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armadillosoft<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sundaySentence</a> 5/25/25"On a base level, it's much easier to arrest people than it is to go through the legal process to remove them."<a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/</a>RT ryan cooper <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/ryanlcooper.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ryanlcooper.com</a>gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate<a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoii26kayabauhkym3vtms/post/3lppssqnuj52t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoii26kayabauhkym3vtms/post/3lppssqnuj52t</a>

handmade ghost"Everybody has a box they cannot help but open, even if they are almost certain it is a trap."--A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/AmRereading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmRereading</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

Julé Cunningham"It seemed to him a contradiction: people bought beautiful houses, spent millions of yen so that the windows would face south, the wood would be cedar, and the ceramics in the cabinet would be from the most exclusive potters, but then accumulated so much stuff that you could no longer see any of it; even the light had to make space for itself like water seeping between the furniture and clutter." -- from 'The Heartbeat Library' by Laura Imai Messina, trans. Lucy Rand<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookQuote</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Vicki Ziegler"Her poetry describes the gap between mundane signification and language’s ineffable sensuousness. It articulates this gap as power, a piston, a unit of potential that poetry can harness as resistance, which is joy."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> by poet Hamish Ballantyne praising poet Cecily Nicholson <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xwsc5x5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/5xwsc5x5</a>

john rakestraw“The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving” (Rebecca Solnit, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There,’ p. 170).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a>

Vicki Ziegler"And for so many people these days, they’ve never so much as attempted to dip in a ladle, let alone dive down into those uncomfortable waters made accessible through boredom."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@craigmod" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@craigmod</a> in LitHub <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yjynxmw5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yjynxmw5</a>

john rakestraw"We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the breathing, bleeding place we guard so carefully in daily life" (Andrea Barrett, 'Dust and Light,' p. 55).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

MardraSAnother one of my favorite First Lines <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

MardraS<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

handmade ghost“They’re giving us what we want on a plate so we won’t start looking in cupboards.”from Unraveller by Frances Hardinge <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

Vicki Ziegler"This morning early, as the feelings started pouring in while the awareness was still bright, I saw how ordinary it is/I am to have all these feelings."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> (and bonus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a>) Where I've Been by <a href="https://mstdn.social/@ronnabloom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ronnabloom</a> (2024 Canthius) collected in Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex</a>

MardraSThis makes ya’ think. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

Vicki Ziegler"The hands of the firstperson to touch you will not recoil from a horrorshow of unmasked sobs, but thosewell-travelled hands will soften under tears that welcome them anew."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> (and bonus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a>) In the Absence of Another's Touch, Here's a Fiftieth Birthday by Kevin Spenst from A Bouquet Brought Back From Space (2024 <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@anvilpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anvilpress</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2</a>

handmade ghost"There is grammar that is ruled like a kingdom, and grammar that is ruled like a composition book, and there is always, always the wild, unruly grammar of ballads and riddles, and this is the grammar of Arcadia, which breaks the real into the true."from The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

MardraS<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> from The Economist

john rakestraw“Any body politic governed by a sovereign ruler accountable to nobody is in the hands of a sick man.”Simone Weil, in “The Need for Roots.”<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/simoneweil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#simoneweil</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyrant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a>

Vicki Ziegler"I love to think that these old languages were instilling the idea that "kindness" should be our basic state of existence; of being family with all mankind, that mankind is capable of being the gorgeous, tender beast I believe deep down we can be."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> from The Harder I Fight The More I Love You by Neko Case (2025 Grand Central Publishing) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/42386p8t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/42386p8t</a>

john rakestraw"How are we to speak of these ‘common things’, how to track them down rather, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are" (Georges Perec, "The Infra-Ordinary").<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/quotidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotidian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georges_Perec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georges_Perec</a>

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