June 26
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
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June 25
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
June 24
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
June 23
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
June 21
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
June 19
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.
June 18
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 […]
June 15
rolled the windows down at Rocky Reach sweet mineral leach subtle evidence of a brief downpour low evening glow chiaroscuro foothills it never quite gets flat here and the road goes right up the rocks and the rocks come right down on the road the river vermeil and the orchards lush and the long day finally arriving
June 12
gray lake with regatta with parenthetical sails derivation of wind rain but barely maybe not even one wonders at the sudden immediacy of it all immanent and imminent– an answer unasked for raises questions
June 11
what a cavernous hole this asking why what a tenous stance this not asking strange clarity that comes at night as the room expands like it is holding its breath
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