a cold ocean

Official witch of Los Angeles.

Found a Colson Whitehead novel on clearance that i didn't know about: APEX HIDES THE HURT. Can't recommend this highly enough! Whitehead has an allegorical mind, rare in novelists, & this reads like DeLillo except funnier (& more aware of race).

"What worlds are we creating in place of what is washed away??"

    "DECOLONIAL (from ‘Suture’)

or that i would press myself
where the Oasis, the mouth;

eat some kind of you to earth, inter a kingdom,
coldtouch my disorganization;

i am waiting, waiting in a curve
i breathe in, always, in on a silence;

i am not to greet feather-like
passing the palm of this day;

now after seeing the Æther can feel ok
o bones, o bones, o;"

--SU17 & O Mayeux