Author Archives: istsfor manity

cologne and ammonia her delicate blue-veined wrongdoingsher slender handfuls of bone shardsher clubhouse lay crushed and patheticher lathe upon her black veilher fragile fraction of cologne and ammoniaher frangible fiction coiffed in toxinsher old frayed cataracther daughter’s prickled shank armholeher … Continue reading →

The Lady-Killer The uterine is blasphemous!His desultory words matched his affect — Didn’t you have a mother?Don’t you have a significant other? Have you been to the Levant?Do your needles pass an elephant? You must know of what I speak … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. — Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor / “The rise of end times fascism” / The … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: After missiles damaged oil depots and refineries this week, Iran’s capital Tehran has been blanketed by pollutant-laden ‘black rain’. Experts say that this rain probably contains both soot, which can damage people’s lungs and eyes, and cancer-causing … Continue reading →

Phantom The amplitude of echoesFunction like a phantom limb Glucose seeps into the cellsSmell of white gas and charcoal A swale once full of shoulder depth snowDid you know Frazil are ice crystalsFormed in turbulent water, as in swiftStreams or rough seas? … Continue reading →

Aeonian or Aeolian? (redux) She mistook her aeonian harp for her aeolian harp. She mistook her bemusement for amusement. Her confoundment for profoundment and her conclusion for inclusion. Nothing seemed to be what it needed to be and her mind … Continue reading →

smelting your dreams in the dream there was the tropical curvatureof the benevolent sunshine earth the racked focus out of the blistering iceto an armature 200 feet up in the air there, a baybeyond that, forsaken whelks& pernurious periwinkles paraglidinginto … Continue reading →

The Mandy Brush (redux) He bent down to rinse the toothpaste out of his mouth and his left side cramped up. The cramp was the most severe pain he’d felt in his life. The sensation seemed like a vise tightening … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading:

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Okay I won’t use the word JewishAnd I won’t use the word ZionistAnd I won’t use the word genocideAnd I won’t use the word apartheidAnd I won’t use the word settlerAnd I won’t use … Continue reading →