Tag Archives: Nonfiction

you must choose

Huh? I renounce. Friend or enemy? A place “where there is no darkness?” Huh? Since thee Chump’s ketches run low, mizzen-masted abominations, out of the thick, cloudy dregs at a barrel’s wake chucked overboard, you should stand at attention. Stay attached to … Continue reading

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frozen iguana falling

falling tanka so cold i’m like afrozen iguana fallingfrom a palm tree trunk i almost look like a brancha sign of weather whiplash? What I’m Reading: You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there’s … Continue reading

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i’m going away

My Story / Your Story (an inexquisite corpse) Mine I am nothing but decay. A vessel for soft and hard drinking. A Celsius. An Ascent. Grain alcohol. The descent of man — an ascendancy of brimstone and vitriol. This is … Continue reading

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darkness seeped in

Canker-Gray (redux) The woman in 316 drowned in a starless fog.  She danced herself dizzy and collapsed onto her bed. Then the fog moved in. She ingested too much of the antipsychotic. It altered her senses. The fog was impossibly … Continue reading

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the nation weeded

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I’ll tell you diasters might die outif you stopped feeding them firewood. . . — Asmaa Azaizeh / “Reflection” The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the … Continue reading

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crochet synchronized heartbeats

Naked Preamble (redux) Juana weaves her homily—one uprise after another, unaware that she’s at the precipice of her irritating anecdotes. Jean believes he deserves his honorific—the one Juana refuses to use when addressing him. Gaffes occur in a world ruled … Continue reading

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the new balm

The Loon Poet’s Hypophora (redux) Does anyone have ballroom gabardineto sell a gigolo? Are you upgrading your ballpointgab for sundial gadgets? Or looking for a private future? (I’m looking for sunhat provoststo enjoy the upcoming spring cleaning& the summons of … Continue reading

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some good days

post-post boosterism undone a hapless haptic shadowinfinite dashed linesfunk seeps in through puncture holeswon the night and lost ourselvesgloom at the peripheriesas fireflies streak the darkness the darkness harkens headfulsof childhood disjecta loosedour voices freeze in the nightsound iced in … Continue reading

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upon us all

Night Sky Electric I hear the prattle of death’s rattle as it searches for its corpse. It does not come for me tonight, but its search is in earnest. I can hear the effort in its breath and the lead … Continue reading

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i say nothing

Aggrieved and Antic Three astonishments shy of a high-strung melodrama I flickered and boasted about my existential moodiness. I was three compositions  short of a wartime screenplay and much too invested in haunting atmospheres. I craved numerous occult tropes of … Continue reading

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