scuffed pearls
some days it falls out of the head in rhymes some bright beads skittering across the surface of a thought other days you are dropped scuffed pearls into the feed trough hoping they are hungry who is not out in the field?…
Month: August 2019
The Border Special
He blew up the world with his notepad. Left an apology on the fridge that seemed to have survived the existential collapse, and went for a burger at the weirdly persistent fast food chain that was floating above the head of a…
Dialex
The humanoid design had been a relic for a while, just as the rocket design faded into obscurity once the majority of craft were built in space. Dialex learned to speak early on, before his voicebox was affixed, and once he had…
Writing System
I am not a big believer in rigid systems that govern how you write or what you write. I am not sure that I am against systems that facilitate more writing, but the whole need for them to be prescriptive is problematic…
integral pause
some interval pause some integral clause unmonitored flaws we try to drink clean water we try to eat healthy food as forests fall to paper mills and every new volume of poetry kills a few more environmental bills we are post-comfort dwellers…
burning violets
and all the tv casual violence replicates oppressive silence we are setting light to violets pretending that it never violates all the damaged children still the innocence greed seeks to kill where shall the overflow spill offends the nose, saps the will…
Where You Stand
He stands up front, praying mantis hands to demonstrate a quotation mark, and he holds the words of a dead writer there in an embrace that lasts longer than it should. Attention fragments and scatters like colored beads over the floor. The…
an appearance of disintegration
the appearance of disintegration is mythic and approaches me as shadows cast by lights that are knocked out by momentary error on an ordered switchboard that feigns haphazard we know that the house of cards can be packed away that the jigsaw…
Treading On The Spot, Running On Water
It is interesting what can occur in the day that makes you stop what you are doing and wonder if you have been running on the spot. Are you treading water? Running on the spot is a little less of a threat,…
break apart the creation
break apart the art with thoughts to explore what is caught in the eyeball net in the thought matrix in the word salad generator we are trying to understand ourselves stood on the shoulder of giants we made to cast shadows forward…