. A good
bloodline. He's the straw.
A heavy piece.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 31

Has anyone done a full Maurice Sendak “Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months” parody for our times yet? I think of the book every time I hear this chant and it warms me double.

JANUARY

In January
it's so nice
while slipping
on the sliding ice
to sip hot chicken soup
with rice.
Sipping once
sipping twice
sipping chicken soup
with rice.

Illustration of a small figure ice skating on a frozen pond while tipping steaming soup from a bowl into their open mouth.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 27

Paulo Leminski

BEM NO FUNDO
no fundo, no fundo,
bem lá no fundo,
a gente gostaria
de ver nossos problemas
resolvidos por decreto

a partir desta data,
aquela mágoa sem remédio
é considerada nula
e sobre ela
silêncio perpétuo

extinto por lei todo o remorso,
maldito seja quem olhar pra trás,
lá pra trás não há nada,
e nada mais

mas problemas não se resolvem,
problemas têm família grande,
e aos domingos saem todos passear
o problema, sua senhora
e outros pequenos probleminhas

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 18

case in point

372

I know lives, I could miss
Without a Misery —
Others — whose instant's wanting —
Would be Eternity —

The last — a scanty Number —
"Twould scarcely fill a Two —
The first — a Gnat's Horizon
Could easily outgrow —

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 12

“This brokenness we must get used to.” Su Shi (1037-1101), translated by Shangyang Fang in STUDY OF SORROW #SmallPoemSunday

水调歌头
苏轼
明月几时有？把酒问青天。不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年。
我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒。
起舞弄清影，何似在人间。
转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？
人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。

To the Tune "Shui Diao Ge Tou: Song of Water"
SU SHI

Since when has the moon been up there?
Lifting my wine cup, I ask the sky. What season is it for the immortals in the palace of clouds?
I would ride up there on the horses of gale, but I fear
the winter in the transparent palaces made of crystal and onyx would erase my shadow. I dance with my shadow and know it is still good to be in this world. Curving past the crimson chamber,
the moon hangs low in the window to be with
the sleepless travelers. The moon shouldn't detest us mortals, but why is it always beautiful when men part?
How we never get used to the joy in meetings, fear
parting, toyed with by the moon's wax and wane.
This brokenness we must get used to. Friend, I wish you a long life from a thousand miles away.
Night after night, a moon hangs up in two windows.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 7

I love (genuinely) for an author to make the rhetorical space for themselves to express three versions of an idea in a row

In Rosa's sertão, things frequently appear to be or turn out to be quite different from what they ought to be—or, more precisely, one comes to see that things are not as one thought they must be. Or, to try once more to get to the heart of the matter, one discovers that the world is not as one had seemed obligated to think that it had to be.

Kate Beall@katebbeall· Jan 7

dropping bars in the academic journal ❤️‍🔥