heighten the parallax

Posted on August 21, 2025 by istsfor manity

i squeeze an eye tanka

i squeeze an eye shut
to heighten the parallax
the world looks better

in this way the world askew
appears to gain equipoise

What I’m Reading:

I am drunk. Forgive me that I couldn’t bear
to see you off, vanishing with the sun.
Alone with the west wind and the moon.

— Zhang Xian / Departure: To the Tune “Mu Lan Hua: Magnolia”

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i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....

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