golden
calf —shark swimming—
bathtub full of water
as the calendar starts now to
matter
"One of the main political stories of the last 50 years, but especially the last 20, has been the displacement of planning by prediction." —@kevinbaker.bsky.social
"taillights through Venetian blinds" (bivocalism)
Caesar
rends a leaden
paperback dream sérac
red hand dreaded, far swept fable
naked
"With the joyful grips of my fingertips
I held the oozy gunwale tight."
—Sheridan LeFanu, "Beatrice", in: Poems (1904)
Miskatonic University Classified Collection, Middle-East Expeditions, 1900-1936.
"不自殺聲明"
no death
by my own choice:
& if something happens
that looks like an accident, it
wasn't.
A declaration of no suicidal intent.
"We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing." —@goldwagnathan.bsky.social
Reality Check: Ryan Coogler, Sinners, and Things That Go "Tsk...Tsk" in the Night.
Crassus
who left a street
lined with crucifixions
of our mad foreign policy
father
(2018)
"Like precognitive mass-images of the nearing future, the reek of inflammation brought its early pain and redness to the fatidical flare." —Barefoot in the Head
“The Warning
Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk—as strange, as still—
A white moth flew. Why am I grown
So cold?”
—Adelaide Crapsey
“Ontology is the luxury of the landed.” –Lisa Robertson
"Gonna bathe in pumpkin spice body wash, then have some pumpkin spice cereal, then get a pumpkin spice flu shot, then a pumpkin spice oil change, then" —@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social
"November Night
Listen . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall."
—Adelaide Crapsey
Translating as a branch of acting (i.e. impersonation).
stacked TASKS
some bullshit AFOOT
bat with faulty SONAR
no-eucalyptus KOALA
far STRAY
"There's something people need to understand about these school shootings."
"обнажение"
skull knob
radio rune
what the stations won't play
lights going out on the radar
it comes
And Ulysses. (via @harryskeeler.bsky.social)
"The unabashed narcissism, this Nero-like level of narcissism and this lack of apology … in Russian, it’s obnazhenie; "laying bare’." It’s an approach to politics 'in which all of the ugliness is right on the surface,' not concealed in any way." --Marci Shore via
The president's wife obviously hates him, detailed oil painting, salvador dali.
the moon
shining on my
key an eclipse ago
what door will it now unlock not
before
"Trying to stare down carbs with the mistress’s tools."
" 'Jesus,' caustically countered his Chief, 'but you do count your chickens before the rooster has even winked at the hen who’s to lay the eggs from w’ich them chicks is to hatch.' " --@harryskeeler.bsky.social
"I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern..."
ghostly
paper burning
sends these words to the sky
what use to have lived by reason
long years
This thread..!
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
--Albert Camus via @kradke.bsky.social
Cherry Blossoms in the Abandoned City.
heartsick
from the knowing
black murmuration's freeze
aircraft falling · at the store buy
popcorn
"In this case, the onset of desiccation and death was not instant, and there was a long period of decadent efflorescence in which new arrangements and refinements were made to poetry within the glass vessel of literature." (--Despite its initial nod to Yarvin, worth it for the audio.) I added this comment: Notwithstanding my deep appreciation for the work that has gone into this research, as a practicing poet i have reached a far different conclusion vis-à-vis performing alliterative verse. I think a drum should be used instead, & its beats to occupy the 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 instead of the half-lines. (One heavy beat before, & two quick beats between.) It puts too much on the audience to discern words that are already unfamiliar, over contrasting sounds. Likewise we are too accustomed to listen to stringed instruments for melodies instead of for rhythms, & find much of our enjoyment in syncopation. (Syncopation in allliterative verse comes from varying many syllables or few to a single half-line, but not varying the beat.) --Still, all should be tried. The important thing is to make poetry in which the sound counts.
A Book I Probably Won't Write.
"foxes will pee on hedgehogs to get them to unroll so they can eat them
i also do this"
--@nicebutnot.bsky.social via @frances.meh.reviews
Showgirls playing chess backstage, 1958.
mothman
in the dark glass
night of breaking crystal
book's wet-spilled pages left open
to dry
" 'My life takes place here amid great quiet and absent outside events,' he wrote one week after the Berlin Wall had gone up." (via aldaily)
mad king
a pink striped sky
not inaugurious
who cannot look to the groundlings
to turn
“ 'Yes,' said Frog.'“If a running try did not work, and a running and waving try did not work, and a running, waving, and jumping try did not work, I knew that a running, waving, jumping, and shouting try just had to work.' " --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
This litter box comes with multi-cat facial recognition.
in this
gloomiest world
blind cicadas pealing
taillights like burning carbuncles
lead me
past wrecked
curbs & shattered
sidewalks fenced off lanes
the words too are blocked from landing
their hent
from "Testament of a Man Forbid" (1901)
"The rainbow reaches Asgard now no more;
Olympus stands untenanted; the dead
Have their serene abode in earth itself,
Our womb, our nurture, and our sepulchre.
Expel the sweet imaginings, profound
Humanities and golden legends, forms
Heroic, beauties, tripping shades, embalmed
Through hallowed ages in the fragrant hearts
And generous blood of men; the climbing thoughts
Whose roots ethereal grope among the stars,
Whose passion-flowers perfume eternity,
Weed out and tear, scatter and tread them down;
Dismantle and dilapidate high heaven!
It has been said: Ye must be born again.
I say to you: Men must be that they are."
--John Davidson
"MORNING (Anagrammed Lines)
Nature painted this morning
as a thorn in untried pigment,
a mad night in turpentines, or
the turning points in a dream...."
--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
"buyer's remorse"
goldsmith clown ungainly
paperwork blizzard
against present desert
razbliuto Orpheus
cave of the Oz ovens
belong
little enough
to the earth · no, it is
opposition to the frayed veil
of sleet
the gleeful wreckers · we were warned of them
no riddle unfolds · in the feral garden
craw copyright · & smashtanny smidgens
lead us through ludicrous · labs of torture
pathos of the straggler
the only living thing in a rubble field
sunny day stalked by killer tornados
crud on my glasses suddenly lit like confetti
"If I knew where songs come from, I would go there more often."
"You goddamned old idiot--with your senile brain softened till it--it splashes like a bowl of cat's vomit!" --@harryskeeler
carving
eyeholes in the
pumpkin of this blind world
how wearisome & dull my tools
this task
"a late sketchbook"
cawing
of autumn lawns
dark gray against paler
antelucan veil of the deep
void's-hoard
A riddle poem but also some good ones about Gaza.
"Democracy dies in darkness, and corporate media is turning out the lights." --@julianandreone
On the Line. (via Rob Mclennan substack)
projects
& shadowy
almost-projects lure me
down the checkerboard of the days
whirlwind
Short viddy of a stern sea queen.
"The unearthly bonds
Of the singular
Which is the bright light of shipwreck"
--Oppen, 9.
"I thought I'd never, ever see that again."
“Through a partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the EDGE Shelf,” reads the letter. “EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer, and then use those profiles ‘to determine how much price hiking each of us can tolerate,’ quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.” via via @adamjohnsonchi
cosmic
defunctive reds
dissolve into savor
of what we were when we were the
bright ones
