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Day 31 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand

Starting with Dionne Brand and ending with Dionne Brand. 😌💧💙

And with that, my first Sealey Challenge! 😭✨ #SealeyChallenge2026
A hand holding up a copy of Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk, poems, which features a closeup of the margins for two pages saddlestitched together. The title is in blue. VERSO 6 The seeds or spores of a fern are carried on the back of the leaf. Because a fern does not have a flower, sex occurs when rain falls and the spores fall to the ground and sprout and then some intricate and complicated thing that has taken millennia to develop happens.
September 1, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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i listened to THE HURTING KIND by Ada Limón on libby whilst crocheting a blanket and cuddling a pigeon. all done with this year's #sealeychallenge !

#sealeychallenge2026 #31 #poetry #pigeonsky
a gray-black-white pigeon lying in my lap with a crocheted blanket the cover of the poetry book THE HURTING KIND by ada limón. the cover art depicts a dark bird on a wire, pointing downwards.
August 31, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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i read FOREST OF NOISE by Mosab Ahu Toha on libby

#sealeychallenge #30 #sealeychallenge2026 #poetry
the cover of FOREST OF NOISE, poetry by mosab abu toha, illustratex with a child's painting of a hand with splayed fingers with leaves on them, like trees.
August 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Day 31 Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing by Topaz Winters (2019) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 31, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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YIN MOUNTAIN - the immortal poetry of three daoist women, translated by peter leavitt and rebecca nie

#sealeychallenge #29 #sealeychallenge2026 #poetry
cover of the book YIN MOUNTAIN - the immortal poetry of three daoist women, translated by peter leavitt and rebecca nie
August 31, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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i also (re)read today THE FOUR SEASONS - japanese haiku second series, HAIKU MASTER BUSON (yuki sawa edith m. shiffert), and the silver book, a chapbook by jen bervin.

#sealeychallenge #26 #27 #28 #sealeychallenge2026 #poetry
3 books of poetry: one by various haikuists, one by buson, and one a chapbook by jen bervin.
August 31, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Day 30 Butch Geography by Stacey Waite (2013) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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today i am reading JAPANESE DEATH POEMS Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, compiled by yoel hoffmann. it was loaned to me by a neighbor who is a catholic hermit nun.

#sealeychallenge #sealeychallenge2026 #25 #poetry
the book JAPANESE DEATH POEMS written by zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death, compiled by yoel hoffmann. the cover is deep blue and black with large bold text.
August 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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THE RAIN IN THE TREES poems by W.S. Merwin and THEO: a poet and a poem himself.

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the poetry book THE RAIN IN THE TREES by W.S. Merwin and a white and black pigeon with fluffy feet and a pink beak standing behind it.
August 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Day 29 Two Spirit by Alycia Two Bears (2023) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Day 28 Conjure by Rae Armantrout (2020) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 29, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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today i listened to WHAT KIND OF WOMAN AM I by kate baer on libby.
#sealeychallenge #sealeychallenge2026 #23 #poetry
the cover of the poetry book WHAT KIND OF WOMAN by kate baer, the title and author in bold white over a painting of a bouquet.
August 28, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Book 26 Tesoro by Yesika Salgado (2018) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Day 27 Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel I by r.h. Sin (2015) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 27, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Day 26 of the #SealeyChallenge is when I read Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction

"I heard 1 pig make fun of a woman praying. // Dante's _Inferno_ came up 1 time."

"Capitalism is bad for women—/ Be they cis or trans. Whoever we are / We start there. Not all women will agree."

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Cruel Fiction by Wendy Tevino, a white book with a red border near the spine and a black spiral symbol in the middle, which is also emblazoned on the top of the red border Commune Editions in the bottom left corner
August 27, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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i listened to LOVE THAT DOG by sharon creech on libby. it's simultaneously a novel and a poetry collection written for children.

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cover of the audio book LOVE THAT DOG by sharon creech, performed by scott wolf. it is yellow with blue and black text, with a dog drawing that was possibly created by a child.
August 26, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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listening to A SUIT OR A SUITCASE by Maggie Smith on libby.

#sealeychallenge #21 #sealeychallenge2026 #poetry
the cover of maggie smith's poetry book, A SUIT OR A SUITCASE. the cover art is a painting of a woman with bobbed brown hair, wearing a white buttoned up shirt, with a cloud diagonally covering her eyes and part of her face.
August 26, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Day 25 Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo (2016) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 25, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Book 24 Coming into Eighty by May Sarton (1994) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Day 24 #SealeyChallenge: Leah Horlick's Moldovan Hotel

If they don't kill you first then / they sell you / to another country, // still wearing the key to your house / around your neck."

"How is anyone going to swim / in that ever again?"

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Leah Horlick's Moldolvan hotel, a blue and purple landscape with a black bar in the middle
August 25, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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Book 23 Virgin by Analicia Sotelo (2018) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 24, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Book 22 Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry
Rebecca Tamás, Sarah Shin (2018) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Book 21 Stemmy Things by imogen xtian Smith (2022) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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i listened to The World Keeps Endung, and the World Goes On - Poems by Franny Choi on libby whilst crocheting a blanket.

#sealeychallenge2026 #sealeychallenge #20 #poetry
the cover of the poetry book The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
August 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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i am reading THE GREAT CAT poems about cats (everyman's library pocket poets). #sealeychallenge2026 #sealeychallenge #19 i'm behind but i know i will catch up. poetry and crocheting and tea drinking, etc.
#poetry #booksky #catsky #pigeonsky
a white and black pigeon nesting atop a bed looking at a copy of a poetry book about cats to his right. there is a black cat on the cover of the book, with the title "THE GREAT CAT" in a white diamond shape superimposed over the cat. the pigeon and the book look pretty together.
August 23, 2026 at 9:39 PM