( via / via )

For Apollo 11.

"If charnel houses and our graves must send
Those that we bury back, our monuments
Shall be the maws of kites."

--Macbeth III.4

Pump.

estranged use
stilb brine patterning
entire egg
feather edge
fusing ashes sericon
tsantsa stilb filling

Blowin' in the Wind.

( via / via )

"Whatever happened to all those angels?"

"Letter In November

Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight
Splits through the rat's tail
Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning.
It is the Arctic,

This little black
Circle, with its tawn silk grasses - babies hair.
There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly.

I am flushed and warm.
I think I may be enormous,
I am so stupidly happy,
My Wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.

This is my property.
Two times a day
I pace it, sniffing
The barbarous holly with its viridian
Scallops, pure iron,

And the wall of the odd corpses.
I love them.
I love them like history.
The apples are golden,
Imagine it ----

My seventy trees
Holding their gold-ruddy
In a thick gray death-soup,
Their million
Gold leaves metal and breathless.

O love, O celibate.
Nobody but me
Walks the waist high wet.
The irreplaceable
Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae."

--Sylvia Plath

"The sun and moon when they are over Gaza are not the sun or the moon."

"People ought to saunter in the mountains." --John Muir

It Can't Be Helped.

( via / via )

"In the best possible way, these contradictions are inconvenient and rude on the part of the author—to not ground the reader in either the reality or the allegory."

"Because of the Microsoft outage, Israeli war planes haven't bombed Gaza for the last two hours" --@masoud_ahmed (via @mcmansionhell)

"There is no comic book pulpy enough to keep up with what’s happening here."

garden of gashing vapors
the bare buzz of a plane
   game blunder
the cough kept dim

a secret society's lore
   quern of sills
the day with its heat held back
shimmers in the shade

"No heart for noon-tide..."

( via / via )

Dusk.

quench of the invisible · spiralling scour
   hillbilly allergy
in the lungs of the land · low hanging
    clusters of iron clouds
out of broken boxes · we peer at wonders

░ Snark 01.

"A wind of such violence
Will tolerate no bystanding."

--Plath

Ratcatcher.

( via / via miekal and on fb )

Soodle.

"Living dice, that suffer. They feel pain when they land on an even side, and pleasure when they land on an odd side" --@ctrlcreep

"It is forbidden to follow my style! They have to pose their own questions."

snapshots of a snide continuance
almost clear · capture what?

snake through canyons
whitewater-whiplash clad

From the impluvium of the House of Geometric Mosaics.

( via / via )

Shoulders.

surplus pleasure · in the book-hoard echoing
no plan unfurls · for the bleakest future
cyclone centuries · dark & bloody ground

in the war of kids & cancer
you're cheering for cancer

" 'I bought a couple of them later,’ she told the New Yorker writer Geoffrey T. Hellman in 1948, ‘and grew to despise them. They were cowardly, stupid, disloyal, and full of self-pity, and they kept running away'."

"The witch-walk is a navigation of thresholds. We know the power in thin moment between farmed field and feral edge. Know the delicious magical tension between blue sky and the bruising of oncoming storm clouds. The brink is an engine to us. – #EmilyBanting, 1982" --@hooklandguide

Archilochos 79.

( via / via )

"We keep on living, like Warhols mining our own upper dermis. And we hope to avoid getting torn to pieces by online gangs..."

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

- Carrie Fisher (via @everysongiveev)

"We are all immigrants from the only homeland we have ever known, that of childhood, and so afterwards, wherever we are, we feel homeless and abandoned." (via @aliner)

middenland marsh-light chaser
soft amulet sung forth
& mission saved by

The Magic Balcony.

( via / via )

A report on the lost 88 days.

"MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE
(Aelindrome in ln2)
6931471805599453

Rested ice
pools cold flakes
now
on a winter’s lake.

I cement a thematic oasis;
see main abaci,
all glacial, in a basis —
see mathematic omen take.

Ice inters law.

Snow on a lake!
Fold ice,
pools crested…."

--@Anthony_Etherin

"The Cybertruck is a troll threat from Twitter edging up on your bumper."

"Concentrated

Heavy as shape, light as memory
Steady as sunlight, unsteady as colour
Tall as burst, short as frenzy
Abrupt as wonder, steady as veil

Intensity is so other
   it will read
      you
Will concentrate and will decentralize, there will
   be no secrecy
      in this band"

--Robot X, 3530

"The attraction elbows our pausing-at-a-car-crash revulsion at humanity’s demise."

( via / via )

"Although there is a vulnerability buried somewhere deep and soft here — who can begrudge him some ambivalence about his mother? — he has armored that innermost wound in impenetrable layers of meanness." (via @JohannesGoranss)

wraithclasp · in the clothmom
cloister crows call foes through

battle nerves unknitted
i know feral squaredance

in autumnlight outlined
issue of lost hostage

hope should have once happened

"This just gets better and better, I was thinking."

"We have entered the era of the provisional." --Valéry

Margin of Silence.

