( via/ me )

Runoff.

furious ripples · roof runoff
casts on the cold lanai · still sheeted
are the yards yet · & most of the roads
it is late afternoon · i long for a book
   that is not the books i have
old snow · this senseless profusion
not for us · or against us
while we're content · to topple our stones raised
   with so much effort

Exile.

"Need to institute congestion pricing on takes" --@ositanwanevu.bsky.social via @jcsalterego.bsky.social

"I have a contrarian’s compulsion to write about this in a way that tries to capture this terrifying sentiment without conceding to a kind of winsome, perhaps melancholy lyricism in service to how things are or were..."