Kyla Houbolt

Ah-HA! Look what arrived early! Eagerly awaited. I will be selling signed copies for $15 which includes postage. 8 are already spoken for. DM or contact me via kylahoubolt.us if you want one, for details! Whee! 📚🎉‼️

Almost certainly the best photo I’ve ever taken of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

Could someone please help me get to $500 today? It seems I found a contract job, but it pays shut and doesn’t start for three weeks. I need the rent help now. No work for three months. I have to stay alive to get there. Please? 💕💸🏡🏥🧺🚙⚡️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Suddenly overnight all the leaves on the dogwood tree have turned to their dark red autumn coloring. Yesterday, most were still green.

Giving a class on Friday and wondered if anyone had a favourite short film visualising/dramatising a poem, with the text as voiceover?

The destruction of protected wildlife sanctuaries in Texas for border wall construction continues long after the slogan was forgotten. Here's what will be lost: 'Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) on a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)' (📷: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS)

I very much need a full-time, semi-stable job that pays a livable wage. I have many, many skills as a result of my numerous jobs and would fit well in a lot of different roles. If anyone has any leads, I would very much appreciate it.

I’m up—nothin’ new in. Hurtling toward Thursday with vicious speed. I need $1,415 by then. Can anyone please help? Fifty people giving $30 each gets me that and a bit more. Gas, laundry, copays, rent. Backlogged bills. Breathing space and a slice of hope. Never underestimate the power of #MutualAid

On a walk with family the other day I was suddenly astonished by the moon and cried out, "The moon!!" A few minutes later my partner (a very nice man) said "You guys, look at the moon." "Mama just said that," said our child. "Well--" began husband. Child interrupted. "Stop moonsplaining."

Decided I should probably give away most of my remaining plants. I still have American groundnut Purple-headed sneezeweed Obedient plant Columbine (tiny tho) Upland and NY ironweed Culver's root Golden alexanders Helmet flower Blue-eyed grass Blue-stemmed goldenrod Tall aneome Smooth beardtongue...

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the idea of an internally consistent poetry collection is in line with monoculture, neurotypical, elevator pitch, poetry as commerce.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 69. If you are lucky enough to have #solitarybees in your garden - LOOK AFTER THEM! They build small solitary nests in cavities in the ground/timber/walls, fly for only a few weeks, don’t swarm and are superb #pollinators. #bees #nature #gardens

Currently reading: The Great Refusal by Casey Gerald. Highly recommend. Inspiring. Radical. Sharp.

[CW: slavery, SA] I wish this were true, but it's not even close to true.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Wishing and hoping that you may yet live to increase the debt which our Country owes you" - Pres. Madison, to Pres. Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings was younger than most of Epstein's victims.

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌲🌿🍂🖌🐡Seed dispersal is really important to plants. So there are many strategies & forms of seeds, and many terms for them. What is a diaspore? The entire dispersal unit that contains seeds, along with anything that helps it disperse. Diaspores can be very small, or enormous. #BUC2026

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Let's not get carried away, sayeth caraway?

Hot fresh poem.

Spittoon Movie-Telling Night @ Comedy Citadel, Thursday 8 pm. 8 performers are going to narrate silent movie clips with their amazing poetic texts, bringing back the art of movie-telling to Beijing.

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Please can you help our sanctuary out of the mud? We have launched our BIG WINTER fundraiser! We need specialist mats fitted in our grass free, rehab paddock to stop the sinking mud! Please can you help us reach our target? Details: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... Please SHARE 💚 #rescueanimals

The other day, at a thrift store, I bought an old record album called "Sounds Wasps Make". When I got it home and played it, I said to myself, "This doesn't sound anything like wasp sounds." Then I realized, I was playing the Bee side.

Oh I was wrong! That third Ars Poetica I mentioned is not, in fact, collected in Dance On, nor is it collected in Mapless. Huh. I was sure....Sorry, I flubbed it! 🙄

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

🚨🚨ALERT #OnceInALifeTime event is happening right now with my #BlackBamboo 🚨my potted #Bamboo is blooming which means this variety is blooming all over the world 🌎 at the same time 🤯last time was 1905 or 1908 #Flowers #Gardening #WorldWideEvent #Nature

As I was looking for the Patchen piece, I discovered I have yet another Ars Poetica (making 3 all together; the 3rd is collected in forthcoming Dance On.) So this #SmallPoemSunday gets 2 from me. Thanks, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !

it’s a very exciting #smallpoemsunday bc Tired Light is now out in the world from @thirtywestph.com!! here’s a snippet from TL, + a small Self-Portrait originally in Loser IX & featured today @plaguecircus.bsky.social. I’m also excited to be reading in less than 2 weeks w/two amazing poet friends :)

#smallpoemsunday title poem by Jamie Hood, How to be a Good Girl

Wonderfully descriptive alt text. If only I didn't have to write alt text on my phone, I might be able to do this also. However.... my thanks to those who can, and do! (My alt text is usually very brief.)

Wallace Stevens, Harmonium

By the way, I was then wakened at 7:30am (on a Saturday!) by the road being paved which shook the house for the entire morning. I am so sleepy 🥱 #birds 🌿

So, nothing in for days, and now I’m jot even sure $1,600 will be enough. My “October surprise” was being led on and gaslit by a prospective employer who said, “LOL, no!” last minute. My health issues might cost me another (shitty) job. My need’s much deeper. But even $300 of this would be a help.

Mount St. Helens is located 52 miles (83 km) north of Portland, Oregon, and 98 miles (158 km) south of Seattle in Washington State. A 1980 eruption of its volcano reduced the peak elevation from 9,677 feet (2,950 meters) to the current peak elevation of 8,363 ft (2,549 m).

Thank you for this space! My ER visit Wednesday resulted in a severe infection from my broken teeth. I need antibiotics that are sitting at the pharmacy - $20. I MUST take them with food - I need $200 worth of groceries for my family. It should last a few days. Please help if you can! $mhj915

One happy story in this - a friend was entering a novel competition, was devastated to find she’d left a typo on page one. Agent judge said “oh it was fine, instantly gave me confidence it wasn’t ai”:)