Vicki Ziegler

Yes, I'm up to more Tunisian crochet afghan wackiness - here's the latest!

Celebrating the completion of another wacky afghan, heading soon to a new home! #AfghanCrochet #Crochet

"I saw those cards in the books' back pockets as
the library's way of tracking the dispersed collection,

but now I think of them as
books remembering their readers."

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
Circulation Desk by Richard Harrison from My Mother Joins the Resistance (2026 Wolsak and Wynn) https://alllitup.ca/poets-resist-richard-harrison-my-mother-joins-the-resistance/

With Mavis' and Chicken's blessings, I'm excited to be donating this latest wacky afghan to be used as a raffle fundraiser for the lovely church that hosts our weekly knitting circle gatherings. #AfghanCrochet #Crochet

"The robin makes a laughing sound.
I stop. I always look around."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound by Sallie Wolf (2010) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91101/the-robin-makes-a-laughing-sound

"I feel that it's
a poet's job to think of the existential, mark
down that what confuses me into a notebook which
I can burn before my death or not."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Scythe and Fate by @AmandaEarl@zirk.us (aka @KikiFolle@mastodon.social) and Matthew Walsh in Slutflowers (2026 Knife|Fork|Book) https://knifeforkbook.com/#jp-carousel-26339

"even I
couldn't help but look

at the way this immense figure
graces the dark medium,
and shines so: heaviness

which is no burden to itself."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Visitation by Mark Doty (1996 The Paris Review) http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mark_doty/poems/14807

"I'm a crocus, always too early to
the party, opening so wide before
anyone else is up, too small, over
budget, dismissed."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
New dating profile by Jennifer LoveGrove from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 Bookhug Press) https://the-wood-lot.ca/2026/04/02/what-we-can-do-without-jennifer-lovegroves-the-tinder-sonnets-bookhug-spring-2026/

#FridayReads #WeekendReads
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (2025 @fsgbooks@mstdn.social) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/books/review/the-sisters-jonas-hassen-khemiri.html

"Now, experts disagree.
Were we unhappy or sublime?
We’ll have to wait until the next time
an angel comes rapping at the door
to rejoice docently."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Honestly, by John Ashbery (2015 Academy of American Poets) https://poets.org/poem/honestly

"Meanwhile the splinters of ice
at the bottom of my wooden dinghy thaw
and have nowhere to go. Meanwhile I hear a river
beyond my door."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Overland Water Insurance by Phoebe Wang (2026 West End Phoenix) https://www.westendphoenix.com/

"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetry @poetry@a.gup.pe
from The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1623) https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=tempest&Act=4&Scene=1&Scope=scene

"He’s a long time dead but comfortable with the living, like a benign headmaster or a low church vicar welcoming the knitting circle."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Welcoming Bone by Oz Hardwick (2022 Inverse Journal) https://www.inversejournal.com/poetry/youll-never-recognise-yourself-again-four-prose-poems-by-oz-hardwick

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116460554044839299

"So, the next time you see someone, quiet, still and with bent head, wielding needle and thread, consider how they might be using incisive and creative tools to make a sophisticated point." Knitting circles truly rock ... https://theconversation.com/needlecraft-this-hobby-has-a-long-history-as-a-subversive-form-of-protest-247969

"Joy of being a child of the sovereign people
of lending a hand to institutions
and seeing one’s name inscribed on the slate
of urinals in letters of coal tar"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement by Pierre Martory, translated by John Ashbery in The Landscapist: Selected Poems (1961) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/41038/town-hall-fifteenth-arrondissement

"I just want your petals
casting shadows across my face. And to know if they are edible."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Magnolia by Patrycja Humienik from We Contain Landscapes (2025 Tin House) https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/patrycja-humienik-on-magnolia

"So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking between you and me

Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
Confident that we have built our wall."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 (1998 @fsgbooks@mstdn.social) https://poets.org/poem/scaffolding

"What
is fire but just another need in a
long list scrawled down, torn up, then rewritten."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
T- helps me stack the firewood by Jennifer LoveGrove from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 Bookhug Press) https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jennifer-lovegrove/the-tinder-sonnets-by-jennifer-lovegrove/

No sir, nothing rains on our all-weather silent book club parade! Check out our latest report and mind-boggling reading list: https://bookgagabooks.ca/2026/04/26/nothing-rains-on-the-silent-book-club-parade-of-reading-and-readers/

"i saw some dandelions outside the window of the library
and it wasn’t their beauty

but the way they crouched
fertile, bunched
into a crowd among the grass like whispering
girls, heads blonded to sun"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
hotel lyric by Sandra Huber (2026 NewPoetry) https://newpoetry.ca/2026/04/20/hotel-lyric/

"There’s one spirit in countless bodies,
one oil in countless almonds,
one meaning in countless words
uttered by countless tongues.

Shatter the jugs. The water is one."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Come out, come close. by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated from the Farsi by Haleh Liza Gafori from Gold: Poems by Rumi (2022 New York Review Books) https://poets.org/poem/come-out-come-close

"And in New Place a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet, as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.”

