( via / me )

Cheerful bat.

"restrictions apply"

abstract traces · of an old crime
two voids diverge · two alter-anthems
accounts curved · by the force of forming
through a harsh haze · of hazard lost now

"Suddenly the newly minted writer must make laborious efforts to describe what he or she has written...This struggle takes place, I think, because the sincere reaction to making meaningful art is often speechlessness. We make art about what we cannot understand through any other method."

"Subject, it seems to me,
can still be rendered the way a frog looks at a snake, both nearly
the same temperature."

--Gerald Burns, from "On Myth and Time", 25

mirror, variable 4.

( me / lanny quarles )

Before I Was a Gazan.

"Those secret nooks where thickest hang the nuts" --J Stanyan Bigg

Temptation of Saint Anthony.

"baby rabbit at dawn"

brown bun frozen · by my still car
i walk wispily · wide berth giving
long without latching · my look on these figments
eyespots aching · to own the world

"In 1534, after the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and claimed the 'New Land' for France, he encountered natives who knew Basque words and expressions." (via Mefi)

( via / via )

"I had passed this gate so many times. This time was just right."

1.
it's the growl i greet · & grateful scraping
bleeder of black · fetched from far lands
it drives off sleep · in the still, early hour
i listen for, longing · to hear halt

2.
for a year it used me · to yowl into the light
the brownyellow broadcast · brooding in the dark
raw paroxysm · with variable pause
took a tube to teach me · how to tell it to stop

3.
clues he collects · but the case never closes
he watches for a word · not yet notable
he sifts silence · among sep'rate figments
that will fall in phantomnation · & dissolve the zephyr

PIXELS in their highest condition.

"Preserve my words forever for their aftertaste of misfortune and smoke."

- Mandelstam to Akhmatova, 1931 (via @aliner)

Remix of Event Horizon.