Thursday, April 30, 2020

labradoodle breeder


(bernie sanders with a zither an autoharp via via ruth reifeis on fb)

Time-lapse Lyrids.

"Thine eyes lift upward to the love, that whirls" --Longfellow's Dante, Purgatorio XIX.

A happy birthday.

gummycapybara GALES
aromasplinter fervid AGENT

a roadbed salad lolls its twittering LEASE
parables ENSUE

rusted STEEL
that a salad lad's bordello HARKS

this posh ARENA
a solar oddball leads, plenilunes REPEL

a dollar loads blades of KNELL
each SALLY

Spoonful of Chlorox.


(via via anna palmer on fb)

Fire.


('Flickering mesh of/ light in the pool where no one/ ever goes swimming.')

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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

rats and graphene


(ed emshwiller via pavel hanuš‎ in retro rockets on fb)

The Martyrology.

"Once, it was said that
death is in two acts: A
cessation, with data,
and a white so static
it can eat its shadow..."

--Anthony Etherin

Living in a ghost town.

the Lyrids fell through clear skies
harshfasting fishhook
Kyanean hands of vaporwave
sage Tlaloc

it was our coelenterate Eisteddfod
to read this black hieroglyph
we reached the limit
said it was a cobweb probably

Mothra thread.


(via max nuclear on fb)

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

song of Dalgarno


(via)

"Make black pots and dark cauldrons out of Jupiter; let them love the fire just as he does. Make yourself a nice water jug out of Neptune, for as a pitcher he will always have the honor of water." --Ermoldus Nigellus, Iv.

Rumblings under the mountain.

Neptune after one orbit
ragged border to the shadow of the grass

last cruise ship on Earth
stern debut

birds, some kind of wry inconstant sough
the face that's secret

blue neon
grainy surface of a wall

The Black Speech of Mordor.


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Monday, April 27, 2020

Plano rock, corona LP.


(lofishing on tumblr)

Yesterday.

"...Kneel to your bones
and cuddle your cough. Your castle's down."

--The Age of Anxiety

The mountain of death.


--for this.

Pulled out my Virginia Woolf omnibus (though I've read, like, 6 of the 8 books in it, already) & read Jacob's Room; i'd forgotten how pleasant it is to follow her meanderings & every so often come to a patch of exquisite prose poetry, like a Japanese garden that leads you on its path to a particular view.

Bye bye Dagon.


(@CrookedCosmos)

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Sunday, April 26, 2020

poetry month


(vgjunk via neonfunk via pinkcollapse on tumblr)

Half-sandwich regimen.

"Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter." --@NeinQuarterly

Bates Motel.

coign totter
widdershinto
against angst
it costs straying
Cthugha fed
or ganch ogham

Behind @sontagdaily.


(via via darius frasure on fb)

Saturday, April 25, 2020

you won't shop here again


My ancient solar calculator.

"ohh so capybara its a dog made of coconut" --@xiaolongbot

Ancient Mariner Big Read.

all these days that are taken care of
but what happens then
fall off the world's edge?

all these days that are taken care of
teeth of the ruling class abide
through elegy & Algol

all these days that are taken care of
but what happens then

So it's finally happened.


(via)

Zoochory.

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Friday, April 24, 2020

pro-death rally


(fractal5d via aestheticneons on tumblr)

Adjusting to the prophylactic life.

"sometimes I’m tired of being nice. one day your femur will be mine" --@xiaolongbot

The wonder that is Sanskrit.

three layers of ALPACA
to the silence unable-LEARNER

tell the children there's
no PARENT

as long as we all keep clicking on icons
viral reign AVERSE

in high cerulean hope dissolves like the fumes from
a CENSER

shall we dance in streets where no car moves,
tutelary ARTERY

Heritage.

(via)

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

three weeks of the kondo


(via via lee billings)

"and in this inexpressible, demonized sky,
my machinery emits technical whistles..."

--Eshleman's Vallejo, The Complete Posthumous Poetry, "Two Yearning Children"

Neoreaction A Basilisk.


