Monthly Archives: July 2024

across the dome

Posted on July 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

Scuttles (tanka+) A large ant scuttlesAcross the dome of my tentSisyphean taskIt’s stifling hot and humid—Which is slave to his boulder? (Searing transforms to seering) What I’m Reading: Part of me is always about to turnin a direction I will … Continue reading →

black miry canals

Posted on July 10, 2024 by istsfor manity

ghost town tanka (redux) of desperation,dim rooms moan obscenities.drafts seep through pane-crackedviews of black miry canals.alert sirens. empty streets. What I’m Reading: About suffering, they knew no more or less / than we do, being / housed in luminescence… — … Continue reading →

in this (my) neighborhood pt. 72

Posted on July 9, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: But everything’snot enoughyou have to go out& shakeeverything’shand and thetremendousfeeling ofeverythingis not shook enough. — Eileen Myles / “Sweet Heart”

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may be spotty

Posted on July 8, 2024 by istsfor manity

reading writing + riding So, over the next week I might miss a post or two. I’m spending the next week on my bicycle riding from Buffalo to Albany, NY with 650 other folks that think biking 400-miles in the … Continue reading →

a blister overhead

Posted on July 7, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week the sun is a blister overhead. — Lucille Clifton / “jasper texas 1998” As scorching heatwaves intensify and the frequency of wildfires surges … many European travellers … changed how they plan their holidays. … Continue reading →

obelisk as phallus

Posted on July 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

Shot (tanka +) McKinley was shotIn Buffalo—but not here—This spot was chosenTo honor the president.The obelisk as phallus— (To the evil that men do) What I’m Reading: … Too high for most of us with “the rocketsred glare” and then … Continue reading →

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 71

Posted on July 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: the meek do inherit the earth only after the newworld becomes the old country with no pot to piss in — Alison C. Rollins / “[American Journal]”

hats and streamers

Posted on July 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

the listing ship The Puppet Pastiche Community is excited to announce our 4th of July Idiosyncrasy: Indemnification Creepy Creditor Party on Thursday July 4th, from 1-5pm in the lockup. Get your Lifeboats! This one’s a loss. But even the Greeks, … Continue reading →

anywhere but here

Posted on July 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

removed tanka a man didn’t fit—i witnessed the full measure—his limbs were removed,and mailed in an envelopethat read: anywhere but here. What I’m Reading: Vivid memories that flash into the mind’s eye might be made in the primary visual cortex, … Continue reading →

a tin ear

Posted on July 2, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Tyranny of the Blank Page (redux) I have well trod ways of going off the rails. I have multifoliate multivariances and polyvalencies of texts. I have Brakhage films and John Cage bubblegum. I’m gonna chew chew chew ’til my … Continue reading →