from the lungs of the anti-beige
you aren’t going to be a lampstand or a party balloon, popped or otherwise for the whole of your life you are a weather system and we’re drinking rain and baking in sun as much as we’re inside hiding from it you…
the angle of poetic approach
we seek complications in the expression some kind of digression to keep the game interesting no straight confession or decompression the data needs some window dressing we have poetry for you to eat imagination fed meat allowed to roam free it can…
to make things interesting
time has things barnacled on things that drain away the day you make commitments you wear anchors you embrace standstills looking for downhills to save you some energy avoiding climbs these are time destroying times these are no the youthful climes where…
wave of particles
things are different over time perspective shifts position drifts satori clicks things fall into places they wouldn’t before various open doors different wins and draws exposing different flaws sometimes it’s apples other times is cores discovering the hidden clause living in the…
tides and lying
we’re gathering threads for something like a conclusion in a space filled with beginnings that are coming out of warm shutdown some believe this translation will speak their language in a way the last change didn’t but they are ignoring the pattern…
in the fictional distance
living in the fictional distance poetry self defence a creative pretence to avoid being stuck in a hopeless place the angry voices are louder reason trying to box the chaos but it’s hands holding soup sand through the sibyl’s hand all that…
50 Coming And 1
The fact ideas are coming, makes me wonder about the decision on some level to pause, and the recognition of said pause, and the reapplication of the foot to the pedal. I mean, look, I know what I wrote yesterday — and…
A Bunch Of Silver Bananas
The Shakespeare Monkeys were famous, they were a very early reality engine — one that someone jokingly quantum entangled with the mind of an up and coming populist politician. They were a long way away from producing anything like Shakespeare, but the…
in you, blood magic
in you blood magic in me we are moving through ragged shadows trying to piece together light and sometimes calling it life we mistake the dark for the truth forget the spark and move from youth into the stage where age seems…
Stepping Above The Low Blows
I think this may have been one of the quietest years of my writing life. Some people got in my ear and echoed thoughts that were dangerous to forward momentum. I got to the point where the fuck you kicked in and I…