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"In Japan, where company-centered life has long been the norm, young people who live from day to day on part-time work alone are called 'フリーター freeter'."

"decrypted summons"

dark-encrusted footsteps
staycation cakewalk
planet after planet
plummets along songlines

forest-green grog spills
Graywyvern bent driving
summer with sword stands grimly
degraded shell, sell-by date;

bergamot tea, tire gauge

Kierkegaard to His Shadow Near a Stream.

"My worry—I don’t know if it was Celan’s, too—is, if we follow his metaphor to the end, whether there will be a human-inhabited island left when the bottle is finally washed ashore. Or a homo sapiens able to read such messages." —Pierre Joris via via Fabienne Ziegler

"No matter how far back one goes, one finds a reference to the yet earlier (usually lost) works, the bitter legacy of argument, and, without fail, the Vedas ever at hand and ever distant, the way a mountain range seems both unreachable and unavoidable when viewed from the foothills."