Tag Archives: Microfiction

lag no latency

why not? on the city streetsloads and forcesgoads and farcesno lag no latency none that i can feelnodules in the modulesnone that i can findno bags no vacancies no match for rustwhy not? someone please put me backtogether What I’m … Continue reading

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stranger than knowledge

in the unlikely event (redux) there is something louder than your heartit supersedes the asperity of your bones a wind forced through an aperture moansit sounds like a death rattle, an agonal breath this which your mind fastens uponwill always … Continue reading

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an ossuary blooming

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week One of these mornings we’ll get up and the weather willbe much different and much worse. We will be momentarilyannoyed. We will not for one moment be alarmed. Weunderstand how the universe works because … Continue reading

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of vital fractures

dust-up at the sewers a jack-in-the-box of new perspectivesready and able to spew prose capes and clangthe punchbowl pronounswe prefer bamboo soloiststo instant hobble confederates call the department of vital fracturessend for the ensign of contested stuntswe got an election … Continue reading

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subsidized by us

we fade daily (tanka trio+) dollops and dogmasthe commandment zone oil wellan outdated muleout to pasture / in the drumsomething off-key this way hums all is commercial—the conifers / the lightningsponsored by exxon /flooding brought to you by shell /wildfires … Continue reading

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superheated hands on

caught-taut & lenticular (redux) lodged in the hippocampusmired in the slipstreamof an articulated faith  dashed caught-taut & lenticularin the shadow of nightmarea gesture—superheated handson the throat  a child listless in mid-aira vise foreshadowingthe pine boxlowered underground beneath a viral-blood moonnight … Continue reading

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a voicemail from

I Tried to Call I just got a voicemail from Freesia Scandalmonger she was calling about the work reservoir. I am at work and when I tried to call back I got the fry detector. I called you and a … Continue reading

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a violent shake

Coda: A Fall Evening (redux) The dying day teethesOn the tinny taste of bus exhaust.Eight O’ Eight roars away.Bayside shadows cast and reel back nothing.And now the toothy breezeSeizes the silver weedsWith a violent shake,And rasps the bayside clear.Distant machines … Continue reading

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restoration of sense

Continental Frustrations Mango and Malefactor are aware that their bullfinch-wide jackets are taking on water. Our vermouth rubies too sanguine to make the needed replies. We apologize for this indication and indigestion. All gestures are pointless and rutting began early … Continue reading

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urge to smash

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week In Florida, even the cold is warm by comparisonWe sit at the ocean’s lip as it licks the sand from our toes . . .. . . I ask the lifeguard not to hang … Continue reading

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