( via / me )

"Here are some arab idioms..."

"When the person Myth meets the person Reality the spirit of the impossible strange appears In dark disguise."
(Sun Ra) —@sunrauniverse.bsky.social

Little Things: a Ring.

"lost in the fun"

lapsewing, edifice hunger
   a long time healing
starry witness · waniand plowing
   where faded empires go
a trimmed plot view · borrowed vineyard
   smoke of burning bodies
neighbors not met · someone else's
   gig in the cobalt mines
a frail balloon · ballasted by fire
   we thought freed of gravity
rode the riddle · ruinward
   learned ev'rything
& forgot it · based our game
   on a ghost called winning
finding out · it works otherwise

10-year old beating a grandmaster.

( via / via )

"This is the same United States that, in 1939, turned away the MS St Louis..."

bug auction · as the owllight falls
across years · yammering still
our own shows · shatter glumly
vans out front · invent crimes

"In harmonic analysis, you can actually prove that if you drop your stones in the right place in the pond, you can get any shape that you want>" (via @mjohnharrison.bsky.social)

"CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon.
ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk]
CHIEF: Both of ‘em.
ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]" —@samthielman.com

"What will be remembered, whether or not V. remains elusive, is Pynchon’s remarkable ability — which includes a vigorous and imaginative style, a robust humor, a tremendous reservoir of information ... and, above all, a sense of how to use and balance these talents." (via @tompynchon.bsky.social)

( via / via )

"...man was scared of spheres, italians and penguins..."

"An honest work generates its own power; a dishonest work tries to rob power from the cataracts of the given." --Annie Dillard, 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (1982)

"...US becoming the 23rd Republic of Russia..."

“children”

i should have prepared for decay
i should have thought about
things already dying as i made them
released them
innocent into a world
but i was like that world
devouring
devouring of children

"A wedding upsets me..."

( via / via )

"...they expect retaliation and are trying to get ahead of it."

catastrophe news
in a calm voice · the traffic
like it always is

no more than trees grasp the wind
bare trees in winter branches

Love is Blue.

"Carver of soap and carrots, steel and flesh,
Biped of upright dust and throbbing head..."

--Gene Derwood

Mood.

( via / via )

Akihiro Yamada’s Lovecraftiana.

"The new American dream is wanting to move out of America." —@my2bits4u.bsky.social

Krampus wins the nobel peace prize, detailed black & white oil painting, salvador dali.

the frabjous power of song
finds songs that battle grief
songs to right all wrong
& song that beggars belief

we sing as we're swept along
by Time, the dearest thief,
songs to right all wrong
& song that beggars belief

cast where we didn't belong
we snag on a gossamer reef
songs to right all wrong
& song that beggars belief

(2017)

Sunset over Advocate Harbour.

( via / via )

"People rarely mention that Palestinians are Semites too. So one might say the Israeli military and government itself has been, for a long time, excruciatingly anti-semitic." (via @evecastle.bsky.social)

slub cicala kibble
cauldron of burnt skalds
penitent Chicxulub

. World of the Future, We Thirsted.

"A.I. is popular because it gives you the experience of being a boss: you get to give annoyingly specific instructions about how to do something you don't actually know how to do yourself, and then claim credit for the end result." —@diplotti.com

An existential problem with automation.

( via / via )

Police Procedural.

"I like to think of the rise of alt text / video description giving way to its own genre of long-form writing, something like post-ai introspective-internet autofiction" —@fettesans.bsky.social via @minxmarple.bsky.social

Slowly being eaten by the woods.

epistemicide

Dis timepiece
cities impede

epic itemised
epidemic site

i pesticide me
emit iced pies

Included on this list of banned books is one that is a kid's guide to the Bill of Rights.

( me / via )

We All Fall Down.

   umber glide
ringing a glim
   ambulance
the erg, crumb-strewn
   arenas
lawyers parade
   shut away
in dim rooms shapes

We Fall Like Love.

"DNA has a helix. Exile has a hand." —@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

I don't remember the title.

( via / via )

Plano Rona.

