Tag Archives: Prose Poetry

Muted Video Feed Fugue (redux) No need to look at me while I write, she thinks—and what’s this mass of entropy floating next to me? It seems most people go off-camera for the writing bits, then so shall I, she said … Continue reading →

Deathbed Compact (redux) We vow a deathbedcompact. We sagaprototypes, classicists,& evergreens. We ordinancein & out of time. We be farcicalmasons. We ebb & floelike Greenland ice sheetsunder successive heatdomes. We sailor-skidspanner ewers. We pesosunsets in silence. We illuminepenny bardos. Weare, oui. What … Continue reading →

I am the punctum among the profuse obtuselinearities of custom —socialized behaviors notbeing my thingbut my proscription. I am the punctum that pontificates upon this day —the hypotenuse to the leftnotwithstanding — again, Iam eye. What I’m Reading: Up and … Continue reading →

we fade daily (tanka trio+) dollops and dogmasthe commandment zone oil wellan outdated muleout to pasture / in the drumsomething off-key this way hums all is commercial—the conifers / the lightningsponsored by exxon /flooding brought to you by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

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Gather your losses, oblong & indiscriminate: avocado rot,football, cracked soap dish;dropped eggshells, embryogone. Gather mutilated joy.Smelted promises. Aloft,here & now. In open air.Gather your heartbreak, wind-ing & windowless. Animalthe shadow, lurkingat the edgesof your … Continue reading →

we bl— we bleedwith alarming frequency we blisterunder the heat dome we bleatlike so many sheep we blunder+ blandish our lives away we bloatlike corpses we’ll soon be we blendwell with the earth What I’m Reading: I would have laughed, … Continue reading →

six-example drawing-room several dozen residents in 16mm fleshpray tell of inexhaustible human folly from crossbows and smokesto choral singers and amateur potters hive terminology in a six-example drawing-room youve got british east india co. teaive got ill-fitting small pox blankets … Continue reading →

Summer of Pain Summer of smoke and crunchy lungs,Be gone with you. Summer of heat domes and headstones,Scat, go away. Summer of ICE at the windshield and door,Shoot your own damn foot. Summer of tornadic sweep + blowdown destruction,Shift and … Continue reading →

Jump-Cut Check-Ins Check me out—Check me in… In the montage I ascend from the dashboard—depart on the window dressed of spaniels—and like the nude descending the staircase I’m aggrieved. For I know not where the primordial matter in the skin … Continue reading →

Bad Case of Mondegreen  Chut, man, he’s got thee upturned syllogism logic. He’s also got a bad case of the Higgs-Boson blues. He’s got the anthropocene cold shoulder, and a slight case of thee reliquary saint’s joints and bone shards flu. His … Continue reading →