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"Whitehead was born in 1969, the year that construction began on the World Trade Center’s South Tower."

"Davenport"

intrusive drottkvaett
dry visual allusions
annotate wet streets inly
baroque trumpet
esters tired of easing
fall in love with a heart
don't fall in love with a face
queue-remorseful & hurt
fall in love with a heart
back to the tepid waters of the sonnet
cracking rocks in search of amethyst
your ev'ry curse richly albatrossed
fall in love with a heart

Basilisk lizard running.

"Writing about the internet can be divided into three camps I think, 1) writing like Honor Levy’s which looks at it from within and uses its temporal language 2) the traditional realist novel with phones added 3) those which try to make poetic and metaphysical sense of the technological world we live in now. Here M John Harrison is situated, along with Ben Pester, Nicola Barker and Vladimir Sorokin, and oddly, very few other writers." —Camilla Grudova via

Saint Olga of Kyiv, who used sparrows as vengeful incendiary devices, is in the running to become a patron saint of killer drones.