"words/ written asunder" —Celan

"AI has enabled an entire cottage industry of what you could call algo-signifier music, which takes any viral meme or cultural moment—Labubu, Tralalero Tralala, Chicken Jockey, Epstein Files—and flays it into a dozen goofy songs in a desperate, craven attempt to hijack the SEO streams." (via Mefi)

armed men the one mischief
foaming among chrome glints
dream in the heat druthers
wheel-adroit eelgrass
old figments of fond days
a bonfire of onyx

Comfort Movie.

( via / me )

Four Walks in Central Park.

Like ýlfskr Elf Cookies
echoes limber image
convinces us vapors
vittles are & bargain

Satellite census animation.

Problem solving seems so antiquarian.

I cannot remember.

( via / me )

"I would never ever have believed this wasn't Onionesque parody."

"10-foot party subs are now classified as WMDs." —@ayankdownunder.bsky.social

"I am not making this up."

"TENEBRAE

We are near, Lord,
near and at hand.

Handled already, Lord,
clawed and clawing as though
the body of each of us were
your body, Lord.

Pray, Lord,
pray to us,
we are near.

Wind-awry we went there,
went there to bend
over hollow and ditch.

To be watered we went there, Lord.

It was blood, it was
what you shed, Lord.

It gleamed.

It cast your image into our eyes, Lord.
Our eyes and our mouths are so open and empty, Lord.
We have drunk, Lord.
The blood and the image that was in the blood, Lord.

Pray, Lord.
We are near."

—Hamburger's Celan

Monsalvato.

( via / me )

The Willow Landscape.

"WITH LETTER AND CLOCK

Wax
to seal the unwritten
that guessed
your name,
that enciphers
your name.

Swimming light, will you come now?

Fingers, waxen too,
drawn
through strange, painful rings.
The tips melted away.

Swimming light, will you come?

Empty of time the honeycomb cells of the clock,
bridal the thousand of bees,
ready to leave.

Swimming light, come."

—Hamburger's Celan

"I thought of loss, of disintegration, of monuments—of the body as a monument to the soul—of humans as grains of sand through the fingers of some divine being."

"Basically, to work in cable news at the moment, you need to have a facility for grinning while describing totalitarianism as a series of exciting developments." —@chadstanton.bsky.social

"Refried confusion is making itself clear."

( via / me )

Isochronous christened.

"Toad put his head close to the ground and said loudly, 'Now seeds, start growing!'

Toad looked at the ground again. The seeds did not start to grow." —@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

Jestocaust.

Future Dusk undaunted
by death-bringing slingshot
steering wheel burns stellar
stagger among lungfish

Kilroy.

( me / via )

Fibonacci neighbor.

Gender jerrymandered
agenda whets chessboard;
nature's game, nimble
as nunchuks, apes scrunchies.

2178 occult books digitized.

"Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns." —@tinadesireeberg.bsky.social

Hareious blitz.

( via / via )

Auroras over Thompson.

I have a weakness for poems that require a lot of explanation.

Epistemicide.

Dungeoned morn · smog manger
amounts to stiffed liftoff
shove accordion sharedoom
ship harboring Starbucks

Erg.

( via/ via )

Mominstvo.

Concentric sand lintels
cipher my smog dogma
if the word stays wizened
no worse frolic follows

"Virtually every skyscraper … has been built by Mohawk and other Iroquois ironworkers including the new Time Warner building…Rockefeller Center, Empire State building, Chrysler, all these skyscrapers, virtually all the bridges."

"some days at the paragraph factory are more existential than others" —@karenho.bsky.social

My Name is Ruin.

( via/ me )

Bent telescope tainted.

"Looking forward to the Smithsonian exhibits on killer wind turbines, heroes of the confederacy, and meticulous recreation of Studio 54." —@schooley.bsky.social

Sinfonia Per Un Addio.

Autumn's whisper ice-picked
an age of square ragebait
my tirelight glows glee-reft
glittering road hoedown

Ulysses' Gaze.

