Tag Archives: Cut-Up Writing

a moment like this eggs on a sympathetic aging patriarchspirit of murder reveal yourself graduallythe flesh about his wrists in vengeful orbit a businessman who lived his speculationestranged in the department of the lovelessa confession — the only shock neglected … Continue reading →

Blood Moon Have you ever felt like a fatherless waif
In the presence of your father? Have you ever felt like a cornered cat
As your mother hovers
Over you in the blood-moon light? I dream of Saturn eating his children I dream … Continue reading →

Drill (The Year is Halfway Done) Dearest Depression Residents,  Your neighbor on the 16th floor is having a folly of amour fou and replacing his rat traps with soft diffuse ambient lighting. You may hear executions for the next happy … Continue reading →

Entropy Schmentropy (redux) She was crowned Queen of the Universe The Anti-Christ teetered at the edge of the balance beamon the cusp of space-time A crowd gathered on the accretion disk keenfor a victor The supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101 was unmoved—filled … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: In the long hallway, everyone’s doors were closed. I touched every doorknob and saw myself magnified. — Callie Siskel / “Echo”

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week In the end, we are all existential pathfinders: We select among the paths life affords, and then, when those paths no longer work for us, we edit them and innovate as necessary. The tricky … Continue reading →

She Said (redux) She said to herself: Thanks for renting a space in this life. Despite the scrofulous and desiccate in life you stayed around to witness the swirling swallows above, and their reflected pantomime in the water below—a whirlwind … Continue reading →

cross-wired (redux) the morality of it doesn’t enter in to any of this we can hold two mutually contradictory ideasin mind at the same time fritillaryherbaceous& compromised as a corpus callosumthat no longer holdsa mind together cross-wired and twisted beyond … Continue reading →