Wednesday, November 20, 2024
"I saw in your eyes so many times the wish that I was not your child."
Oregon Blue
bluer than cobalt blue
appearing now
but not a sign
neither deliverance
nor harbinger of woe
in this development
of a pigment
hitherto unknown
Oregon Blue
when all the sky is gray
will be something to show
to the children
& say
this was once ours
"Brief moment of happiness as I ate a glazed donut and drank some coffee after slipping in and out of the farmers market, just a typical Saturday morning. Then I saw a flag agitated atop its pole, which made me think of a growling dog straining at the end of a chain." --@mongibeddu.bsky.social
"One of the weirder materials I’ve knapped was refined silicon."
Blackmarket polio-vaccine futures are looking up.
Because stupid knows no bounds.
not as afraid now
what’s wrong is still wrong
mornings
and my hand finds
this light
wasn’t ours prior
and it flows
around us and is lost
(6-27-06)
"And what about those suspended laws?"
"On a photo of Saddam"
Bad Santa
without his minions
to kill and maim on command · now awaiting
hanging · but how many still
who would follow a killing command
a bunch still
of willing hands · who would not know what to do
without God’s bidding
(11-18-06)
“The weakness that leads to folly, does not involve the strength to meet its results.” –@icomptonburnett.bsky.social
“evening mist
still waiting
leading to nowhere”
–@poem_exe
Throbbing Gristle are on the cover of the new issue of Electronic Sound.
"It’s all I can be, all I can offer, this small bent thing in the face of it, the wind and the Volga, and weight of human guilt. It’s all I can offer, this refusal, the form of the refusal that is our last laurel, woven into an inadequate and mostly posthumous crown." --AV Marraccini via
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"More and more of the ice cream was melting. It dripped down on Toad’s jacket. It splattered on his pants and on his feet.
'Where is the path?' cried Toad. 'I cannot see!' " --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
the truth of the dick · when other truths die
requires no quest · or qualification
marries its mandate · to the march of morons
called keep on building · the big gallows
we only know how to do
El Futuro Regreso a la Semilla.
Random # 244 = 466 in base-7; 4 + 6 + 6 = 16 lines
Origami car
Mustn’t get it wet
Ilka plot
Unravels in the mildew air
May we call this lilt
Something more than doom
Silent film
Preserved where fire & knives permute
Boiling waves of light
Folded in my palm
One more crime
That wouldn’t be the wizard’s fault
Origami soul
Sketch of fragrant stars
Sweet shops close
But not the mat where lovers quarrel
"Amongst my chiefest faults I must rehearse
My love of study, and my looser verse."
--1672 Ovid, II.1
"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
Monday, November 18, 2024
"It’s relegating art and writing to a hobby only, while simpering incel chimps press buttons and get their rocks off by having the AI make images and stories of whatever mediocre garbage is passing through their minds at any given moment." (via)
"learn to do without"
windshudder · commute-'midst
ward off rogue twisters
crosswise to our crooned · crisp farrago
let the droves go by
mechanized music · suits the roll-sidewalk
leaves lash in the interim
redly radar · a rumble hints
i speed through scant downtown
“The sestina strikes me as the poetic equivalent of an instrument for removing Beluga caviar from horses’ hooves – bizarrely impressive, but finally useless." --Craig Raine via via
"Autism began as a psychiatric designation intended more to strip people of their subjecthood than to better understand them." (via @ada-hoffmann.bsky.socvial)
" ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others." --@susiedent.bsky.social
Trump Declares Jonestown Massacre as National Holiday.
"congestion fee"
Mithridative dot-bites
of daring louche futures
acornward but oakless
& ice among flung fire
lowering morn
beaver moon
sweep no mine
abandon all bundles
on the bark's nesh threshold
rowdier now roads yield
bereft-gospel prospect
still must run
whether rain
or eke ruin
prog like other exiles
the ort-bread of dreadfeast
& save silver heart-songs
Waldsterben
blade strewn
brawled nest
bald Western
blared newts
lewd banters
wrestled nab
slanted brew
rawest blend
“ 'What happened then?' asked Toad.
'I had to save my life,' said Frog."
--@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
"Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System."
"The vampire can't get into your house unless you invite him. His offer to debate you about this situation is his first step across the threshold." --@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
"paradigm"
doge Ratatosk-dusky
predict dereliction
leaf-sift intersection
sort it out sans quarter
trouble on the turnpike
antelucan Arkham
abscess intact practice
waiting in the white room
it's a weird char garboil
four limbs & all useless
"History may well want a clear account by an unprejudiced observer of what happened on our Alphas trip." (via @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social)
Sunday, November 17, 2024
"encyclopedia of skin infections"
after the upside down crucifixions
& the outcry, there were calls to moderate tone
i know those people
"I just found out that my book 'Icarus pirouettes in the clouds', which brings together my best palindromic poems, is for sale at the link." (Google translated)
"gallery of unfinished paintings"
Ratatosk entitled
blur bludgeon
the time before limebird
a grim growl
walls wedged in the vigil
stalk our stars
worry & knives' burden
shade shivers
Ratatosk entitled
"In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, 'When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies,' & every day I think about this & also see it" --@kateschapira.bsky.social
"Spectacle
My vision burned like microfilm, frame to core.
