88. target-rich environment

(via audiovisual-dept on tumblr)

"...Sherlock composing a monograph on the ash of all known sorts of cigars and with this ash as with a talisman progressing through a crystal labyrinth of possible deductions to the one radiant conclusion." --V Nabokov, The Luzhin Defense (tr Scammell, 1964)

"The only really good news is that the river’s not flowing backwards any more."

winter
as they call it
by the old calendar
going · but hot & cold still play
their tag

tag
ullage
versts ago
written on soap
xenodochium
you would say it's dying
zero-sum theologies
are prey to those bleak metaphors
because who else is there babbles them
concrete wreckage amid · song rising t'ward
digital dropbox where i squander guesses
clasp fetters · preach stillness of insolence
bark out hymns of penury · covet
a whole night's sleep in the forest
zoobies salvaged from the pyre
you know as Making It
xiphopagus school
wielding patterns
Vogon ode
utter
tharn

sometimes butterfly
but the rest of the time a worm in the dirt

"Gordon Parks had his camera, which for him was as powerful a 'weapon' as any."