This is a beautiful little poem by the poet Paul Verlaine. An offering for poem in your pocket day. I am on European time so not very awake, but awake enough to send this along with a welcoming to new subscribers and all good wishes to all. TEARS FLOW IN MY HEART . 11 pleure dans mon coeur . , . Tears flow in my heart As rain falls on the town; What languor is this That creeps into my heart?

Hi, Friend. Several years ago, aided and abetted by Literary Twitter, I started gathering poems with joy in mind. It was 2017, and I needed more joy, and so did you. We all still need it. So here is a slightly updated and revised compilation of those poems shared by readers and writers in a very long thread. I’ve linked to some; others you’ll have to hunt down yourself online and in print.

Around the middle of April, I start looking out for pomegranates at the farmer’s market. They’ll be available for about six weeks or so in April and May so if I want to accumulate enough pomegranate rinds to dye a batch of yarn I need to buy some whenever I have the opportunity. It works out because I love to put pomegranate seeds on everything so getting to eat them nearly every day when they’re in season is just a bonus.

Want more? Visit the archive to browse all our lost hits! Peak: #8 on the Hot 100 Streams: 8.6 million In the last few years, Pretty Poison’s “Catch Me (I’m Falling)” has been on the soundtrack for three Netflix series: Cheer, AJ & the Queen, and Dahmer - Monster. I have a theory about why this has happened. Because this is Pretty Poison’s only hit, I’m gu… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wr8CtmqFlnZp6qrmMn5ilpJmjtG680Z6rrbFdpbyqv86n

Very much not in the spirit of “just asking questions,” which is so pervasive among creationists, climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 Truthers, Obama Birthers, QAnoners and many others that it has its own skeptical descriptor—JAQing off—I present here some challenging questions for Christians and other religious believers. I realize that faith doesn’t always open itself to rational inquiry and empirical testing, otherwise it wouldn’t be faith, or “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen” (Hebrews 11:1).