Troublemakers.

bourgeois quarantine
blinkered meaninglessness
around pool i walk
bright precarity's skald
counting up ullage
if counting's still a thing

Orphalese.


(via via patton oswalt)

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

compendium of things i like saying


(caernarfon castle via)

Ruin nation.

bughouse somehow CHESS
transcribe quick each broken HUNCH
shaped goatfoot ENVOY

Sxwaixwe down to his last SCONE
nor staid Erinnyes SHYER

Six ways America's collapse is eerily like the Soviet Union's last days.

"How long a time it was since I was here!
And yet I know not whether I have slept,
Or wandered through a dreary cavernous forest,
Struggling with monsters. 'Tis a quiet place,
And one inviting strangely to deep rest.
I have forgotten something: my whole life
Seems to have vanished from me to this hour.
There was a foe whom I should guard against;
Who is he?"

--Death's Jest-Book, IV. iii.

Villanelle bot.


(via)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

unleashing our economy


(via via feuilleton)

"...dossiers written
in lost lingos..."

--The Age of Anxiety

A brief history of robot birds. (ibid)

balmy warp
sleight amber cyst
swells dank wrap
spillage is slee
bent sing egg
the stolid ganch
imps ebb heist
frost scoriac

Confronting the default. (via @neilhimself)


(sikorsky in a sikorsky, via john hagen-brenner in retro rockets group on fb)

Monday, April 20, 2020

stepping up


(via)

"...we are not surrounded by mythology; we are surrounded by economics. The latter is a superb and confusing mimic."

Car-crushing sky of ashes
Rush at you with angry aches
And fetch isopleth away
Zoilism's orbit awry

Yaupon berry frolic terse
Tourniquet gallon blind steer
Of rapid attack & fade

Walls fester feint their heart-deaf
Nothingness we blink to deal

Being broken in half.


(via)

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Sunday, April 19, 2020

knit for victory


(via 360 visio on fb)

"...and night is nothing but a long-drawn sigh between hammer-strokes, a deep breath--you can hear it from an open window even in the heart of London." --Jacob's Room

Aramaic Psalm.

rubric: Celtic KNOT
my guts, the road's end NIGH
& frantic to OGLE

cars out front, neighbors THEY
hide their gaze of AWLS;
in the internet, WRAP

bookmiles-strider LAME
hazes & sunlight SPEW
wizard's purpose SAGS

creaking the world's AXLE
piled-up-body GLUT
our course t'ward Romefall SETS

depends on each PLEB
Krakatoa LAVA
not to splash EVER

pantry growing more BARE

"You might not expect a novel about the Thirty Years’ War to be entertaining, much less funny." (via lanny quarles on fb)

"Methinks I have outlived myself, and begin to be weary of the sun: I have shaken hands with delight in my warm blood and canicular days: I perceive I do anticipate the vices of age; the world to me is but a dream or mock show, and we all therein but pantaloons and antics, to my feverer contemplations." --Religio Medici


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Saturday, April 18, 2020

business model


--@CaucasianJames

On Grapefruit.

"Each minute of man's safety he does walk
A bridge no thicker than his frozen breath
O'er a precipitous and craggy danger
Yawning to death!
            A perilous sea it is,
'Twixt this and Jove's throne, whose tumultuous waves
Are heaped contending ghosts! There is no passing,
But by those slippery, distant stepping-stones,
Which frozen Odin trod, and Mahomet,
With victories harnessed to his crescent sledge,
And building waves of blood upon the shallow,
O'erpassed triumphant: first a pile of thrones
And broken nations, then the knees of men.
From whence, to catch the lowest root of heaven,
We must embrace the winged waist of fame,
Or nest within opinion's palmy top
'Till it has mixed its leaves with Atlas' hair,
Quicker to grow than were the men of Cadmus--"

--Beddoes, The Second Brother, III.

