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What if my Poetry is Broken
A poem written during a strange and weightless period when I thought I would never write again.
Jun 5
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Yann Rousselot
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What if my Poetry is Broken
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May 2025
New York City Waterworks
Six stanzas flying in loose formation over a city of pyramids
May 5
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April 2025
Open letter to the goblin perched on my brother’s shoulder slowly sawing off his right arm
A message in a bottle about tragedy and adaptation
Apr 21
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Yann Rousselot
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Open letter to the goblin perched on my brother’s shoulder slowly sawing off his right arm
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Diamond Dust and Gold Filigree
Springtime in Paris so here's a poem for my lovebug 🐞 written in a fugue state in the darkest hours of the night
Apr 11
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Yann Rousselot
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I can't let go of my octopus and it won't let go of me
An essay about wood and metal, family roots and uprooted trees, a rollicking ramble over the seven seas
Apr 3
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Yann Rousselot
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I can't let go of my octopus and it won't let go of me
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March 2025
Fragments spun from dream-sand and nightshades
A poem about the divine, a barely-edited dream journal entry, and a passing thought in the shape of a wave
Mar 16
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Yann Rousselot
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Fragments spun from dream-sand and nightshades
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February 2025
Fragments tissés de pétales et de gravats, de bordel et de poésie
A handful of sexy French poems (I translated one for your reading pleasure) penned during my (short) career in the early days of the Bordel de la Poésie
Feb 23
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Yann Rousselot
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Fragments tissés de pétales et de gravats, de bordel et de poésie
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January 2025
When anger leaves the body
Trigger Warning: a breathless poem about loss with various side effects that may include breaking your heart into a million tiny pieces
Jan 27
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Yann Rousselot
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QWERTY/AZERTY, etc.
A(nother) poem about my love-hate relationship with computers / office workstations / man-machine interfaces / the power-tools of white-collar work.
Jan 24
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Yann Rousselot
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Fragments spun from brass filings, sawdust, loose tea
First fragment of the year, a found poem of disparate elements, dreams and snippets that have no business on the page together, but here we are
Jan 7
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Yann Rousselot
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Fragments spun from brass filings, sawdust, loose tea
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December 2024
Fragments spun from cigarette ash, carbon dioxide, roadside gravel
Trigger warning: this selection deals with heavy themes including suicide, which need to be talked about openly, but rest assured I am not in that…
Dec 13, 2024
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Yann Rousselot
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Fragments spun from cigarette ash, carbon dioxide, roadside gravel
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November 2024
POV Attending the Spoken Word Open Mic at the (Au) Chat Noir café in the 11th
A Friends With Benefits situation spanning 12 years (on and off) and counting
Nov 13, 2024
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Yann Rousselot
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POV Attending the Spoken Word Open Mic at the (Au) Chat Noir café in the 11th
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