today’s word is unhinged no smooth swing the door is open or blocked but that’s not what they meant meaning a tacit agreement apparently implication impermeability cast the first stone and ripple effect impermenance I said once fallacy stet a half-truth is true partially check the partiality formulate the response and reach back hurl at plate glass fourth wall and fourth estate land a blow and deflect blowback not a defect by design blood thicker […]
eerie tinge to this sunset cold and diluted a misplaced day say six pm in mid October it was summer a chill sets in the lights go off and on in the office tower golden bands the crane’s open elevator making one last run up the construction site even from here it’s clearly not tethered
With civility but forcefully an unforecast downpour weather systems, augury, mandala– return to the theme dowse in the flood tattoo rain on the roof riverbank, seawall, all constructs– a boundary is only as good as it is
hold still the x-ray tech said taping a metal ball to my skin to mark the pain to show what the human eye can’t see whole spectrums ! what hubris to say animal tongue slick with contempt as if any better as if a predator we fail from within our teeth blunted when we need them most
even sunnier finally a day without construction birdsong even in the slight morning breeze and the burbling of distant indistinct conversation non-threatening some man singing and well the sky pressed blue paper a formal invitation we graciously request your presence the gingko mumurs in assent
would rather some opaque lines on the weather but this sky is just blue featureless no purchase and this feels too heavy to be limbo
too on the nose this billboard chic predictable lines that draw the eye away from slimming food stamps like horizontal stripes this summer’s hottest trend is manufactured outrage sashay up a gangway work that image hell work on a travel visa it’s fine for you I guess white this summer’s hottest trend is cognative dissonance justify, ignore, deny, or change
Test out the rhetoric: Animal. Vermin. Infest. Inundation or inflammation, fiery little tongues that lick up kindling? The intent is visceral, in secare antennae, thorax, not of us, Kafka-esque, one day man and one day less than, mere question of taxonomy, Insecta, Pterygota, Isoptera, Blattodea, Class, Subclass, Suborder, Subhuman, Superior Orders (didn’t fly at Nuremberg). Consider the words like Solenopsii, fire ants, no, too late, like their bite: The damage is the warning.
See the dust encrusted with dry rock and you don’t think flood zone, water scouring sage brush instead of brittle wind, but it’s happened. Block ice slouches in the glass, dessert heat demostrates the facility of state change. See a lazy wheeling hawk, think gyre, gyre, getting wider– do things really fall apart? Or just slump forward in apathy? Define a hole: a lack of matter– evil is nothing but the absence of empathy. Say […]
a bird picks at gravel under the grape vines they are producing this year green-hued pearls small and bitter nothing much but grit and potential the birds won’t touch them shrieking away in a burnt out pine the violence of nature is arbitrary unlike ours familias unidas no divididas * and when they were departed behold the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying arise and take the young child and […]
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