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"These are old rituals, older than gods, older than writing, inherited from peasants huddled before a black stone, keeping a great malevolent darkness at bay."

"amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks" —@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

Nightside City.

      "seer's lasik"

   still shudder
shrapnel landscape
   concrete cloud
mistily close
   funest glare
in the urn's gleam
   warm inside
car's been sitting

Saturday Jump.