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sageandscorpiongrass · 8 months

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Have you ever thought about losing your brother?

me vs. making webweaves on dying and family. really this was just an excuse to think about killing flies.

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sicknessinmotion · 7 months

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family is a sort of animal.

unknown author // william-adolphe bouguereau // sophocles (translation by anne carson) // dante émile // josé vergara gimeno // michael dickman // josé saramago.

#william adolphe bouguereau #sophocles #anne carson #dante émile #jose vergara gimeno #jose saramago #michael dickman #poetry #quotes #web weaving #webweaving #.w #words #excerpts #on brothers

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sleepytimegal777 · 1 year

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1. After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad - Elisa Gonzalez / 2. It - Stephen King / 3. The Sick Child - Edvard Munch / 4. The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson / 5. Killing Flies - Michael Dickman

#the munch painting was inspired by the death of his sister #he was haunted by her death all his life & he painted a ton of variations of this #parallels #web weaving #web weave #words #poetry #art #elisa gonzalez #stephen king #edvard munch #jandy nelson #michael dickman

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aaknopf · 24 days

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#poetry #knopf #poem-a-day #knopf poetry #national poetry month #poetry month #knopfpoetry #poem #poetrybroadside #poetry broadside #Michael Dickman #Pacific Power & Light #Switchflip #Poet

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leosdooley · 4 months

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MY BROTHER MY WOUND.

@/middleschoolpunkphase // peaky blinders “heathens” // titus andronicus, shakespeare // peaky blinders “blackbird” // raise the high roof beam, jd salinger // killing flies, michael dickman

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lamp2003 · 11 months

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#t #michael dickman

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goodanddead · 8 months

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Killing Flies - Michael Dickman

#siblings #writing #killing flies #michael dickman #death #lawrence speaks #lawrence posts

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imsosocold · 1 year

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Emperor Belos is what happens when you combine the the narrator of the TellTale Heart, the narrator of Ligeia, the narrator of a Dream Within a Dream, the narrator of Start Here, and the narrator of Killing Flies into one cult risen traumatized child and then proceed to toss them into a lovecraftian-esque world.

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birdiedotjpg · 1 year

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#poetry #michael dickman #my autopsy (excerpt)

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lover-praxis · 11 months

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When you look down inside yourself what is there?

You are a walking bag of surgical instruments shining from the inside out

and that’s just today

Tomorrow it could be different

When I think of the childhood inside me I think of sunlight dying on a windowsill

The voices of my friends in the sunlight

All of us running around outside our deaths

excerpt from Michael Dickman, "Nervous System"

#currently reading #poetry #michael dickman

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neonaltarofthedraoi · 2 years

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(Salt) A LOBSTER. Once out of the box The wooden box The metal box The box, the box, the box Dragged up from the salt Things don't feel too bad And then they do And then they don't (And waves)

Michael Dickman, Maine Seafood Company (2012)

#for manannan #michael dickman #poetry #maine seafood company

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deadpanwalking · 4 months

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Hi I’m hoping you can help me find this poem that i keep thinking about but i don’t remember who it’s by or a single line of it. but it’s by a man (i think) and he’s sober now but he’s listing what drinks he would have if he wasn’t sober and it goes on and on and is like agonizingly exquisite and it literally made me thirsty when i read it. and i NEED to find it again but idk where to look. help!!

A few years ago, I made a webweaving post where I juxtaposed excerpts from Sarah Twombly's article and Michael Dickman's “My Autopsy”—one of them is your guy.

#unless something has changed michael dickman is Not Sober #that was literally just his grocery list #anonymous #assbox

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twunkus · 2 years

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isnt it so crazy how okuyasus stand ability literally & symbolically brings others closer to him. lets him erase the distance between himself and those he loves and etc. and isnt it crazy how keicho metaphorically pushes him away by disowning him and then right after in his one and only act of kindness actually pushes him away so chili pepper wont target him. isnt it so crazy

#diu #nothing else to say except go read killing flies by michael dickman and i mean it .#i sit down for dinner with my dead brother again 😊 this is the last dream i ever want to have ☺

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aaknopf · 24 days

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The street life of kids in Lents—the neighborhood in Southeast Portland where the poet Michael Dickman and his siblings grew up in the 1980s—chances on beauty, along with some danger, skateboard tricks, and questions of belonging, in two poems from the opening section of his new collection Pacific Power & Light.

To a Mosquito in Lents

Cherry Coke Sucked up through a metal straw You look like a line drawing In reverse

Sketched out in the air

Lay-offs beat kids in parking lots

You don’t belong here

Passing saliva Back and forth on a teaspoon Compound and cashless

While I eat Cheetos from a single-use bag you carefully lick orange feedback off my long and delicate fingers

Ecclesiastical And hypoallergenic Getting sick behind the Checkers Mart

There’s so much I want to tell you

Slivers from the new bark dust feel good

Needles Stay dry inside fanny packs And you keep every promise

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A yellowjacket turned Inside out A stinger and an instep meet in the middle of the air I hold my mother’s hand If you land it you live forever

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#poetry #knopf #poem-a-day #knopf poetry #national poetry month #poetry month #knopfpoetry #poem #DickmanAudio #Michael Dickman #Switchflip #To A Mosquito in Lents #PAcific Power & Light

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basilpaste · 8 months

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whenever i bump things on my poetry blog its usually in earnest. however,

#basil blabbers #its based around killing flies by michael dickman which is objectively the striderest poem of all time

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fumifooms · 1 month

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Homegrown

Thistle and Delgal - Dungeon Meshi, Ryoko Kui

^ Fernando Pessoa / Killing Flies, Michael Dickman / A Brother Named Gethsemane, Natalie Diaz / Antigonick, Anne Carson v Oats We Sow, Gregory and the Hawk

#Dungeon meshi #spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #thistle #sissel #thistle dungeon meshi #web weaving #web weave #Just in case for sake of transparency: in the ‘what a relief everyone’s safe’ panel I erased a bit of dialogue he originally said #‘What a relief everyone’s BODY IS safe’#But yk. Delusions angst. Dinner table Thistle imagery you are famous to me #delicious in dungeon #Umm go check out my Thistle & Falin fic on ao3 called Slivers maybe idk #Sometimes it does feel like Thistle has an age regression through the manga it’s interesting. Kui what were you cooking #I am a firm believer that Thistle’s an adult and that that doesn’t take anything away from his narrative tho.#He’s the older brother here & that’s the whole point. God dunmeshi family narratives I love youuu #Thistles are a weed… Idk the garden theme for him works great imo. Make that dungeoneum manage that kingdom like an ecosystem

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