saharan dust plume (day 113)

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"A humorous article from 1882 in the Dovorian...purports to report the conclusions of an antiquarian living two millennia in the future, who has researched the phenomenon of the top hat. ...The antiquarian is befuddled by the name and concludes that it must arise from the existence of an under-hat..."

"winter morning
deep in the mist
moving its wings"

--@poem_exe

"Because it’s a relatively new language, the literature written in it shows all the same kind of roughness and unsettledness and complexity that you would expect of a vernacular literature still young and in development."

soft season in the afterlife
or limbo bar that bends us low
& crying, so as not to laugh,
a fugitive from ev'ry rainbow
walks around this turquoise pool

& peers at clouds, & feels their pull

a plague spread fast by careless louts
a revolution in the works
a horse race twitter-feed relates
a slow onset of climate earthquakes
all perturb; he rounds the pool
& peers at clouds, & feels their pull

"Early on, triage just meant to sort..."

"Discover stub, weed, sludge, and ugliness" --The Ring and the Book