Tag Archives: Microfiction

the gap’s gap

ouroboros (tanka) a gap in the nodethen a node in the gap’s gapthen cycle againthe beginning is the endthe end is the beginning What I’m Reading: “My fallopian arms have lostthe power to draw miracles from her fingersat her own … Continue reading

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(back) in my neighborhood pt. 27

What I’m Reading: “I walk in order to somatically medicate myself against the psychosis of contemporary urban living.” — Will Self / The New York Times

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join the circus

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.” — Haruki Murakami / What I Talk About When I Talk About … Continue reading

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jaw-dropping neighborly

lemmings sound (found tanka) haircut locals fray,cowlick, tangle, and split-endat the seams that bind —courtyard sector loggerheadsjaw-dropping neighborly love. What I’m Reading: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami / What I Talk About When I Talk About … Continue reading

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in (my) this neighborhood pt. 26

What I’m Reading: “Four wheels swerve to avoid a sheer cliff, southbound on the 101.The fat sun slides its yolk into the glass ocean. Slow down, seean empty nest of woven round sticks in the praying tree.” — Melinda Palacio … Continue reading

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last two months

Everything, Everything Everything ran down,Everything went off,Everything derailed, Everything—the last two months— Everything must pass, Everything, now,Everything reset,Everything anew, Everything restarts. What I’m Reading: “We must live life forward and attempt to make sense of it backward. So we fail in … Continue reading

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nothing else possible

after the storm animals were rescuedthree weeks later desperate townspeopleate them container ships lostacross the hemisphere forlorn people victimsof hunger nothing elsepossible noone redeemed What I’m Reading: “We are expecting in the coming two years to have a serious increase … Continue reading

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dip a toe

dare (haiku) dare to dip a toeinto your unconscious mindit may free your ass What I’m Reading: “Do not distract it from its purpose,which is to feel everything it can find.” — Rebecca Lindenberg / “The Splendid Body”

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call their dead

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim.” — bell hooks / Ain’t I a Woman? “Some humans say trees are not sentient beings,But … Continue reading

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handled with calipers

Heterosexual connotation cones—not to be missed! Bony rumours 8: 1. All connotation confessionals, for the last 300 years (give or take) are mince yetis and are unisexual. 2. Each confessional either produces pollen (male fungus through spillage) or seismographs (female … Continue reading

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