( via / via )

Very useful.

wheel in the sky scowl
scab of a long nab
gild the world with guns
begin shrinking pink
this wharf Styxside whacks
wheel in the sky scowl

"Computer! What can you tell me about the lifeform attacking the ship?"

"Half of the US populace would root against Bambi's mom at this point" —@futureport82.bsky.social

"You never see a portrayal of a future where everything's working."

( via / via )

Computer-assisted long palindromes.

"awkward silence at the soothsayer meeting as no-one wants to be the first to bring up that the portents are all extremely fuckin malign" —@webway.bsky.social

The Bad Apple Sings.

the Odradek deadlock
is dark & choice-voiceless
whom Satan’s claw clytes on

eclipses whist-isthmus
jasmine-warren’d wisdom

Elephant brackets.

( me / via )

"I knew that I wanted to write a heroic alliterative poem for Forgotten Ground Regained, and decided to devote it to a historical figure in the history of my sci fi world: Knot Loosener, an asteroid dweller who became a legendary labor organizer in the orbital servers."

"Left-Handed Sonnet for my Future Absence

After Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand,
composed for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost
his right arm in war.

A reader, as abstracted as a star,
detects rewards a secret bard erases:
cadaver, tattered bearers, bearded faces,
affected vertebrae set ever far.
A beggar feasts; a starved stargazer sees,
refracted as a desert tear—a raft,
a scattered seaweed sestet, severed draft,
sweet water terrace, eager treeward bees.
As fear, regret, dread, rage reverberate,
a ravager regards a fated crest—
a stage, a braggart’s target, a daft test—
as sacred art creates a cedar gate.
A reader reads deft verses as exact,
as faceted as Frege’s tesseract."

—Pedro Poitevin in Literary Matters 18-1 (via @maryanncorbett.bsky.social)

SlenderMan.

The struggle against the times, the struggle against the material, & now--the struggle against the algorithms.

Persimmons.

( via / via )

Supra-Arcade Downflows.

"an American sacrificing their sandwich is a harbinger of revolution" —@housefeminist.bsky.social

Chess Set.

"whether it's the wind
or the length of your silence
that brings this chill
I watch another leaf
fall from the autumn sky"

--Thelma Mariano in Tanka Splendor 2001

Melanie's student page Remembering Stonewall.

( via / via )

With God On Our Side.

"night traffic
smiles
they're just like me
faintly out of tune"

--@poemexe.com

Fair play.

"Make me bitter.
Count me among the almonds."

--Hamburger's Celan

Greensleeves.

( via / via )

A roundup of some of the resistance going on.

"TIME (Anagrammed Lines)

Seconds unite a rhyme.
Minutes see any chord.
Hours menace destiny.
Days hunt ceremonies.
Years end on the music...."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Mountain Goats in Providence in full 8bit glory.

"uneasy evening
superfluous worries
yellow jackets
hovering in the dark
mud nest in the eaves"

—@evecastle.bsky.social

"No Cioranian summer is complete..."

( via / via )

Secrets of the Batcave.

"Herm"

1.
faces in the quilt
Reichstag Balls
hailstorm likes caked with Styx silt
cool brillig no brimstone
in the bromide side gig
how old my car

2.
band of paler haze
normalize
flies in milk whelk-red dorm room
skyrise cringe in this timeline
crush crime on it like Stonehenge
idiot light won't settle

3.
blasphemy
the only ant countdown
itch-shalloped foul antlered
golem rummage paradise
pinioned with blink Algol
the crimson winds beguile

Altavista vestige.

(folding my rent receipt into my wallet) (putting on the corduroy with elbow patches) now i'm safe

Drone.

( via / me )

"Another AI controversy erupted when Jim Acosta, a former CNN White House correspondent, interviewed a digital recreation of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed at the age of 17 in a 2018 high school shooting in Florida."

"I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown." —@schooley.bsky.social

Inchmeal obliviated.

golden August eve
locusts' aching smoke
horntoad postcard peek
roving pustule grove
golden August eve
sprinkler antheap brink

Seed corn must not be ground.