lincoln in the bergdahl

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"I desperately want to show my daughter the world, yet I despair at what’s become of it, what will have become of it, by the time she understands how much we’ve lost and for what."

1.
landscape of KARST
whose sway gains traction APACE

cinderblock RADON

Rodan’s thrash in CineSCOPE
rears a fane without TENET

2.
losing’s raw GAMUT
rueful hearts cannot ATONE
sighting of a MOOSE

normalcy’s return UNSET
this little mother has TEETH

3.
of closing WISPS
of stark & sober INPUT
mansions from this SPORE

quaff the media PUREE
cannot be the last to STEER

4.
fine rain of ASHES
sun through bare branches is STARK
Tower of HANOI
the steps as these coasts ERODE

we contemplate the last SKIES

5.
giant wingèd CRABS
in whose form the world’s REMAP
ongoing, AMPLE

& our vows fangled of BALSA
melt in the air as we SPEAK

6.
horrorshow ASSET
starring in the Burgess SHALE

Armageddon SAKES
as the monsters we ELECT
in confined space grow TESTY

7.
in the ash CAPER
lit on nitro AGAVE

this random PAEAN
no plesk nor fry can EVADE

it’s our vows we must RENEW

8.
the search never FACED
in the jostle to ADORE
orbit of CONIC
narrated by ERICA

slow turkey much like DECAF

9.
cultivating WARTS
under threat-filled AZURE

on my last RUPEE
so many times * the soft TREAD
of bard-stealth much too SEEDY

10.
the lake’s orange VESTS
half the way there nil EQUIP
& junkie SUMMA
electric chair with TIMER
in Tvashtar a groshing SPARK

11.
telescopic SPRAT
yacht pretty good gunboat PROVE
black assassin ROBES

extraction worse to AVERT
we thought we had done with TESTS

12.
big-endian GATES
watched without the AUDIO
barbaric IDYLL

endangered like the TILDE
worn out like cheap rubber SOLES

13.
penultimate BANGS
target tied to an ABELE
wander the NEGEV
live-streamed slaughter on the GLEBE
gleams presently the SEVEN

14.
duelling VACUA
termination of AEONS

wrap in coil phone CORDS
call the myst’ry not UNDUE

luncheon with the red ASSET

15.
felt but not seen HAIRS
drinking Chartreuse is ARSON

no other ISSUE

to small revolts you must ROUSE
half looking out * nimbly STEER

16.
old crossed-off address
caring befits a RELIC
choice-fetish ELDER
gods * what shakes forth from the SIEVE
can’t-yet-figure-out-what lost SCREW

17.
otherworld DIETS
not Doric nor IONIC
blizzard ENEMA

tire pressure race the TIMER
i am old & bear the SCARS

18.
twilight on the MARSH
wounds on Liberty AGAPE
ruler with RAZOR

jet scooter Alderaan SPORT
screams vying dog-whistle HERTZ

19.
this is not the LARCH
this is not our ALOHA

insanity ROVES

why should we not follow CHEAT
choosing our ends in such HASTE

20.
having that ETHIC
doesn’t make you the clouds’ THANE

irony HAVEN

at mere survival INEPT
says two bits make fifty CENTS

21.
vestige DEISM
sundry cuckoo clocks ENSUE
ride a rogue ISLET

castle supple as SUEDE
all the bad laws you’ve METED

22.
double-ended WICKS
open another INLET

marches lonely CLONE

certificate in KENYA
short track for the train of STEAM

23.
drive three in two LANES
the helpless-feeling AGENT
pain that is NEWER

trouble yearns for ENEMA
dildo with a leather STRAP

24.
this dark house REBEL
whose lights are the more EERIE
the blindfolded BRIDE

on crucifix of EIDER
each clock with the wrong time LEERS

25.
by bad laws, by GENES
hoi polloi less than EQUAL
calls for a brisk NUDGE

in the realm of the EAGLE
prey makes those great feathers SLEEK

26.
what soothes, what will SCALD
each truth measured in CURIE
& art of ARSON

i scold the other LIONS
no matter we grow less DENSE

27.
gush through the door JAMBS
is it time this shift ABORT

"only a MOVIE"

