A poem I wrote before our exact version of now. Still lands tho.
“Let us stay parched. G’head, I dare you:”
Some folks’ll hear metaphor.
Some will hear policy.
Some threat.
What I wrote, though, was a promise.
#FieldTheories
L.M. from Massachusetts writes simply: Please send me poems about friendship. @scryptkeeper responds with everything friendship actually is — not grand gestures, but accumulation. Steadiness. “Friendship abides,” she says.
She shares her own “Crow Meditation” as a call to action, then reaches for Frank O’Hara’s electric, rambling love of being with someone, and June Jordan’s quiet reminder that friendship sometimes is just pointing out a tree together.
Read the full letter at the link in bio.
#PoetryClinic #SamiyaBashir #FrankOHara #JuneJordan
🙌🏾 What a gift of a lift bringing this new edition to the world has been … to get to complete the final edit here, #aroma2026, beneath #whitfieldlovell’s portrait of #JuneJordan, feels all the way right. 🫶🏾
One of my favorite things about being #ARoma2026 is that I can walk the streets at night and no one messes with me. Literally an American woman’s dream!!!
Ok so like … I didn’t make it to #AWP26 y’all but look … I have managed to do a thing. I’m in #Sicilia! Today I walked 500 miles of temples. I feel certain that Zeus is still salty that the mortals have yet to complete his. #onejob #ARoma2026
It’s been a snowpocalyptic adventure these few days — airports and Ubers and blizzards and flat tires and lost luggage and back home and cats and snow and ubers and JF(ckn)K again but now — finally! — I am aboard yet another airplane and yall … this one GON FLY! #ARoma! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Well it was a nice idea … three hours on this plane so far and not only are we NOT going anywhere, we’re STILL trying to get back to the gate to … what? Dunno. Roads closed. This is such an actual nightmare I don’t even know what to feel …
"'Crossing the Rubicon' has long been a widely used idiom. It refers to having stepped over a line, or passed a point of no return," guest host Samiya Bashir (@scryptkeeper ) shares in episode 1456.
Samiya adds: "We use it to say that one has taken the final step into dangerous waters from which there is no retreat; once that line has been crossed, nothing will ever be the same."
Read “Rubicon” by Carl Phillips (@pinestereo ) — from SPEAK LOW (@fsgbooks ) — and our full episode transcript at the link in our bio.
Long a widely used idiom, “Crossing the Rubicon” refers to a stepped-over line, a passed point of no return, when one has taken the final step into dangerous waters from which there is no retreat; once that line has been crossed, nothing will ever be the same. — Samiya
