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Apr. 30th, 2026 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oliviacirceAnd to close out National Poetry Month, 2026:
( Yes )
As always, thanks for reading with me. See you next year. ♥
( Yes )
As always, thanks for reading with me. See you next year. ♥
oliviacircein this long season
Apr. 30th, 2026 02:10 pmoliviacirceThis is my April 29 poem, because yesterday was a bad migraine day and I'm a day behind. That means two poems on this, the last day of April and poetry month (A SAD DAY), but I am posting one now and one later instead of posting them together. So here, per request of K, is Wendell Berry.
( Shall we do without hope? )
( Shall we do without hope? )
I opened and opened
Apr. 28th, 2026 07:43 pmoliviacirceI have two Andrea Gibson poems for you today, since I couldn't pick and also missed yesterday.
( Instead of Depression )
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( How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best )
( Instead of Depression )
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( How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best )
think of honey
Apr. 26th, 2026 07:40 pmoliviacirceI really love this poem, but also, I don't know, it definitely feels like a good one for today (this week, this month, this year, this decade).
( Protest Poem )
( Protest Poem )
we are learning to make fire
Apr. 25th, 2026 08:41 pmoliviacirceThis is a punch-in-the-stomach poem about marriage and is maybe not exactly in keeping with the extremely nice vacation weekend I have run away to the woods to have with my wonderful wife. But also I really love this poem and have wanted to post it all month, so. To me this is still a love poem, in its way.
( Habitation )
( Habitation )
tender mammals
Apr. 24th, 2026 09:12 pmoliviacirceThe wonderful poetryisnotaluxury posted a Joy Sullivan poem today ("On Days I Hate My Body, I Remember Redwoods") and I almost just copied them and posted the same one, because it's so fucking good. But here's a different one, instead.
( Instinct )
( Instinct )
if and and but
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:49 pmoliviacirceYesterday was Shakespeare's (alleged) birthday, so here (a day late, because yesterday was a little bit of a doozy) is a Shakespeare poem! It is also a poem about horses, since I haven't posted one of those yet this year, and is obviously a sonnet.
( Shakespeare's Horse )
( Shakespeare's Horse )
one of a billion small miracles
Apr. 22nd, 2026 07:24 pmoliviacirceIt's Earth Day! I also missed yesterday, so here are two poems that go really well together, in my opinion. Variations on a theme!
( Third Rock from the Sun )
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( On Earth As It Is On Earth )
( Third Rock from the Sun )
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( On Earth As It Is On Earth )
Search maintenance
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.