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"Microtonal virtuosos have been going viral a lot recently: Maddie Ashman, Bryan Deister."

"pith helmet"

passage to Nineveh
packaged in pale cerulean
sputter on layaway
Crashsound gold-vermilion
anchors aweigh

pirates on holiday
ransack the wealth of ages
bent heads pursue their play
careless of broken edges
anchors aweigh

passage to Nineveh

Whimsy & Stettheimer.

"I write poetry so I can leave behind these frail, brittle memory cicada shells"
—@poemakontsa.bsky.social

The Alien Within.