( via )

"G.K. Chesterton’s ‘splendidly generous and strongly intelligent study of the poet’ in which ‘he defended Browning as a great master of form, so long as we define the grotesque as a major poetic form'."

"A gentle reminder that it’s not too late now. That was decades ago." --@neinquarterly.bsky.social

( via warakami-vaporwave on tumblr / i think of this as krasnov's true face )

"To this day, every time I watch the film I still expect a character, maybe that hard-bitten newspaper editor, to look up from his desk and comment, 'Oh, it seems the clock is melting again'." (via)

"foggy day
the ghosts of winter
over the river"

--@hegelincanada.bsky.social

Solastalgia.

"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.” –Gwyneth Jones, North Wind

Tanka.

( via / via)

"Jungle" (live).

"Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it, a wise man once told me." --Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town (1979)

Democratic Socialism.

some tower-set BASH
lingers the ARIA
though now add a SIGH

calavera's HAHA
hole in ground i BLAB
divest of Trojan LICE

chemical ACNE
the best it's ever BEEN
hyphen for a DASH

throttles the ARIA
someone else's SINS
will come to try this HASP

(2019)

The Consolations.