a realization in port (day 174)

(@archillect)

"Who Was Mikhl Likht?"

"Trying to get his head round what it was that weighed on his tongue before that vanishing ice-world, Macfarlane turns to the cultural theorist Sianne Ngai, who suggests that ‘when shocked or grieving, we find ourselves able to speak of the experience only in “thick speech”. When speaking thickly, Ngai says, we are challenged in our usual ability to “interpret or respond”. A drastic slowdown and recursion of language occurs, a rhetorical enactment of fatigue and confusion … We speak an eddying speech, cloyed to the point of congealing’." --Mat Osmond writing at Dark Mountain

"I’m also pretty taken with the idea that we don’t know what the Golden Gate Bridge is singing about, other than it being windy."

dry bones a long time dead
a ritzier loon patina
trail of transfigured henna
squid velocipede

foe river wary · forever war
orate ruin · return
beehive · Baja eve
blackletter · bilk Altair

dry bones a long time dead speak
in the depths of cerulean
icy draft · the number draze

dead bones a long time dry touch
the heart of the wanderer
white castle · hunger occult

long bones a dead time dry dock
for the ketch of the wizard
blackletter · affirm Altair

time bones a dead dry longbow
has laughed this vector inly
i watch like · two storms folding

"Once, this place was happy, and then something went awry."

"And the sea sank to the Sea of the Dead
By the wad of blood. It would have slain the Sea of the Dead
But it would not..."

--GPT-2

"the moon is cool
shaking dust off my shoes
with tearful eyes"

--@poem_exe

(@ColeHenri via @JoyceCarolOates)