My resolution for the new year is to stop carrying my television remote from the living room into the bedroom and then being momentarily befuddled when the bedroom television "doesn't work."

Second semester of last school year began with me having a serious bout of Covid. First semester of this school year began with my mom dying. I could really use a gentler beginning to this upcoming semester.

I have graded the essays that were in the inbox about which you were probably hoping for a good grade Forgive me they were delicious so thoughtful and so bold

Apophenia alert: My school has now had four snow days this winter—all four have been Thursdays. And three of the four have been preceded by noon Wednesday dismissals

"If grief is love with nowhere to go, this is/my mouth turning into snow./ This is somewhere." Allison Benis White

From a student poem: Because I grew up in silence/My mind is full of unspoken words

Refs in the Iowa-LSU game apparently watched C.B. Bucknor's strike zone in yesterday's Phillies game and decided: Yep, that's our template for calling the national championship game.

" . . . in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both." Christian Wiman (hat tip to Pádraig Ó Tuama)

"Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

Do I have a poem in this collection? I do. buttonpoetry.com/product/poetry…

I can find the words for it. I'm just not sure I can find the words back from it.

Can't decide which is more frustrating: the manner in which the Phillies lost (again) tonight or that I am already being assaulted by 2024 election ads between innings.

Horan just van de Donked all over the Dutch.

Work of art.

This Chiefs' game is the sad girl autumn extended version of what Bears' fans know all too well.

HOLY GRAND SLAM BRYSON STOTT

The Phillies are going to the NLCS:

Me when I finally finish grading these Comp drafts.