Tag Archives: Nonfiction

fifty clichés overlong

Posted on November 24, 2023 by istsfor manity

house unstable drift the globe on a pickaxeannotate your work with carcassesall palpitation and courthouses your peroration had the lithographtenderness of tenterhooks you play the gamelan tunedto the seventh tone and fiftyclichés overlong you gave thanks to the wrongideology / … Continue reading →

an ape hostage

Posted on November 23, 2023 by istsfor manity

give thanks 2 intimacies of detractionfosterlegacies of extraction the paterfamiliason a faultypaternostercompartments missinga linkfalling / referencinginfraestructualloopholesin the space / timecontinuum give thanksformanifest destinya continentto despoilthe long view of earthrevealsan ape hostageto base instinctsentient onlyin delusion we can do betterinsist on … Continue reading →

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we fail ourselves

Posted on November 19, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “The greatest threat to our species lies within us.” — Blake Crouch / Upgrade “A winged bit of Indian skyStrayed hither from its home on high.” — Alexander Posey / “The Bluebird” “There … Continue reading →

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tectonic plate subduction

Posted on November 18, 2023 by istsfor manity

dirt of the seven (haiku) continental drifttectonic plate subductionarchipelago What I’m Reading: “Never before had I seen Homo sapiens so clearly—a species, at its most fundamental level, of storytellers. Creatures who overlay story on everything, but especially their own lives, … Continue reading →

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 51

Posted on November 17, 2023 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “How seldom nowadays a floating fleet of ships is, too few are tempests of blood,crosses, snakes & fishes; our end times reveal themselves as nuclear cataclysm, flood & drought, pandemic. Once a week you pull off your … Continue reading →

do not reply

Posted on November 15, 2023 by istsfor manity

transcend your risk—no pain / only impact stop—disorientation / disconnect replicate instead—practice good / do not reply transcend What I’m Reading: “I hate them as I hate sex,the man’s mouthsealing my mouth, the man’sparalyzing body—“ — Louise Glück / “Mock … Continue reading →

fur your hilt

Posted on November 14, 2023 by istsfor manity

SNOOZE What if I show you what this mob made? She said: I was also an English-American malady. I’ll be doing airgun charades at the breakwater in a court of backwater sorbets. She said: You mean you recorded yourself talking? … Continue reading →

in a swirl

Posted on November 13, 2023 by istsfor manity

Animus My alms / my ownRecast myself as repast In a swirl of discordMy poisons / my own What I’m Reading: “The light is a grinder of knives jangling his bellsFor seven in the morning.” — Allen Grossman / “The … Continue reading →

the fairies hide

Posted on November 12, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “now the parts in our hair and our soles wither and the fairies lie half-charred at the stake” — Hans Arp / “The Swallow’s Testicle” “According to Albrecht, those suffering solastalgia feel a … Continue reading →

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 50

Posted on November 11, 2023 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “… My eye driftsto the buff belly of a hawk wheeling,as they do, in a late fall light that meltsagainst the turning oak and smeltsits leaves bronze.” — Donika Kelly / “I love you. I miss you.Please … Continue reading →

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