"The most insane story I've read in a long time."
"krasnov agonistes"
none of them near him know
the knack to get gear done
& he sees it all ache
break one breath tree's pennon
"We’re about to reach levels of deep concern previously unseen" —@reshetz.bsky.social
"really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not" —@dieworkwear.bsky.social
when blue whales cease their song
simply sans great chagrin
among rubelords of wrong
sword's hubris is heroin
RETURN OF… THE ROBOTS OF BABYLON.
"A roach clung to the paper label of one of the tins. She flicked it off. No one wanted to kill the creatures directly by squashing them. The crack and release of oyster-sized innards was unpleasant. A fear of multiplication through death in insects seemed to stop them, too, a kind of medieval theory of spontaneous generation. The roach Elspeth had flicked away walked off with sectioned purposefulness." —Debatable Land (--at first i read "sanctioned")
"Most people think opposition movements rise or fall based on charisma, ideology, or momentum."
of a fire on the moon
—mention omelas shove—
festive amid famine
ramifies each rid oeuvre
Deep dive into the 1985 Best Actress Oscar race.
Miralax scrolloping
scree bubbles, bug summer
sugar on a shoestring
Ingsoc meets Hvergelmir
scrolloping
wagtail through cicada dusk
Toki Pona Tacoma
coma with hokey rayhusk
"The inside of the vampire's coffin is sky blue, painted with clouds, and suns as numerous as stars. Remembered daylight, more intense than ours" --@ctrlcreep.bsky.social
"rainbow buttress"
ongoing pyramids
made of prismatic melt
the curved bricks self-unbuilt
no pelf if off or on
Sic semper. (thread)
"it wasn't always so
the words and silences
that came between us
now I bring you irises
cut this morning in the rain"
—James Chessing via @evecastle.bsky.social
“Whoever goes deeply into poetry escapes from being as certitude, meets with the absence of the gods, lives in the intimacy of this absence, becomes responsible for it, assumes its risk, and endures its favor.”
--Maurice Blanchot via @rabihalameddine.bsky.social
"speed limit everyone passes me"
1.
elements we're given
gargoyle & buzzard-loll
pothole-veer or raven
mere thought in parallel
2.
blank lodgement · leper colony
rill cerulean · climb clattering
head full of harms ·hooded nod
parables of gravel roads & glass
places visited once upon a mountain
corridor of green i blindly pass
season more than lenten
airt of loss
lodgement with the polar albatross
bulbous ride · a thumb roosted
sixty seven · mild winters
prisons learned
in a dry land
& one more moist
with walls of mist
3.
chapbook's breathy chortle
char-pages & ghost chip
the bard disbarred of teal
wheel builded of ketchup
Welcome to the robots-judging-humans future.
Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
"birdchatter in the WalMart parking lot"
parable cerulean
serene rustling empire
terrible iron cage yen
the rage of fools impairs
Northern lights off the far north coast of the Scottish Highlands.
equivocal winter
& warble intrinsic
when antlers find entry
& minds their torment seek
"A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or 'foreign shame.' A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of 'cringe quake' or 'douchebag chills' " --@adamcsharp.bsky.social
"This epistemic chaos wasn't an accident—it was a crucial tactic in undermining democracy itself." (via @joriegraham.bsky.social)
"fool killer"
multicellular word
wisdom of the emmet
wambly washer forward
ford the amber toomult
"For in the worlds remotest part I lye
Sick, and uncertain of recovery."
--1672 Ovid (III.iii)
Fire in the Sky Cloudcroft New Mexico.
The Dancing Pig. (How do i get Bluesky to replace Rapist Cheetoh's face with this in every article?)
"DJ Compassion Fatigue"
call upon all the gods
ghoulish in the mirror
no final fond regards
no hardline miracle
"Wishing you all a day of peace for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025."
"So: genial lives oppose villain egos." --@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
"dirge for the American Empire"
an unkindness of azure
elsewhere beams ugly-derne
Grob's Attack the sole chess
astrolabe-found Rodan
"Shows that funny, which bear up under repeated viewings, are as rare as two-headed snakes."
"Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together." --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
ignoble spectacle
spastic the whirligig
out of the pentacle
enter devout floatpig
Modern Japanese Fiction in English Translation.
"Or spotted plush of panthers from the boughs
Of lush primeval forests..."
--J Stanyan Bigg
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems.
"congestion pricing"
love is a low-yield nuke
nidings clustered wassail;
nightmare's costive fossil
docks plights we prattle of
"along this road
cicada cries
in a large room"
--@poemexe.com
Denebola feuillemort
frisk-snirtled anodyne
smaze this morning galore
glisk in forlorn ray’s-den
"In Japan, the Minamoto or Genji clan had chosen Rigel and its white color as its symbol, calling the star Genji-boshi (源氏星), while the Taira or Heike clan adopted Betelgeuse and its red color." --Wikipedia
The Three Stigmata of Donald Trump. (2015)
"The experience of everyday life is the real material of any avant-garde worthy of the name."
Random # 16 = 22 in base-7; 2 + 2 = 4 lines
surgical sword justice
generous spree of juice
lost in wider sunsets
dance dyed with the tidesurge
the old songs
haunt our airwaves
a season
sad lingering
fewer &
fewer defend
the old faith
that it all meant
travesties
& much betrayed
augur still
from the old songs
Too much fun with a virtual machine.
"American literature becomes problematical, not to say impossible, because if it limits itself to the traditional language and form of a national literature it misses the basic truths about itself, while if it attempts to tell those truths it abolishes itself as literature."
—F Jameson via @_ryanruby_
Random # 210 = 420 in base-7; 4 + 2 + 0 = 6 lines
cicadas in winddown
wardrobe-reft intrinsic
afraid & uncertain
hurt by aidled music
unseen but not sudden
blood-drenched tons to fossick
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a clavichord's sorbet
rendered into black marks
my grille the trace reader
where dusk's tasks intermix
friction-lent surrender
door kicked in by caring
clavichord lurk-circles
& this to find thunder
& there is time barely
"As structures collapse, dust particles attempt to relentlessly reorganize themselves, gravitating through the void of deconstruction." (via karl kempton on fb)
"Those who say the masses won't look to AI for 'truth' are like those who said no one would buy cheap, China-made knockoffs from WalMart." --@JOEBOTxyz
"Alcove of words out of cicada shade..." (via )
"excited to announce my new book under contract with Verso: Furry Marxism" --@cervixpiercer
Didja hear Zygotic Washstands by Camel Edible? (thread)
Random # 89 = 155 in base-7; 1 + 5 + 5 = 11 lines
1.
Buddha from the jungle
a place of peace
all the shadows say
book of engravings
pictures of the way you will die
know-how in the bleak eclipse
2.
a-jangle neb
shofar in my nostrils
nenuphar for Bashō
twilight of the kestrels
the questbright horrorshow
