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New Yorker cover.

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How I Quit SPIN.

"19th century intelligence failure: a general got blackmailed in an opium parlor by a conwoman posing as an exotic Shanghai dancer

20th century: the code was cracked by the smartest scientists in human history working around the clock in a secret location

21st century: the boys in the group chat" --@aelkus.bsky.social

Blueberries for Cal.

medicine box makeshift
among decayed hungers
far off thunder fended
fury & eave leavings
payback flagrant pinball
poetry goes nosing

illness the cute coalmine
catches each man-matchstick
roosts in the door rista
rollicking glaze mazement
payback flagrant pinball
putative hour-cowbell

therapy-thong'd werewolf
crownthistle, orc orchid
this fine terrain's rigor
ruined by dropped options
payback flagrant pinball
appalling trench fallback

trouble-tried cyborg

Dianthus.

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Family of Bones.

this week's Guernica
dust of people, dust of homes
swiftly vaporized

now rendered uncountable
in the twinkling of an eye

The Task Force.

" I then spend days, weeks, longer, taking out most of the things I want to say, so the poem ends up as a sort of epitaph to itself..." --John Glenday via Poetry Blog Digest

Nomad Poem.

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We are Great Again.

" 'I wonder who began this treating of people as fellow creatures. It is never a success.'
'Once begun, it is a difficult thing to give up.'
'We shall lose interest in it, when the novelty wears off. It seemed such an original idea.'
'We can see how unnatural it is, by what comes of it.' " --@ivycomptonburnett.bsky.social

The Field of Contemporary Art.

"sculpture of a storm"

pale krill Kristallnacht
crannog oghamtarot
return to task Sisyphus
in the tar-stuck sorrow

lament of merch fontnik
mere shadowlorn gradgrind
the toy miles vend telson
task Sisyphus kisses

Kristallnacht left nest egg
never again window
boots in the streets strangury
stern crannog my cairnperch

Cinquain.

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Getting to TERF Island.

"the wind's warfare"

1.
cancer hacks · & hack cancer
private front · of a frayed war
bright colors & shapes · box your jam
of defunctive heeding · & lessening heft
things that fall · no final clasping
silence that seals · smiting & smoke
& the rendered roster · of razed cities rides
a rune at a time · in my timid cough

2.
even the furious · have lain down in desuetude
darksomely plied · with all the wrong pills
militant to a fault · but now malleable
& none next raging · against all ruin
they've taught us to take · what the toy shop sells
all of my heroes herded · even the furious

3.
May should be fun · a razor faring
no ringside seat · no rote spectacle
just realization · of deep drowning
growing on the flicker-phiz · of each phantom

4.
reign of slippage slynudge
beautiful book fronts
brightfadge & brave flavors
song of the sands run
& everybody watching

Collateral Inhalation. (via @joriegraham.bsky.social) (That's about a "Guernica" a week, for those keeping track.)

"knocking chestnuts
releasing a moth
in the autumn twilight"

--@poemexe.com

To Sir, With Love.

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"We travel across the bottom of the sky the way a crab moves across the bottom of the sea."

"watched my cat cough up a hairball yesterday and thought, yes, that's what writing is like" --@michelletaylor.bsky.social

The Religious Experience of Philip K Dick.

"garden of heroes"

1.
subgumption · gainsayed instanter
in the half light hilching · a hard whommel
search for exemptions · zero sum Gumby
   on the edge of a chasm
2.
last-airt ivywoven
integral words · birdseed
cinema Sunday

3.
death picks us off
like turtles gone to spawn
on the only beach

4.
trackless hours eke
icy the cloud splice
smize vigil smidgen

smaragdine lean-to

The Bloody Chamber.