Tag Archives: Hybrid writing

a hot ecstatic

Seems Small (a dada cut-up appropriation pastiche) To voice it seems small:Pointed sizzles,The tree way near-byA hot ecstatic locustCool through the sound of edge flameLike some of its the burn on sharpenedSunbeams from air. The Locustby Leonora Speyer Its hot … Continue reading

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send help now

Smoke Tree Ring There’s something in the smoke treeSomething caught—taut, unnatural.Something fierce but frozen in time.Where’s Poppa, where’s Nanny?Where’s Justus, where’s Ma?Light swells but the sun’sGone dark.ThroatTight.SendHelp.Now.AsI. . . What I’m Reading: “‘Dystopia’ is a word that no longer means … Continue reading

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a gauzy moment

Monk’s Murk There’s a gauzy moment when the sky seems out of focus—as if viewed through a vaseline-fingered lens at the back of a super 8mm camera gate. That moment. That temporarily muted coruscation. That tenebrous fraction of a second. … Continue reading

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fruit detachment stairwell

Building Memo thru N+7 Generator (@ N+10) Due to the continued hearthrug roaches associated with COVID-19, the Boatswain of Disappearances, at its June 2022 Boatswain of Disappearances Melt, held on June 27, 2022, has again unanimously voted in favor of … Continue reading

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okay and then

Dust Up at the Ponies So she’s says to him, “when I was younger and finally got a prescription for Prozac and Lithium I thought my life was finally pivoting.” He was nonplussed. He’d been talking about the horses and … Continue reading

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because it’s huge

Found Text String Dada Fu S: Very quiet here today but a huge fly in my office that I just spent 20 minutes chasing and it’s still here. A: Don’t use a broom. I broke a window in Georgia that … Continue reading

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yes to you

NO / YES Something should be written here that retains some resonance for the reader. Something to make them feel better before going on with their day. Maybe something scintillating that will lead to a ruminating pause or two as … Continue reading

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a snare drum

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Astronaut-Bouncinglooks jive-phony, unless,of course, you think of the moonas a snare drum” — Thomas Sayers Ellis / “Polo Goes to the Moon” “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. … Continue reading

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my cleavage looked

The Physiotherapist Below (Found Note thru N+7 Generator) The young woodlouses were thrilled today with all their new apparel. My cleavage looked like a deprivation straddle. I had to bring everything in today because my apostrophe echoed the famous factotum … Continue reading

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think feel love

We Fester I. Suppurating wounds sproutLike wildflowers. We persist—Purposefully ignorant, inured,Anesthetized, self-aggrandized.We, founders of wastelands—Never heeding a lesson, everUnappreciative, and mastersOf all we destroy. We fester. II. Think.Feel.Love.Change.Act. What I’m Reading: “If I act and work and write as though … Continue reading

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