Tag Archives: Creative Writing

on her eyes

Posted on November 9, 2026 by istsfor manity

Market Futures The ad above the seats reads — Intrusive thoughts… Appearance … Causing Significant Stress? She reads the sign and immediately hates how the man sitting below the sign acts —a loud in the cellphone talker She sees him … Continue reading →

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thawing of permafrost

Posted on November 8, 2026 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I think the countries you singled out, along with others in Western Europe, are confronting two enormous, overarching problems that largely explain what’s going on. One is that the extended era of affluence following … Continue reading →

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a random series

Posted on November 7, 2026 by istsfor manity

Critical Focal Acuity (redux) (Fade In) -Series of found moving images as the film racks out of focus -Series of stills: long open highways receding into the horizon line; traffic jammed still; parking lots (these sequences without people in the … Continue reading →

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a buffalo wrangler

Posted on November 6, 2026 by istsfor manity

Crabwise and Operose It’s not that I operate under the impression that my vision is oppression; and it’s not that I enjoy the song that goes “buffalo and bison, bison and buffalo / canonball and rifle, rifle and canonball…” — … Continue reading →

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just keep going

Posted on November 5, 2026 by istsfor manity

The Dictator Says The dictator says: St. Ignatius used a cilice; hold your breath and expand, let go… and I do. He places live wires on my testicles and says: Go! She’s gesticulating wildly and walking waterboard eyes toward me. … Continue reading →

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tongue is loosed

Posted on November 4, 2026 by istsfor manity

Intractable (Downgrade Don) You dreamYour tongue is loosedUpon that intractable waferGlued to the roofOf your perfidiousMouth What I’m Reading: For much of my life, I was your garden-variety MSNBC Democrat, but I’ve moved left and weaned myself off corporate news … Continue reading →

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a bellows fellow

Posted on November 3, 2026 by istsfor manity

Today, The Past, and Some Night to Come He lives with ephemeral creatures beneath his feet and stanchions around his bed. A case study in diverting his elbow’s loose skin and the stubbing of his tender footing. In the darkness … Continue reading →

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hosting a tick

Posted on November 2, 2026 by istsfor manity

snouter i am a parasitic acarologisthosting a tick and a bacteriuman entomophage pullulating amongst legions of otherslooking for a parasitoid waspim a beaky toothed sort of snouterout and about for a ladybug finger or twothe dog never knew what hit … Continue reading →

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bent to protest

Posted on November 1, 2026 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The Supreme Court’s decision decimating the Voting Rights Act threatens to return the country to a pre-1965 America, when white supremacy was the law of the land, and Congress contained no Black members from … Continue reading →

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to be home

Posted on October 31, 2026 by istsfor manity

Back Home Tanka (redux) Back from the sun’s glare—Fog obliterates the sky—It’s good to be home.The birds shroud their songs in gray—We swab our nostrils for plague. What I’m Reading: One is his theory that solar panels become incredibly hot … Continue reading →

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