Our neighborhood cat named Pixel is raising her kittens in our empty chicken coop and we installed a camera so we can watch Lorna, Bo and Taj in all their shrewd antics. #vss365 #shrewd

Come with me Beyond the garden gate To where the sun shines Late upon the water And egret and ibis Wade together In the littlest place Where there is a heaven That still waits for us. #vss365 #garden

Opposite of evil: Dog #vss365 #evil #dogsofBluesky

What spirits are here In the land of Catawba, Cherokee and Congaree, Surviving under southern Sky. Blessings of Selu Standing by, Corn Mother Sprouting, blossoming, Feeding the people Since time immemorial And always in the future If we remember beyond The official stories and lies. #vss365 #sprout

Walking with my dog Thinking about trauma How it’s all collective - self other race class gender ethnicity developmental national historical environmental - I look up on the power line Go home and write, Says the divine. #vss365 #divine

Maybe all the millennia Men spent silencing Women was because Our fertile ground Was not only within And meant for children But without and around Our bodies so skilled At stepping one foot After another until we Get the damn thing done. #vss365 #fertile

Growth Goes Up From Chaos And Loss #vss365 #chaos

This year’s wedding anniversary present to my wife was a handmade candle holder shaped like beaver carvings and then one month later a friend gave us blueberries from the fruit of her family’s labor and all is sweet and summer is not yet over. #vss365 #fruit

I haven’t done #vss365 In a while Because summer And her wiles. But I’m back And so are the tadpoles. This year, the tree frogs Knew just where to go Because evolution And what she knows. But still we must #tend So life can grow.

Happy birthday to my beautiful and brilliant Leo wife!

I was so moved by the presence and participation of all the people in today’s class - from South Carolina and Minnesota, California, Washington, Arizona and more - thank you to @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social in Minneapolis - and looking forward to the two-part, in-person class in September! 💜💗💜

In 2 weeks: #Writing #Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism | 3 hr online class hosted by @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social Taught by award-winning #poet & #trauma scholar @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social #poets #resist #ICE #Minnesota #resilience #writingcommunity 🦋Please share🦋 loft.org/classes/writ...

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One bright bloom is mine The other is my wife’s We planted them to honor The cessation of our cycles But not the ending of life Aging is florid and full of light #vss365 #florid

SCOTUS today Slaughtered us. The separation of Powers - shared With the Founding Fathers by the Iroquois And Five Civilized Tribes after the first Settlers arrived - It’s lying now like Carrion on the roadside As the Trump regime Guns the gas and Drives over it - and us #vss365 #carrion #SCOTUS

I’ve been reading this and think you’d love it!

This is today and I am SO ready! Thank you to the @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social once again for the opportunity! 💙💗💙

Here I am last evening at an event celebrating the publication of Old Growth: An Anthology Inspired by Congaree National Park, 100% of the proceeds of which support this historically significant UNESCO-designated biosphere region. As writers, every grain makes a difference. 🔗 👇🏽 #vss365 #grain

The World Cup is great (After four years’ wait) Amiri is certainly first rate (He opens the goal floodgate) My wife and I will congratulate (Mainz was her birthplace) Kömmerling pays team freight (But we will never defenestrate) When Germany earns gold weight #vss365 #defenestrate

A bunch of flowers said Yes To Sun and then some Bees said Let me dance on That and there was a Drum and Sun danced, Too, and we had a sweet Time on this longest day Of light, a party of yellow In a bright, happy batch of Petals, pride, and sun. Honey, I love love love you. #vss365 #batch #solstice

Hey Madame Bovary, Here’s a cabin-riding Mic drop for thee: Undo the clench in your Jaw instead of opening Your French undies. Novels need a fiend. But women in the past 170 Could use a friend. By which I mean, use your Words. Égalité. Sorority. Say it plain. #vss365 #Undo #Clench #Novel #Fiend

Join me for poeTRYhealing next Saturday with @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social to learn how #poetry can help us #heal and shift to healthier ways of life individually and collectively. #writing #healing #trauma #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writingprompt www.cassiepremosteele.com/teaching.html

At the end Of all Our consuming That sends The earth fuming Flooding and dooming When we are lying In final quietus May our bodies Become one With the source Of every gift That our minds While living Kept distant From us #vss365 #Distant #Gift #Quietus #Consuming

Everybody Was a Baby Just before dawn A mother walks To the cradle Horror dreams Still echoing within Yet skin enables Soft touch near Her hands here No deadfall trap Helping arms and lap To keep forbidden fears From coming back #vss365 #Forbidden #Mother #Dawn #Deadfall #Horror #Cradle

We’re here. We’re queer. We voted. #primary #votingday #SouthCarolina

The thing they don’t say About immigrant families Who speak more than one Language in the home is that Laughter becomes the score & Joy the backbeat evermore #ves365 #evermore

At the time of night some insomniacs are just falling asleep - 3:15 most days - which is for me the morning - I sit down on a couch with a candle and an essential oil lamp glowing rainbows - my writing buddy Lenny Bruce next to me - and from my hand and his paw - we create beauty. #vss365 #falling

It’s a mystery The way a dog Can take a moment in history And see it as a victory Here and now and gone Here and now and gone Each passing breeze a song #vss365 #victory #DogsofBluesky #dogs

🌈 Go ahead Gamble On your life Say it’s filled with strife Be in constant fight Keep going at all costs Strive Or arrive Finally Look up See the double rainbow As a sign of love In this month of pride Your hands hold The prize Bet on hope That never gives up #vss365 #gamble #PrideMonth

It’s not midnight But low light Blue like ocean love We can’t see from above But when we get low Remember the child glow We can know How a moon dances How every wave goes How love flows #vss365 #midnight