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"...new forms of poetic artifice and formalist techniques should be used to defamiliarize the dominant reality principle in order to operate a critique of it; and that poetry can use indeterminacy and discontinuity to fragment and reconstitute text to make new connections so as to inaugurate fresh perceptions, not merely mime the disruption of capitalist production."

"To a certain ugly cloud-shape, goblin-shred" --The Ring and the Book

"The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety.."

"morning dew
on the neighbor's grass
a newspaper
in its pale neon sleeve
holding all the world's ills"

--@evecastle.bsky.social

Spiral Staircase of the Old Hotel.