( via / still from The Alligator People [1959] via the retro cocktail hour)

Triolet.

“Cold wind of misfortune, blowing away a civilization. Blowing away the principalities and the powers, the unkept promises, blowing away the riches and the lies. In times like these you do what you can to save what you can, make what new beginnings you can, for a recovery you’ll never see.” —North Wind

"In the end, what was most monstrous in 1960s Japan turned out to be the flow of capital and commodities that transcended Japan’s national boundaries, a flow that easily tamed monsters into kids’ toys and eventually into collectables or purveyors of nostalgia."

"hoodie of defiance"

lethèd sunlight, scythegleam
—scintillating flung baithook;
rapturefodder fetches;
ford this arroyo modem
mallvisit to mosey
mistwaft in an old cistern
shadows prowl & shill
what the ecosystem changes to
fills with the new beings

Thinnest Crescent.