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something off key

we fade daily (tanka trio+) dollops and dogmasthe commandment zone oil wellan outdated muleout to pasture / in the drumsomething off-key this way hums all is commercial—the conifers / the lightningsponsored by exxon /flooding brought to you by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

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of terra nullius

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

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we blend well

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

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and manifest delusion

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

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summer of smoke

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

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president of threats

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

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sea-green epistolaries

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

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how it ended

Last Day: The City & The (Veritable) Jungle The fifth, and last, day of the Ride the Hudson Valley Tour promised to be eventful — featuring a route the length of Manhattan Island from the Bronx. What I didn’t expect … Continue reading

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the division lines (2 posts below)

eye see eye can see with new vision eye can see the division linesin the atmospherethe elemental lines that dividethis particle from thatthe swirls in spacethose lines which orderthe world + universeour perspective—mineanyway eye see the invisible bullseyethe lineations in … Continue reading

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homonculus trapped beneath

Foamscaped Small sharply defined puffs—No heat, no air compressors,Gaskets, rubber seals, rubber feet—Cloud-like, a shy homunculus,Trapped beneath a 5 o’clock crowd. in this (my) neighborhood pt. 144 Day 3: Start: Stone Ridge, NYFinish: Carmel, NYMiles: 65.56 What I’m Reading: We … Continue reading

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