Tag Archives: Nonfiction

your goalkeeper stilettos

Posted on February 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Stay Home Tarnish your creativity. Spout rejoinders on repeat and impress your casual acquaintances during cocktail circles. Piddle about in aimless banter. Don’t glow, but please wear your goalkeeper stilettos and your mattock face. Speak in errant arpeggios—say much: mean … Continue reading →

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fingernail has purchase

Posted on February 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

obscurantist and mud heart he presents alienation — charities, cleavages, chimeras and ramifications her winger where the finch was showered and dubbed in the larch that cannot be read today they receive a seminal matchbox in aubergine and reveries his … Continue reading →

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we have leaks

Posted on February 14, 2024 by istsfor manity

Hypnopompic Chronicle (redux) Traffic outside. Snow and garish colors swirl. Shattering glass above our heads. The cat runs from underneath the bed and stands sentry below the window. Crunching glass at the top of the window behind the blinds. A … Continue reading →

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flashes of white

Posted on February 13, 2024 by istsfor manity

Limitation Monologue (tanka•tanka•envoi) Do you drool and mouseIn unauthorized likeness?Do you firebrick, too?You wisecrack and oscillateIn diacritics and wine. You have silkworms here:Dialectics and dashes,Flashes of white limbs.What did you bury last fall?Why does this corpse sprout and bloom? I … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 54

Posted on February 12, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: Moon and starsCannot resolveThe abyss. — Dambudzo Marechera / Black Sunlight

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take the chance

Posted on February 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week We humans must revere the earth, for it is ourwell-being. Always the earth grants us what weneed. If we treat the earth with kindness, it willtreat us kindly. If we give our belief … Continue reading →

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jupiter spins faster

Posted on February 7, 2024 by istsfor manity

moon contracts (tanka + envoi) as the sun expands—and jupiter spins faster—mother moon contractsin five billion years (or so)none of this will matter much when the fiery giant eatsall in its path out to mars What I’m Reading: “The moon’s … Continue reading →

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sound of absence

Posted on February 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

reverse window (ukiah•tanka) dreamt i shot out ur window/ twinkled in the wind /ur reflection in a heap the sound of absence /sky’s a buttermilk sorrow /monotonal airgirded hemlocks central squaredin horizontal absence What I’m Reading: “Which is vaster in … Continue reading →

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detonating in 5/8

Posted on February 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

gelignite dream last night i dreamt of gelignite pealsyou spoke / my body trembledyour basso profundofogging my officebreath swirling in vapor trailsbody detonating in 5/8 time no one believed menot even you What I’m Reading: The rat who came last … Continue reading →

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begin to question

Posted on February 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week your black friend wonders if you know that, unlike you, he has to constantly monitor his speech, dress, and affect relative to his enviroment and a misreading could mean the difference between being … Continue reading →

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