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/273647/ulysses-by-james-joyce/9780241405949

"Like a drive through hillside country.
Up and down, like blood pressure,
like the small leaves on the bird cherry

out back at whose foot a treasure
of beloved dog bones are buried."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Up and Down by George Murray (@bookninja@mstdn.ca) (2026) https://substack.com/home/post/p-195746281

"I spent some night or day watching a video over & over. It was not the one of a dog hugging another dog or the one of frogs gathering to watch a video of worms, or the one of a goat head-butting a mirror."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
The slight difference in frequency generates a beat by Tess Liem from OBITS. (2018 Coach House Books) https://chbooks.com/Books/O/Obits

"The rain will be a stranger
and will speak to itself through you and me."

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) A Stranger by Russell Thornton from Two Songs - Selected Poems 2000-2025 (2026 @Harbour_Publish) https://the-wood-lot.ca/2026/02/09/under-the-spell-of-the-rain-russell-thorntons-two-songs-selected-poems-2000-2025/

"That door has been banging
all our lives against its frame, in wind
so hard and soft at times it echoes
our first birth, that furious push

only need or love can deliver."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Poem at the Closing of a Door by Lisa Martin from Nighthawks (2026 University of Alberta Press) https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772128550/nighthawks/

"but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe (1849) https://poets.org/poem/my-mother-1

RE: https://techhub.social/@NearerAndFarther/116525145077361389

"The world headquarters of Harlequin
is in Toronto, by the way, which is relevant
to this poem." !!!

"a voice asks is it time for you to go
but she doesn’t know and so she remains
but she opts for iridescent
shimmer, gossamer web
watching from afar"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
after the bloodwork and the shattering of glass by @AmandaEarl@zirk.us (aka @KikiFolle@mastodon.social ) the-shattering

"A mile or two away, on the frozen-cloud surface
of the real arena,
a winter sport is superimposed on spring.
Third period
of overtime, and young men battle back and forth,
trying to collapse
wave on wave of possibility to a point
of dense rubber
observed at last in one net or another."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
I never thought I’d write a hockey poem by Alice Major (2006) https://www.annapoetry.com/alice-majors-sports-poems/

Tom Wayman's #poetry collection Out of the Ordinary (Harbour Publishing) awarded the the 2026 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize https://www.alpurdy.ca/tom-wayman-awarded-the-2026-al-and-eurithe-purdy-poetry-prize/

When necessary, do you POMS a book? ... Find out by reading the latest report (including another swoon-worthy reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub group: https://bookgagabooks.ca/2026/03/03/when-necessary-do-you-poms-a-book/

"Do you ever pretend
The sun is a golden grape someone left
In the sky, that you could pull it down off
Its vine and end the world, but you are
Merciful so you don’t"

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry@a.gup.pe
Dovekie by Tom Snarsky (2026 Be About It Press) https://beaboutitpress.substack.com/p/lowery-saffron-workstand-with-side

"I’m only trying to help you, let me help you,
he said, something like that, unbuckling; they sailed for hours;
the water that day was as close to perfect as perfect gets here."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
This is the Light by Carl Phillips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social) (2021 @postroadmag.bsky.social) https://www.postroadmag.com/2021/04/11/38-carl-phillips-this-is-the-light/

"All night I see something lurch toward my looking, something humid, contrived of silence launching the sound of someone sobbing."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.] by Alejandra Pizarnik (@PizarnikFragmentada@mastodon.la), trans by Forrest Gander & Patricio Ferrari from The Galloping Hour: French Poems (2018 New Directions) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147376/all-night-i-hear-the-noise-of-moaning-water

"who are you, whiff of calendula,

which otherwise is such clear honey"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
with plenteous shedding by Danielle Carter (2026 NewPoetry) https://newpoetry.ca/2026/04/27/with-plenteous-shedding/

"They may be transient and vulnerable, but they are potent, adaptable, habituated to hostility, flirtatious, deceitful, cooperative, adventurous, exploitative and colonizing beings of tremendous and world-straddling success."

#SundaySentence from Petal Power by Adam Nicolson in @newyorktimes@flipboard.com Books https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/review/how-flowers-made-our-world-david-george-haskell.html

"Zamboni has come! Rejoice!
That which is old shall be made new –
and right before your eyes, to boot –
in scalding water, a spinning brush
and a Celtic love knot’s route
around the rink at a pace that says, There is no rush."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Zamboni by Richard Harrison from 25: Hockey Poems, New & Revised (2019 Wolsak & Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/25-hockey-poems-new-and-revised & https://open-book.ca/News/Read-an-Excerpt-from-Richard-Harrison-s-25-Hockey-Poems-New-and-Revised

"She tore down the last fence by the marsh. Jane d’Eau is a marvel of catastrophe, trophe by trophe, cat
by cat; she doesn’t mind if you fish, but you better know when to swim for it."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry@a.gup.pe
Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 Bookhug Press) https://poets.ca/jane-deau-by-tanis-macdonald/

"Mist in its slow procession. The forest in
its hover. Made a sketch by distance.
Believing this beauty would be too much."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry@a.gup.pe
Dog Days by Qurat Dar (2025 Toronto Subway Ads) https://www.torontosubwayads.ca/2025/02/dog-days-by-qurat-dar.html

Mavis and I are very honoured to have our work showcased by the amazing folks at The Yarn Guy! https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUydISlhIc/