( me )

"...in every age God speaks in the language of Empire.."

stool without rafter beams · marriage
   my shadow on the kitchen door
the exhaustion · from rendering significance
   out of chicken scratchings
on a silicon screen · turquoise saucer
   parataxis of the moon

Two haiku by Masaoka Shiki.

"A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organizes iron filings. LLMs may be the most powerful instance of this type in history. By the time the war began, the discourse had already become magnetized." —Kevin Baker via

Harry Smith in the Record Changer.