Tag Archives: Microfiction

its usual nihilism

Posted on October 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Time moves on with its usual nihilism, mows us all down, jaw-droppingly insensate to our preference for living. Guns us down. In another split second millennia will pass and the beings on earth have … Continue reading →

the syringe hamper

Posted on October 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

red is our color she respects the tracksuit since julyshe yodels kindness+irritation at once we’re two awesome marxist archerscommies at the bullseye dialectics i am the third from the ringmaster in the photoshe’s center-right by the red gunner red is … Continue reading →

big castrate roller

Posted on October 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

withdrawal at creation haggle haired+heinous in hennaproclaims the belligerent of bemoan he shackles the liminal stallon the prowl for a crochet gewgaw and a quavering bardoon an anvil toe charterheaded for the underworld he’s a mangle hack for tag and … Continue reading →

pepper puff signyfing

Posted on October 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

ideal and spleen a beloved cleansera spud comes late iconic fingermarks on linoleumworship stumbling cataclysm cob mink’s boohoos testedideal and spleen in reverse bidet surfers on the stormriding trample clamp trolleys tubular and decidedly gnarlypanorama jumpers in clay jeer the … Continue reading →

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wisps of blue

Posted on October 2, 2024 by istsfor manity

Glossolalia : Echolalia (redux) Wrack & wreck & rookThat emprise begets another & againWe are out of time, this world not keenOn us but wishing to push us backBack to glossolalia—an echolaliaPangloss-ian & Martin-esque—The sound of a mouthful of wasps … Continue reading →

abandon all hope

Posted on October 1, 2024 by istsfor manity

purgative pejoratives operate upon mewith the can openerrender me a jaggedpiece of election meatmake my heart a hologram ringfestoon my cisgendered sexwith ringlets of onionsome states eat pets with abandon (abandon all hope) my patrimony bleedslike a curlicue fibberlet us … Continue reading →

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incubated intubated spacesuited

Posted on September 30, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Last Nimbus A nebula forms around my headboard& congeals—a pulsating fathom’s roost. A blinding white flash—great speedwell & arrowhead fall. Encrusted like the lotus-eaters—incubated / intubated / spacesuited /pillows backboned. A pair of florins for eyewear—now set for the … Continue reading →

seventh planetary boundary

Posted on September 29, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Blue poured into summer blue,A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,The roof of the silo blazed, and I knewThat part of my life was over. — Stanley Kunitz / “End of Summer” As floodwaters … Continue reading →

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machination foreleg tactical

Posted on September 28, 2024 by istsfor manity

icy baffles fu tanka rowlock fealty fuhummingbird machinationforeleg tacticalcardinal swath anagramaqueduct nightmare fissures What I’m Reading: At the cliff of desolation I make my homeFar from the batsThe moon will not roost — Matt Broaddus / “The Answer Is Beef”

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leaflets of color

Posted on September 26, 2024 by istsfor manity

graphic scourges thee first woundhis intermediary explorationof synesthesiac particularityakin to visual musicor graphic scourgesfrom apparent cellular shavingshanging a pendulous doctoratedrawn directly from squints+luminous winkles+leaflets of color pawpaws made into astonishing compotes scripture filled with soaks skims +sneezes +eyewitness darkroomstarot caribous+ … Continue reading →