Bill Marsh

@bcmearc.bsky.social

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City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words @ Potomac Review, Water-Stone Review, Copper Nickel, a couple BAE notables, etc. https://nodiff.com/ #abolishice

No war but class war.
Soft Capture disturbed animal, lost in this splintered harbor, hold back every symptom a spinning misfortune to each system its unilateral calamity, in the streets starting tomorrow, what exactly is inside return
Book cover, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Cover of Potomac Review Spring 2025 issue, special them, "The Other"
Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring "lady liberty" besieged by historical forces. Text begins: a stirring / outburst / , bearing / their antagonism / split / into / popular factions.
Screenshot of title page for poem, "animals (with (other) animals) in their mouths"
Latest vote count shows that Trump one by smallest margins since 19th century.
Computer screen, using design software to edit scanned text.
Old ironing board.
Tree with three knots, two eyes and a whistler.
Hardy kiwi plant in bloom
Mixed green leafy veggies growing in a bunch.
Late 19th century ad for the Simplex typewriter.
Twisted tree roots in floodplain.
Stack of discarded library books.
cover: Allium Journal, spring 2024
Seedling in morning sunlight.
Seed start trays in morning sunlight.
Form is not a fixture but an activity. From The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian
Sunset and trees
Amazon.com “something went wrong” tag
Snow drift.
Dusky pre-snow sky.
Exclamation point in text margin, black ink on white magazine copy.
Winter ag field in fog.
Holding Elena Ferrante’s book, In the Margins
Red Xmas ornament with CCCTU Local 1600 union script
Sunset with clouds.
What it looks like from inside a cloud
Bird nest on wall, morning sunlight.
Illinois - fall landscape
Trump Leads according to Times/Siena poll.