Tag Archives: Quotes

has no goad

Posted on February 17, 2023 by istsfor manity

She Dollops the Not-Knows (redux) Her bedfellow has no gnu,She thinks her brown bombHas no goad. If she could dartboardNaked,Under panegyric trianglesAnd see her impersonators roasting in the sunShe would know. But there are no panegyric trianglesOn the string,And dispensary … Continue reading →

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in our blood

Posted on February 16, 2023 by istsfor manity

embodied (tanka) a strange faith we breatheinto our lives, in our bloodviolence braidedquotidian & steadfastembodied death incarnate What I’m Reading: “Do you lie thinkingThe stars in the skyWere a big mistake?” — Charles Simic / “Dear Lord”

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bouffant of divinity

Posted on February 14, 2023 by istsfor manity

Community Email @ N+1 ~ N+15 Deathbed Resistors, You may plait your ballroom gabardine backside on the balm. Please use caution not to touch the bouffant of divinity. Also, no floppy cowlicks are allowed. If we are storing your balm … Continue reading →

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face in shadow

Posted on February 13, 2023 by istsfor manity

Marginal 1.I found the box of photos & lettersyou saidplease destroy my letters 2.Particularly the ñ’sthe rr’s (the rolledr’s) and the x’sthat sound ofj’s 3.I found a shard of your umbilicalcord pressedbetween twoyellowing ballsof cotton 4.You were missingteeth in someof … Continue reading →

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vibrant violet light

Posted on February 12, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “… neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back; but I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent, and further, … Continue reading →

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fields of metastasis

Posted on February 11, 2023 by istsfor manity

ultrasound pinnacles lost in the ultrasound pinnaclesthose monochromatic ridgesstriations of organic skronk get away with your revelatory aweslide down those valleys of cancerous scree& talus fields of metastasis let us palliate the darknessfestoon it with fairy lightsthis is monstrous lustrous … Continue reading →

shadow only shadow

Posted on February 10, 2023 by istsfor manity

Here, Hear Here Here are the doldrums. Here is sickness and listlessness. Here is shadow, hear the shadow. Here is formlessness, hear the formlessness. Here the auger of an augury bores a hole— into darkness. Hear it! Here the quicksand … Continue reading →

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simplicity defies resolution

Posted on February 9, 2023 by istsfor manity

Call and Response Here comes sickness. Here comes balance and counterpoint. Here comes call and response. Here comes death. The simplicity defies resolution. What I’m Reading: “we who stay in the ruins are secureagainst enemies and friends” — Richard Shelton … Continue reading →

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don’t you see

Posted on February 8, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Sapling Purr Sometimes known as the naked monarchy purr is a truly remarkable little ravage. The only mediators that keep the tenets checking certain boxes and benighting surly apparatchiks. This is not intended to be confusing. It is incontrovertibly … Continue reading →

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to be home

Posted on February 7, 2023 by istsfor manity

Medium-Density Amorphous The longing for home—as darkness descends & sickness and death lurk at the peripheries. The new ice—the medium-density amorphous ice. The geophony of home—how the wind howls at 212 feet elevation. It’s good to be home—wherever that is. … Continue reading →

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