#imaginary birds

[brittlepeggy]

tw: blood bruises

those two fucking birds that i hate

i've been a bit spamcestpilled as of late...

(collab with @spamggot )

[wormyorchids]

Two birdos for today’s inktober

[beaboutitpress]

AVAILABLE NOW!! PAPER FLOWERS, IMAGINARY BIRDS by Amy Saul-Zerby.

"Amy Saul-Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity ... [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder." --Derrick Brown, Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing) "The smart, alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerby's Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds is by turns zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, direct. I say voice, because these poems are constantly addressing us, implicating us as readers, as they map a psychological pathway through love, desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. It's a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary, having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. It's a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerby's poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: 'i am everything that i'm not / when i am a poem in your hands.'" --Richie Hofmann, Second Empire "Amy Saul-Zerby doesn't know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything." --Bud Smith, F-250

https://www.createspace.com/6885561

https://www.createspace.com/6885561

https://www.createspace.com/6885561

[wormyorchids]

BIRDZINE! Here’s a mini foldout of some inktober birdos.

[karalynlovescake]

had a dream last night about meeting a bird I'd never seen before, it was shaped like a small woodpecker, and very brightly colored like a tropical bird with reds and oranges and greens, but hovered like a hummingbird.

In my dream I was informed it was a speckled candy dandelion, and I remember this only because when I woke up I (apparently) immediately opened a new tab on my phone and searched for 'candy dandelion"

[raystapreadingseries-blog]

The Don Rickles Bird

The Don Rickles Bird is a bird that looks exactly like Don Rickles. The oddest part about this bird is that while the actual Don Rickles ages, the bird adapts to look like the most current version of him. The bird itself is docile and indifferent to race and some say their fecal droppings taste like strawberries and also shit, which is actually worse than just shit.

[raystapreadingseries-blog]

The Bird of Stolen Sadness

The Bird of Stolen Sadness (BSS) is a bird that swoops in on crying humans, steals their tears and then deposits them on the faces of fresh corpses. It is endangered because people don't quite cry or die like they used to.

[raystapreadingseries-blog]

Imaginary Birds show 8/12/11

Finally we have a date.

The theme of the show is Imaginary Birds and we will have a great group of readers reading stories about birds that have never existed.

We will also be serving food; a first for the Ray's Tap Reading Series.  It will be free and you will be terrified to try it.