placated by a small BRIBE
summit win however STEEP

28.
comparison LIMPS
in my public IDAHO
yield no such MANOR

book written on a cell PHONE
the sky erupts in huge SORES

29.
then impetus FADES
shaky-writer’s-hand ABODE

the children can DODGE

an environment less EDGED
someday (how?) from these sharp SEEDS

30.
the Maelstrom of FACTS
no raft of fancy AVAIL
sleep on wet CACTI

by methane lakes on TITAN
Goliath ponders a SLING

31.
t’ward injection TENSE
sings silicon ERICA

if sixes were NINES

this necropastoral SCENE
angst a little death EASES

32.
at dusk face ASHEN
esocya inlari SMILE

break out into HIVES

as the penitent ELECT
go back to their ruined NESTS

33.
perihelion’s FAULT
all the molten disks AGREE

parable URBAN
lifelong on a six-month LEASE

differ a single TENET

34.
carol in HAZAJ
drifting through a world AFIRE
& one more ZIMME
to adorn my nesh ARMOR
hurt worst by the ricochet JEERS

35.
this cliff face, sheer KARST,
has its own frank AROMA

song of the ROTOR
song of the making of SMOKE

we were destined to be TARES

36.
waiting on EURUS
or maybe Queen UHURA
karst that’s RURAL

saucer crash in the URALS
terish like homemade SALSA

37.
stark gun-sung karst

Slave revolt reenactment.

(via @CrookedCosmos)

Mt. Qaf

(pic by lanny quarles on fb)

Orchestral Halloween playlist.

1.
things we cannot CHEAT
while waiting the stars’ HALLO

our gold not ELFIN
our final songs all ALIKE

god our heroines were TONED

2.
the bitter pain STANK
bond of mortise & TENON
cathode & ANODE

a map of lightnings NODAL
as if each defeat a KNELL

3.
the sorrows of MAGMA
for the sky no ALIAS

who bells the GIANT

falling-down candle-lit MANSE
between pages one ASTER

4.
confession too WORDY
more Rotas this OPERA
clownier RERUN

if I promised I was DRUNK
no more to be well-loved YANKS

5.
the next time I LEAPT
on a mount of EMERY

the rest is AESOP

came in looking for some PROSE
we take gelt from all the TYPES

6.
songs on which I PORED
(the poetic OMEGA)
so no more their REIGN

though I’m tomato’d & EGGED
by my own taste * they’re DANDY

7.
blurry tints of PRANG
& the steered car half goes ROGUE
no bard so AGILE

nor so well furnished with NULLS
as I wend through marching GEESE

8.
a road map of thin SCARS
bleach of the largest CORAL

infirm ARENA
in which to manage my RANTS
& my green flash-cop car SLASH

9.
dark outcomes OGLED
meal of a single GUAVA
rig could be LAXER

we await the next EVENT
in our circle game of DARTS

10.
ever have PARIS
Accord * love tears us APART

red fills the RADAR

to the last live IRAQI
flesh from bones these khamsins STRIP

11.
coffee spied TEPID
as the shores of zoom ERODE
fortress not POLAR

patriarch in IDAHO
suiting up for the DEROS

12.
now use subway STRAP
deteriorating TROVE

poet fond of ROLES
any part of this AVERT

not even minor PESTS

13.
venture NASAL
bones deserted AGORA
narcolept SONIC

should the question ARISE
herbal tea with bingo LACED

14.
on the corner CADGE
as we search space ALIEN
bling * snake eyes DICED

home-made cortado * watch GEESE
blank about war not ENDED

15.
big-eyed new FACES
no Aceldamas ABASH

wrath of gray CACTI

polymer of an ESTER
hottest new trend in the SHIRE

16.
washing machine BEEPS
in cyberspace you EXERT
not that * but EERIE
simulacra with a PRICE
growing struggle just to STEER

17.
what the stars ALLOT
yet these myriad paths, LEAVE

the case for LAGER

the twilight of comb-OVERS
strange oracle seems way TERSE

18.
Blatant Beast’s BADDY...
no metric we’d all AGREE

meanwhile sky-DRAMA

philosopher might DEMUR
whether thole the coming YEARS

19.
emperor of RISKS,
each contingency INANE:
reach for SAMOA
might as well * our grassy KNOLL
just the first of umpteen SEALS

