( via / via )

"But of all the peoples who have used poetry to preserve their identity against the tides of history and foreign domination, perhaps none have done so more tenaciously, or for longer, than the Iranians."

"legos & logos"

tightrope woozy witness
awake in dark shaking
not to resume nimble
conniving ferch purchase
look out on that action
our orbs burn to learn of
& cannot stop keeping
cold track of in scroll dark

" In order to find out what I wanted to write I first had to write a lot of things I didn't want to write."

"The silence that fills the rooms after a cat has passed away." —Jörgen Löwenfeldt

Madman Across the Water.

( me / via )

"The word ‘unflinching’ made me pause for a moment, because I think of myself as someone who is almost permanently flinching." (via @jorie_graham)

writing on the body · beringed
inlet · all these errands prior
to the cool savvy sunrise
empty halls under fluorescents

sleep like a slanting rainstorm

The Pear.

"fiction should only be precariously there, it should always be toppling away into something else" --@mjohnharrison (at mastodon)

"... I got to Denver to see my work projected onto the Daniels Fisher tower."