Wednesday, September 17, 2025

( via / Neko Story, Cats of Japan. instagram.com/noealz via [noealzii on tumblr] )

" 'If so many songs circle round you,' Callimachus asked Delos itself, 'what kind shall I weave about you?' " (via @alinaetc.bsky.social)

"essential tremor"

Noir in rooms that only wireless fills;
sugary yonder, though there too dwells the nightmare.
A minute passes, making landscapes blur
while tomorrow filches razors for its veils.

Our things become ephemeral, no plans
possible. I shuffle next to shelves
clenched against that other blatant cranch
as somewhere far, the world’s last glacier melts.

"Hope is something we generate, not something that settles on us like a ray of sunshine."

“[C]ivilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
—James Baldwin via @esglaude.bsky.social

My tanka books reviewed.

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