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T.R. Black
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Struck by the titular poem in this collection.

All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock
Cover to -All the Possible Bodies, Poems” by Isin Haley Pollock. Title and subtitle are dark and camel brown respectively on white background in top half. Bottom half is grayish with author’s name in white above a photo of a sculpture - a human, right hand, palm up. A bent wire as if a hanging loop extends from the ‘severed’ wrist. Poem. ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES My alcoholic grandfather couldn't hold his money & passed a bad check. Hampton / Virginia / after Brown v. Board but before Selma's Bloody Sunday. After my grandmother died but before he moved the family North / back to the town of his birth. My mother saw her father cuffed & dragged from the house. The next day / by some miracle she never understood / he came home. Had he looked at the officers wrong / acted wrong / spoken wrong / been too familiar / been a few inches taller / been deeper voiced or darker skinned & for this had he caught a knee that night to the neck & not returned / perhaps my mother / needing to stay home & raise Aunt Joan & Uncle Keith / would have skipped college. Had she skipped college / perhaps she would not have gone for a Ph.D. Had she not gone for a Ph.D. / perhaps she would not have met my father. Had she not met my father / perhaps I would not be here / perhaps the boys sleeping upstairs from me now would not be here. When you spend 8 minutes & 46 seconds / with your knee / on another man's neck / you block not just the passage of air / into his body / but block air into all the possible bodies / dependent on that man / & his neck / to breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe-
June 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Augur of circularity
Bird with skull head, tucked in the jaw lives a little mouse, don't forget the snail climbing up the branches
March 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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“In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women.”
Smith College: Department of Education opens investigation into all-women’s college for admitting trans women | CNN
In the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for ...
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May 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM
teearrblack.bsky.social
We remain
A stain to you
Indelible
As the welts on our backs
Are a cuneiform
A hieroglyphics
Of a story you cannot
Look away
From a tale you cannot
Remove
To a song you cannot
May 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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pedroiniguez.bsky.social Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · Jan 8
Lot of new people here on Blue Sky! I made a robust Latinx Speculative Fiction Author Starter Pack! Check it out! Share and spread the word!
pedroiniguez.bsky.social Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · Nov 16
I created a Latinx Speculative Fiction Starter Pack! Feel free to share widely and recommend any names I may be forgetting! Much love!

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January 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
teearrblack.bsky.social
How do you know you miss something
When you’ve ignored it even exists
When the thought of its absence
Does not give you pause
In the night
Keeping you
From sleep
When you feel complete
Surrounded by all
The other
Things
…
December 21, 2024 at 3:13 PM
teearrblack.bsky.social
This is the first
Moment I can
Give you more
Than you can
Ever expect
December 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM