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Paint It Black.

  news of a ceasefire
across all the yellow lawns
  of January

too busy to turn our heads
caught up in the phantom-chase

To understand a train.

"VENUS (Palindrome-Haiku)

Pure Venus, asleep,
slid off a daffodil’s peels,
a sun ever up."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

"The British sci-fi writer David Langford reported in a 2002 column that once a 'French publisher nervously asked whether Lafferty minded being compared to G.K. Chesterton … and there was a terrifying silence that went on and on. Was the great man hideously offended? Eventually, very slowly, he said: "You’re on the right track, kid," and wandered away'."