Then it was all shadow & line. That fist
of candy stars scattered across the ER—
that could not be my mind—but I was already
expelling my body from my body.
My body turned inside out, then outside in.
I felt like a bag of blood. I was a bag of blood.
Feeling & being: twin pebbles passed between three shells,
identical & vanishing. Everyone thought what a waste
because I thought what a waste. Oh it was humiliating.
I wanted to be monogamous with my suffering,
to be regarded only by the obsidian eye
of that which devours me. Instead, I made myself a drama
of dry obsessions, my seaweed & my animal parts
spit into the suicide’s scrutinized theater.
There was death. Death was a single-celled organism
reacting to light. It moved towards me
on its slow bristles of cilia, crawled over my face
& continued its journey elsewhere."
--Kathryn Hargett-Hsu via @poetrydaily.bsky.social
198 kinds of nonviolent direct action.
"Pray
the stars
are all the feelings
we refused to love
and somehow
they have forgiven us
our refusal
to address them
by their animal names"
– Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems via @jacobwren.bsky.social
"This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339) via @tamardewaal.bsky.social via @joriegraham.bsky.social
Saturday, November 16, 2024
"Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.
'Now we look brave,' said Frog.
'Yes, but are we?' asked Toad." --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
"writing graffiti —
the urge to communicate —
probably futile"
--@internalsun.bsky.social
My World Melts away in the Darkness.
"Capitalism’s history might be tracked in a genealogy of the corporate apology." (via @alinaetc.bsky.social)
"human interest story"
rant hareious junta
rude unwanted strudel
hazard my gimp gizzard
forget throes of witness
mime with glass immerse-play
that made but glyph-diff'rence
“To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?”
--Simone Weil in Gravity And Grace via @scherezadenfreude.bsky.social
"before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them" --@cait.bsky.social
Obligations 2. (via @maryanncorbett.bsky.social)
always when among
headstones i look for the ones
of nineteen-eighteen
i say after they lower
the box with crane so gentle
"summer breeze
lifts a corner
of our picnic blanket --
I place a grape
on your outstretched tongue"
--Michael Dylan Welch via via @evecastle.bsky.social
"Creation is an act of power – a reaching inward to find something stronger than our circumstances, a way of claiming space in a world that sometimes seems intent on shrinking us." (via feuilleton)
“ 'I never thought they would hang US from gibbets,' sobs newpaper who spent past few months sanewashing the Let’s Hang Journalists From Gibbets Party." --@malaclypse.bsky.social via @ratatosk.bsky.social
"In the spirit of 'actually Nero was quite good with that fiddle,' some parts of society collapsing will be funny." --@kenwhite.bsky.social via @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Once i fled North, as far as i could ride,
till i stood by the shores of Hudson Bay
and saw where springtime's Fahrenheit so high
had melted part, & there clear water made.
Now i imagine we will have to show
viddies of when our world was crowned with ice
for those to come, if they would snatch a dose;
or on some indoor snow-machine rely...
But that were least of what we stand to lose
cruel year by crueler year, where we are bound,
& almost all our treasures wrack-impugned.
Remembered white in this slight poem i house,
for what else falls to no skald's power to mend.
(2019)
beaver moon
a bone mover
a robe venom
a nerve boom
or above men
O, She Says. (via @maryanncorbett.bsky.social)
"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." --Albert Burneko via @vaspider.gay
"Ratatosk's army"
interregnum festschrift
shrapnel-plated caption
Dhrawnglow or agley path
i glower here cowan
anthem of blank inklings
interregnum feghoot
in the angst-gray ascian
orca play of pleadings
"who gnaws on Ratatosk?"
all the things i saved
i thought might be fixed one day
"You could process any feeling with this book."
testing the third thumb
the weeds are winning now
pathetic wooze
or buyer's remorse mangled
in a rove backroom
"And I stood trembling on the darksome brink,
And saw its bituminous sides stretch far below..."
--J Stanyan Bigg
"Toad went out to his garden with some candles.
'I will read the seeds a story,' said Toad. 'Then they will not be afraid.' "--@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
and every foulness
will seek fulfillment
promised license
and every foulness
and every illness
will mob the firmament
and every foulness
will seek fulfillment
full moon Plano morn
"REDS + WINE" on the sidewalk
some long-lost sojourn
recalled to me now in song
i only just recognized
"I have faced fascism before, in this very country."
"Why did the palindrome cross the road?
To get a map a mate got."
--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social