Tag Archives: Tanka

dystopiaville tanka dear leader unfurleda dystopian visionempty banner eyesswinging in the heartache windthis colorless cold drab day What I’m Reading: Life begins in darkness, where it belongs. There is only darkness, the natural state of all that is, so why … Continue reading →

in a vise haiku my head in a viseseventeen electroshocksa peppery taste What I’m Reading: Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? — Samuel Beckett / “Whoroscope”

falling tanka so cold i’m like afrozen iguana fallingfrom a palm tree trunk i almost look like a brancha sign of weather whiplash? What I’m Reading: You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there’s … Continue reading →

forks (ukiah • haiku • tanka) an eye asquint at weatherroam through the ruinsfrontispiece in shards anew cling to my vestmentsforks in the road are not forksmy hairshirt newly shredded you look up and smileblinded by the ecliptic —apocalyptic —you … Continue reading →

brain feed tanka i am not a boti’m not an algorithmnot a post-human — won’t wreak enormous damagenot brought to you by ai What I’m Reading: Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an … Continue reading →

decenter the I tanka flickering my eyesi will decenter the Ilike a flicker film caught in the gate / melting down /the WE — is the one thing reel What I’m Reading: i’d wolf abuela’s nopales and howl this resuscitated … Continue reading →

i squeeze an eye tanka i squeeze an eye shutto heighten the parallaxthe world looks better in this way the world askewappears to gain equipoise What I’m Reading: I am drunk. Forgive me that I couldn’t bearto see you off, … Continue reading →