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"There is no end to my curiosity about Virginia Woolf, for example, and Rimbaud, and I could write a whole collection of poems under the influence of Gwendolyn Brooks."

“Whoever goes deeply into poetry escapes from being as certitude, meets with the absence of the gods, lives in the intimacy of this absence, becomes responsible for it, assumes its risk, and endures its favor.”

--Maurice Blanchot via @rabihalameddine.bsky.social

Monster filament of plasma.

"speed limit everyone passes me"

1.
elements we're given
gargoyle & buzzard-loll
pothole-veer or raven
mere thought in parallel

2.
blank lodgement · leper colony
rill cerulean · climb clattering
head full of harms ·hooded nod
parables of gravel roads & glass
places visited once upon a mountain
corridor of green i blindly pass
season more than lenten
airt of loss
lodgement with the polar albatross
bulbous ride · a thumb roosted
sixty seven · mild winters
prisons learned
in a dry land
& one more moist
with walls of mist

3.
chapbook's breathy chortle
char-pages & ghost chip
the bard disbarred of teal
wheel builded of ketchup

Never the Same.