"last & first algorithm"
you—burn
in your own way
golden-leaved pestilence
one light-day from Earth, jumping
bugs dream
"WORD FACT
A 'psithurism' is the sound of a tree’s rustling leaves. It comes from Greek psithurízō (ψιθυρίζω), which means 'I whisper'." —Anthony Etherin
Conceptual art often leaves me cold but this is genius.
( me / via )VIOLA SMITH was the “fastest girl drummer in the world” and promoted as the original “hep girl” in the 1930’s. She was a pioneer blazing a path for women in what had been an entirely male preserve. Viola passed away in October of 2020 aged 107. A special & talented lady.
— Michael Warburton (@michaelwarburton.bsky.social) October 19, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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"Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis." (Interesting, but in my opinion mere statistics cannot establish causality. I want to see documentation that they even met.)
predawn
roar, thinking of
derelict cicadas
their sound hanging in the air like
a threat
Bruch's Violin Concerto #1 in G minor (Op 26). Just heard it today on WRR!
"everyone at this dmv seems so depressed lucky for them i brought my harmonica"
—@sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social
"The nursing home cantastoria fills..."
"Jesters can only be slain if it's funny. They are engaged in perpetual war, and thirst for the blood of other clowns. They grow a bell on their hat for every kill" —@ctrlcreep.bsky.social
what world
ago was it
did not fear its food or
an unmarked van slow driving down
the street
Taking the Keys Away from Grandpa.
ransom,
Resonulo,
out of all the unseen
Borgesian roses one that
bites back
"The fact of the matter is that America is the most powerful and wealthy civilization in the history of the world, yet a great many of its citizens spend an inordinate amount of time surrounded on all sides by cheap drywall and drop ceilings, along with the ever-present headache inducing buzz of fluorescent lights... and in these spaces largely useless tasks are performed, often under surveillance, hour after hour, day after day. " —Aaron Lange via
THE MOST HEAT EXTREME EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
A guy filmed a Soyuz launch from a distance so close it should be impossible, since safety zones usually clear the pad for kilometers around.
— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) October 2, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Some of us golf, some of us putt-putt.
I hate to say this, but that's kind of awesome.
gibbous
our derangement
ask clanker clarify
what will become of these wights so
carbon
"The author/artist who is the subject of dethroning is a stand-in for some larger transgression."
"John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team." —@jfallows.bsky.social
"The Calvinists' biggest mistake was that they were insufficiently fatalistic."
form, the
pentagram that
can capture a spirit
or with its vacancy evoke
Maya
"In 1946, Germany ran out of Nazis."
cold, limp
the honey toast
the hospital served me
yet it was a first glimmer
of home
"Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral."
"It really says something when both of my therapists are saying that the sense of dread is fully justified and the best I can do is tune out what isn't an immediate threat to my well being."
—@gnome-artificer.bsky.social
HOLDMESE / MOON FLIGHT (1975).
Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Angel of Death Following Two Lovers.
"In scenes that are far too reminiscent of a Patricia Highsmith short story for my liking, it turns out that our dishwasher was broken by a slug - yes, a slug - climbing in through the external waste pipe and then sitting on the motherboard." —@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
New definition of surrealism just dropped.
trill ghosts
haunt our halfway
unregarding tree-lined
repositories of parked cars
today
Five Vintage Fountain Pens for Beginners.
the day
shrouded & wet
asudden · elsewhere floods
are tugging parked cars awry, here
green throbs
Authored first full-length Manx language novel.
"Because of the difficulty of obtaining whale song and the absolute proliferation of birds, scientists are shifting their attention toward the actual language of the birds." —Damon Rolnick via
golden
calf —shark swimming—
bathtub full of water
as the calendar starts now to
matter
"One of the main political stories of the last 50 years, but especially the last 20, has been the displacement of planning by prediction." —@kevinbaker.bsky.social
"taillights through Venetian blinds" (bivocalism)
Caesar
rends a leaden
paperback dream sérac
red hand dreaded, far swept fable
naked
"With the joyful grips of my fingertips
I held the oozy gunwale tight."
—Sheridan LeFanu, "Beatrice", in: Poems (1904)
Miskatonic University Classified Collection, Middle-East Expeditions, 1900-1936.
"不自殺聲明"
no death
by my own choice:
& if something happens
that looks like an accident, it
wasn't.
A declaration of no suicidal intent.
"We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing." —@goldwagnathan.bsky.social
Reality Check: Ryan Coogler, Sinners, and Things That Go "Tsk...Tsk" in the Night.
Crassus
who left a street
lined with crucifixions
of our mad foreign policy
father
(2018)
"Like precognitive mass-images of the nearing future, the reek of inflammation brought its early pain and redness to the fatidical flare." —Barefoot in the Head
“The Warning
Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk—as strange, as still—
A white moth flew. Why am I grown
So cold?”
—Adelaide Crapsey
“Ontology is the luxury of the landed.” –Lisa Robertson
"Gonna bathe in pumpkin spice body wash, then have some pumpkin spice cereal, then get a pumpkin spice flu shot, then a pumpkin spice oil change, then" —@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social
"November Night
Listen . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall."
—Adelaide Crapsey
Translating as a branch of acting (i.e. impersonation).
stacked TASKS
some bullshit AFOOT
bat with faulty SONAR
no-eucalyptus KOALA
far STRAY
"There's something people need to understand about these school shootings."
"обнажение"
skull knob
radio rune
what the stations won't play
lights going out on the radar
it comes
And Ulysses. (via @harryskeeler.bsky.social)
"The unabashed narcissism, this Nero-like level of narcissism and this lack of apology … in Russian, it’s obnazhenie; "laying bare’." It’s an approach to politics 'in which all of the ugliness is right on the surface,' not concealed in any way." --Marci Shore via
The president's wife obviously hates him, detailed oil painting, salvador dali.
the moon
shining on my
key an eclipse ago
what door will it now unlock not
before
"Trying to stare down carbs with the mistress’s tools."
" 'Jesus,' caustically countered his Chief, 'but you do count your chickens before the rooster has even winked at the hen who’s to lay the eggs from w’ich them chicks is to hatch.' " --@harryskeeler.bsky.social
"I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern..."
ghostly
paper burning
sends these words to the sky
what use to have lived by reason
long years
This thread..!
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
--Albert Camus via @kradke.bsky.social
Cherry Blossoms in the Abandoned City.
heartsick
from the knowing
black murmuration's freeze
aircraft falling · at the store buy
popcorn
"In this case, the onset of desiccation and death was not instant, and there was a long period of decadent efflorescence in which new arrangements and refinements were made to poetry within the glass vessel of literature." (--Despite its initial nod to Yarvin, worth it for the audio.) I added this comment: Notwithstanding my deep appreciation for the work that has gone into this research, as a practicing poet i have reached a far different conclusion vis-à-vis performing alliterative verse. I think a drum should be used instead, & its beats to occupy the 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 instead of the half-lines. (One heavy beat before, & two quick beats between.) It puts too much on the audience to discern words that are already unfamiliar, over contrasting sounds. Likewise we are too accustomed to listen to stringed instruments for melodies instead of for rhythms, & find much of our enjoyment in syncopation. (Syncopation in allliterative verse comes from varying many syllables or few to a single half-line, but not varying the beat.) --Still, all should be tried. The important thing is to make poetry in which the sound counts.
A Book I Probably Won't Write.
