Did you watch him humbly recite his acceptance speech in French?
Did you happen to notice after the show, he acted
so stoked & grateful to be chatting...
like, how can it be 22 years since Buffy last aired?
If you claim this is your favorite show,
why haven’t you seen it since 2003?
Was it really as good as yo...
& two weeks ago the sky was all purple
& I thought of quoting the Prince song
as I posted the pic on my Instagram story
but I settled on:
I didn’t h...
A large shadow that may or may not be a demon
looms in a room designed to look like my living
room. But it’s a little too clean here,
the tv’s not on & t...
I
You’re alone & driving down
an unplowed highway near Hartford.
Cars plod by on either side.
Up ahead you spot one skidding
toward you at cartoon high...
It’s 2 years before you birth your 1st child,
17 years before your 1st mammogram,
25 years before your 1st hot flash,
27 years before the students you’re tea...
Matthew Perry died yesterday at 54.
This hit me hard. Maybe because I am 54 too.
& John Ritter was 54 when his heart gave out.
He was my first crush. I l...
It’s been twenty years since you kissed
Madonna at the VMA’s.
And I saw on TikTok that you did it again
at your wedding last June.
(But maybe that was deep ...
where Tim and Wendy White haven’t cut their hair
in seventeen years & Tim is a bass player in a never found
fame band & Wendy struggles with her 1989 ...
Tonight I drink merlot from the depression
glasses Grandma collected from the EM Loew’s Theater.
I wonder what her fave movies were in 1925.
I worked a...
After Sonnet 59
William,
In this miracle composed of your frame,
I am here writing over your sonnet in spring 2022.
On my TikTok feed someone is trying to...
Not the Hi-C Orange Lava Burst version—
But the real deal 100% fruitless
kind they doled out in yellow Igloos on field day or
at your 7th grade dance where t...
You sip your Fit Vine wine from your filled-to-the-top Yeti. You don’t want to get up to pour more. Or, maybe, you want to say you only have one “glass” a nigh...
Then suddenly, one day in 1925, success. John Logie Baird transmitted the first ever recognisable TV image across his attic workroom. The image was of his ventr...
As I watch Love Island,
as I partake in my Rosé and Cheez-Its,
as my daughter scrolls through her newsfeed,
as she tells me she can't believe
that I watch t...
In 1804, Ignaz Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem t...
Victoria Nordlund is the Poet Laureate of Glastonbury, CT, and lead master teaching artist of The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Her poetry collections Wine-Dark Sea and Binge Watching Winter on Mute are published by Main Street Rag. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, trampset, and elsewhere. Visit her at VictoriaNordlund.com