Monthly Archives: June 2026

cords spiraling skyward

Posted on June 21, 2026 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I think, first of all, we have a crisis of thinking or imagining when it comes to the future. Everyone talks about it. Everyone says that we need to start thinking about the future, … Continue reading →

memories ghosts tugging

Posted on June 20, 2026 by istsfor manity

I. The Maw She spotted him kicking the St. Jude statue installed outside the Melkite Church on the corner. It was the same dirty and desultory man who approached her the day before. The sky was a swirl of hazy … Continue reading →

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with angular intent

Posted on June 19, 2026 by istsfor manity

What are Fish Gills to Fishers of Men? At a remove, in a gesture, a part of a thingRepresenting the whole. What are ambivalences of texts?Polyvalencies in readings? What flows from this desireTo macerate the pulp of lifeInto a sodden … Continue reading →

apropos of nothing

Posted on June 18, 2026 by istsfor manity

Interlude (redux) It is recorded in some musty tome that in 1456 Pope Callixtus III excommunicated the comet to end all comets. A heathen astral rock glowing white-hot as it streaked across the sky. The stars are signifiers. The popes … Continue reading →

on the ceiling

Posted on June 17, 2026 by istsfor manity

Life After She woke up dumber in the new southern town than she had been in her northern home. The intellectual disparity over those few sleepless days was astounding, many folks would later say: How could someone become so stupid … Continue reading →

tooth and mettle

Posted on June 16, 2026 by istsfor manity

Wait. Weight. The southern city was full of all manner of curvilinear impediments and drop-offs. It led to a vertiginous sensation she abhorred—it seemed as if the angry sky and sea wished to become one turbid space. She saw cloud … Continue reading →

reports of war

Posted on June 15, 2026 by istsfor manity

Fox in a Cul-de-Sac Fade in: Fusty living room. Crepuscular light. Loud swelling radio chatter, multiple frequencies: reports of war, a horse race, cricket scores, market updates, easy listening music, someone reciting maths. A woman affecting classical statue poses. A … Continue reading →

of deranged hope

Posted on June 14, 2026 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The whole world was turning towards death. — Anna Kavan / Ice I moved through rooms without arriving.I lived like a light you forget to turn off. The cream soured.And I was elsewherelong before … Continue reading →

oceans and deserts

Posted on June 13, 2026 by istsfor manity

Lithiumga(u)ze (redux) What is this? I’m dizzy and there seems to be a slight scrim like muslingauze between me and everything else. Look at the sun—it’s like the fog of lithium … a weariness settles over me… my outlook is … Continue reading →

on finite time

Posted on June 12, 2026 by istsfor manity

Burning Landscapes The shallow coast has migrated to higher elevationsWe live in the time of burning landscapesRainforests to savannas in two easy daysThe grand ice shelves in five easy piecesWe’re on finite time and nothing unspoolsLike priorities heavily influenced by … Continue reading →