Song of corona. (via lanny quarles on fb)

spiralling creepyPASTA
most tart of ALOES

non-essential worker of them all
tortoise SOARS

pictures of crowds what time was that what blithe rote
each burial TERSE

will it even matter who Graywyvern knows
was a Putinist ASSET

This piece of writing began.

"...delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes." --Virginia Woolf


(via glitchphotography on tumblr)

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Friday, April 17, 2020

la splisilo


(via @CapybaraCountry)

On John Horton Conway.

"Hubert: It is a fearful and tempestuous time,
      The concave firmament, the angel's bridge
      O'er the world's day and night, is visibly
      Bowed down and bent beneath its load of thunder,
      And through the fiery fissures of the clouds
      Glistens the warfare of armed elements,
      Bellowing defiance in earth's stunned ear,
      And setting midnight on the throne of day.
Huntsman: The roar has ceased; the hush of intercalm
      Numbs with its leaden finger Echo's lips,
      And angry spirits in mid havoc pause,
      Premeditating ruin in their silence."

--Beddoes, The Brides' Tragedy

Existential crisis.

impossible offer
as the rain comes down
in the outer darkness

to the last cobweb
strung in the final urn

morning ixiptla

Powwow solo.

"...I went on to wonder if honestly one could name two living poets now as great as Tennyson and Christina Rossetti were then." --Virginia Woolf, 1929


(via visitcalifornia dot com)

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

super pink moon


Closed on account of Rabies.

"Now mercy save the peril-stricken man,
Who 'mongst his shattered canvas sits aghast
On the last sinking plank alone, and sees
The congregated monsters of the deep
For his dead messmates warring all, save one
That leers upon him with a ravenous gaze
And whets its iron tusks just at his feet:
Yet little heeds his wide and tearless eye
That, or the thunder of the mountain flood
Which Destiny commissions with his doom;
Where the wild waters rush against the sky,
Far o'er the desolate plain, his star of hope
In mockery gleams, while Death is at his side."

--The Brides' Tragedy

The death of Stalin: the graphic novel.

when ev'rything that can break has been broken
no frontier beyond
evaporated comet
Eostar chockfull · mausoleum of this

bleached coral
empty courtroom sacrificial flesh
in the noonday dark
heart like a polished agate

i linger in my bulletproof cabana
a decade
eyes that will never see snow

delicate tinchel
newly opened to wolves Maremma

Radicalism Begins in the Body.

wrapped in tissue
my heart
the chess pieces

--@poem_exe


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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

the closing of the holy sepulchre


(via via @archillect)

"But the heavenly father corrected [Israel] with various plagues..." --Ermoldus Nigellus (II, 150)

Not Exorcist 2. (via ruth reifeis on fb)

goodbyes that might be more
if anyone had known
& bought more soap

goodbyes that might be more
this rapture the fall of Rome
Plutonian glimmer

goodbyes that might be more
if anyone had known

Aislamiento.

"G I A N T S Q U I D

gray, immense aquanauts navigating the sea's quiet under intense darkness" --@LukeBradford01


(Trieste via 360 visio on fb)

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

LHS-2520


(newretronet via vaporwave-it on tumblr)

This is not a place.

"Angry lines mourn
Many longer ruins"

--Anthony Etherin

Priest on Sheckley.

dove, dusk, & ichneumon
& just like that, it changed

a waft from the wing of Metatron
dove, dusk, & ichneumon

some kind of cold arithmetic:
the sands · fell on Ubar

dove, dusk, & ichneumon
& just like that, it changed

A world is ending.


(via @CrookedCosmos)

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Monday, April 13, 2020

zoonotic spillover


(via via miekal and on fb)

Hexagrammum mysticum.

Every error has its army.

Portrait of the Poet as Landscape (with ntypos).

'covid wilderness'
reduced to clairvoyance
& rancid Khalwa

the deliquescent wolf
piebald in wartime
constructs his talisman

out of Pachelbel
in the star-buried crowd

"At Georgetown University, it was recently revealed, English majors may graduate without ever having read Shakespeare and Milton."