( @archaeohistories@ohai.social via @taoish on mstdn / via )

Lost in the Ocean of Illusions of the Existence.

the bluebird
that the night harbors
has been here
a visit
phantom made of genuine things
& i woke coughing

Jupiter and Ten Moons.

the gift regained · gilvering dotshrink
morningshade's missing · munch of sweet
comprised of promises · prorogued the decade long
& lives never lived · i so align ghostward

a shallow cough · from a deep core
teach me to take · in the time i really have
this road i roll · maze-riddled

& shadow striped

"Some people associate it with clarity, which is hilarious if you actually read analytic philosophy."

( via / via )

The Garden of Paracelsus.

"Words do not change their meaning as much in centuries as names do for us in the space of a few years." --@daily_proust

"I suddenly felt about liberty as a man lost in the desert told me he felt about water—he said the thing that maddened him in his thirst was that he had once left the pantry tap running."

"silk and glass
a spider goes to and from
the windchime"

--an'ya

"...the Taliban is now taking climate change more seriously than the US Republican Party."

( via / via )

"Technology had gotten to the point where the machinic anticipation of human want and need could be feasibly discussed. But who decides what humans want? (via Mefi)

oracle in disuse · ache of sitting
cerulean riddle · rankles in the coolth
some geese maybe gobble in · gorgeous hour
for the unstymied, stark · stadium seating

Night Dene Park.

"I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave it all out would be another, and truer way."

- John Ashbery, “The New Spirit” (via @aliner)

Madame Butterfly.

( via / via )

"A turn toward practices of communal healing and repair has occasioned activist interventions in the interest of preventing further violence and envisioning a more just, interconnected future. Importantly, these methodologies have made it imperative, for example, to connect the memories and postmemories of the Holocaust and the Nakba..."

"Why does one’s best writing require secrecy, silence, and darkness?"

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955 (via @zeeshanjaanam)

Borges' library.

one glob
of mustard phlegm
centered in a tissue
message from several years ago
still edged

"It was the opinion of Sir Richard Burton that the tree runes were an Arab invention that was borrowed by Varangians and adapted to use with their own runes. Why it did not occur to him that the transmission was from northern runes to Arabic is uncertain."

( via / via )

🛰.

can you write a tanka poem on the near assassination of a despicable presidential candidate?

"Bullets pierce the air,
Hatred aims for a leader,
Yet life’s fragile thread
Swings between fate and justice,
Nation holds its breath in fear."

--ChatGpt

BACK WITH A FEW SPARES.

"The craziest thing about this Trump drama is that the Lancet Medical Journal has just estimated that at least 186,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7." --@alanrmacleod (via @jorie_graham)

"There are 69 cop cities planned around the country." (via @mcmansionhell)

( via / via )

"The book is written at an 8th-grade level; his answers more than 12th. He is, in short, writing downward."

"I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back. Endless, would it be mine, form of my form? Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words?"

--James Joyce, Ulysses (via @timesflow)

"...from Autumn 1990 their transmissions – as Radio Stalin – were broadcast from a bomb shelter built in the catacombs under the empty plinth of a vanished Soviet monument at Letná Hill."

painsick, worldsick, bodysick
on the palindrome street
High John Conqueror
graygreen leaves
spiralling in the wake of the fled stakeholder

"To explain why it hasn’t yet delivered the promised cures, it is perhaps less of a climbdown to say that it’s turned out to be rather more complicated, than that we were working with the wrong picture in the first place."

( via / via )

"Eye's roundness between the bars..."

fearless squirrel · squalor nor defeat
will put paid · to your pert tail
the branchmusk · of the months-fallen
trees to you treat · only of leaps lost
& if the humans hiding · in this hideous box
be driven out shrieking · you will draw no moral

"Among other inspired bequests to humanity, Cain invented deterrence, which was prudent of him, given that his raw intel on Abel ran: you never can tell."

"FOR BEES
(Aelindrome in the Golden Ratio: 16180339)

You hone yields
and inform us.
You perform in fields and you honey."

--@Anthony_Etherin

"Sitting in the garden with Wittgenstein, languages gazes at trees that will never be."

( gerry pocha via chris murray on fb / lanny quarles on fb )

Rainy City Nights.

"Hell is winning! Earth is spinning
   Like a moth around its fate;
And the trophies grow, and gather
   Round the Doom-world's ebon gate."

--J Stanyan Bigg

Noise.

friable walls risen
rawdogging eclipse-riptide
enormous isle armor
output mainly brainless

"Having caught the tip of the Dream, I assumed the rest of it was simply to be taken."

( via / via )

"On a purely technical level, it may require more talent than Goya to imitate him with such precision."

martyrblood spilled, sportsfans
spate of bodkin fodder
more dread the rid drywall
in a drake's snoop pupils

live burial lyrebird
or lore of pet fetters
all i can do, dial-up
with dense symbol mincemeat

i_tried_to_think_about_death_but_instead_unicorns.

"So great was this pressure she felt, like waves and mountains roaring over her head. There were stone lions roaring in this room." --Miss Mackintosh via.

"If poems are records of true risks (attempts at change) taken by the soul of the speaker, then, as much as possible, my steps are toward silence."