moral injury (day 163)

(via lofiwave on tumblr)

Asemic writing.

An alternative mapping is only useful if it includes things the regular maps leave out, or shows passages unapparent for the ordinary trekkers. When making alternative maps has become an industry, that is already a broken landscape to have to negotiate; yet for all that, a step is still a step.

The map without salesmanship does not exist.

Maximiliana.

afraid ev'ry day
& all night long afraid
one portion allowed for bread
afraid ev'ry day

the product of our poor darg
this dazzling slag
afraid ev'ry day
& all night long afraid

"I remember the dazed starling
Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago..."

Flash flood, traces left: one trace being the denial. It would be simple to distinguish metaphor from literal, but for language, which embeds every word in a web of possibilities, & a history of changing meanings.

No Nagasaki loss.

(lanny quarles on fb)