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(via @CrookedCosmos)

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coughing tiger


(@codybrown via @pattonoswalt)

History of contemporary art in Dallas.

quarantine gives BIRTH
a wasp in IDAHO
free-form RADIO

it's later than you THINK
buzzwords that have HOOKS
a sorrow full of PAILS

alarm clunk AURAL
will we be less IRATE
trimmed on heaven's LATHE

thy ruffled looks o'er-SLEEK

Pluto's heart turns to ice at night.


(via @UninterestingP4)

"...in the gap of the calendar
the newborn
Nothing
rocks him, rocks him."

--Washburn & Guillemin's Celan, 99

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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Tlönset


(a treeful of nazars, via)

Ted Chiang explains.

hyperacuory
Hamsterkäufe

topazglimmer
mercynever

Nyarlathotep
wilderness

Bunting's "Thrush".

"I myself bore a shield on my shoulder and sword at my side, but no one came to any hardship because I did so. When Pippin saw this, he laughed, marveled, and said: 'Lay down your arms, brother; it's better to stick to your writing.' " --Ermoldus Nigellus, "In Honor of Louis," in: Charlemagne and Louis the Pious (tr Thomas F X Noble, 2009), IV.


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Saturday, April 11, 2020

the jackpot


"There is a hurricane in Shanghai. It is made of crucifixes." --@MagicRealismBot

"There's really no way to describe what we're seeing."

aqua intern
inane quart
monk nectars
pro kamikaze

hsigo short
mourn Nineveh
drool wodwo
tattered glory

Trashy paintings.


(via @archillect)

Friday, April 10, 2020

100,000 body bags


"A gentle reminder from April, the cruelest month. It doesn’t want to be here either." --@NeinQuarterly

"In the abandoned city of Pripyat, as I stood at the edge of an empty Olympic-sized swimming pool, piles of dead leaves gathered at the lower ends of its sloped floor, I couldn’t help but think of Ballard, and of how much he would have relished the spectacle."

beak-faced garlicky SACHET
these stunts to which old clowns ADHERE
apotropaic club CHARMS
hammered out by the sub-HERMIT

ruffed in virtual roadkill ERMINE
arbalest-TESTER

Working from Home.


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Thursday, April 09, 2020

cytokine storm


(via)

"A professor of English literature finds out that she does not exist. The only thing that exists is an enormous golden yurt." --@MagicRealismBot

Somewhat garbled al-Arabi.

flying empty planes, CIRCA
twenty-twenty, as despairs INURE

renew RUNES
my direst CREDO

what beast fable is this trump out of AESOP
vicious on CARER

will the boneheads still ADORE
when like vampire night corona ROVES

tilted as that Dallas tower, still ERECT
nor RESTS

Graywyvern in his fastness, who puts on PANTS
to join AGORA

not that he's started his great NOVEL
promised · loneliest of TREKS

bug SALSA

For Evermor.


(@CrookedCosmos)

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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

lack of unpreparedness


(via @waltsmgr)

Interview with Karl Kempton.

"I know how you feel
the ash trees above the path
creaking together"

--Catherine Baker

The mystery of Consciousness.


"[Big Bend:] Little past Lajitas. Head about another 40 miles west, take a big left at Ojinaga and another 20 miles down Federal highway 16 and this is the view..." --Patric Davison on fb

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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

national suicide project


(via dailykos)

The Plot Calling the Karen Black.

"The full moon, now, rears with unhastening speed,
sketches the black ridge-end, slides thin lustre
downward aslant its gouged and watered scree."

--Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards of Syon, XIV.

Six more strange tales.

speak grackle
but in a known language write

through the halls of sleep
traipse, unfreed by this temporary madness

daily more verklempt, more afflicted
& what should virus cure abolish

still by habit write
Prometheus & his thorn

merle only
till the great circle close of dove deliver

raven's word but poising curse
gewgaw he would steal

ricochet away within the glinting vugg
ray only

Where to start with Alice Coltrane.


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