20.
gravamen is BLISS
this gyring, pustulent LIGHT,
styrofoam IGLOO

all inquirent can be SHOWN
news that fits on one flat STONE

21. hasyan yecya NESTS
that fetch a little EXTRA

but vellocet STAID

i return to your sweet TRILL
obols rejected, SADLY

22.
suicide by PATCH
utterly TralfamADORE

whale-iv’ry TOWER

see what adopting the CREED
of pirates does to cranched HERDS

23.
a terrier GRABS

someday Liberty RELIT
not by wish ALONE
nor cyber-slash-soma BINGE
but Reason’s cinnamon STEED

24.
don’t know here’s HADES
of Grosz’s clowns * turned AGENT
yellow laughter DENSE
in the antics that ENSUE
one must have cobwebs of STEEL

25.
river of blood, DIRT
demarcates, INERT
base of this REVUE

the parable is TRUER
as the will to reap is STERN

26.
catalog of LARDS
galaxy’s dim arms ADORE
another ROYAL
another language you can DRAWL

catch the only thing that SELLS

27.
mind vellocet RUSTS
en route to grokking ULTRA
generic is STEAL
dratsing our liquescent TRAIT
with residue rust-SALTY

28.
otchkies claim AMISS
which the devil’s joke makes MUNCH
as said my INTRO
yarons ago climbing SCREE
wall in my ev’ryday SHOES

29.
labyrinth AMPLE
for the burrowing MORON
slaughters fit to PRINT
groupthink falls on a LONER
since my latest blog ENTRY

30.
cult in the dank LOFTS
intoxicated OWLET
follow’s Pun’s FLUTE

& each glittering TETRA
self-hooked virulent fish STEAK

31.
parable one BLABS
despair’s shovel or LADLE
pyramid AD HOC

in the antelucan BLOAT
that’s likewise twilight of SECTS

32.
pumpkin spice VALET
for the reasons shared ABOVE
science of LOSER
world cataclysm EVENS

tomorrow’s response is TERSE

33.
variance ACTED
on the party of the CLONE
fetus on TOAST
will uncivil war ENSUE
or past example DETER

34.
to name this SPASM
as we named, unnamed PLUTO

spiralled the AURAS
& whatever was at STAKE
seas parried without MOSES

35.
when the typo POSTS
played by the Brubeck OCTET
for the ears of STONE

& I do not know what TENSE
we are in * Joe Christ * Joe STEEL

36.
to whims we CATER
watch arctic forests AFIRE
O thorn TIARA
Earth will not know how we ERRED
only, she was not READY

37.
wage ebony NAILS
on this etheric ANNAL
not to fire INURE

& if fardels loom too LARGE
tell the rising main i SLEEP

38.
No boob saps a bonobo.

Les filles de illighadad.

(via behexagusthegreat on tumblr)

Okjökull Elegy

(Everett Shinn; "The Clown (No Laughs)" via)

Ofrenda.

1.
The noontide’s last GLEAM
Our doom no longer LENTO
With these songs ENDOW

Who will be left to ATONE,
Squamomandibular-MOWED?

2.
Maintenance of PACTS
In a cryptid AGORA
One makes a COVEN

Checking out early a TREND
To die amid painted SANDS

3.
The raptor’s ETHOS
Flickering shadows in TWILL
Payback is HINDU

A named battle, as of OLDEN;
Fetched back over a saddle SLUNG

4.
Tree too thin to CLIMB
Acme of capture LUNAR
Help desk INDIA
Says. Tsourris in my e-MAILS
Peals from the treetops * skirl BRASH

5.
Outrageous Wyrd-DARTS
Dodging * the reign of ADHOC

Traik like a RHINO
Through ev’ry wry or TONAL
Cantata of the sky-SCOLD

6.
Hardest of nesh TASKS
Gathers punishment ADHOC
On the point blank SHORE

A beast, like the KORAN
From the old pile a strange SCENT

7.
Sev’ral dire GASES
Ago * went where people AREN’T
Slept in a SEWER
Tunnel * shotgun ENEMA
Burning up the final STRAW

8.
Coven short one WITCH
Mink compound in IDAHO
Schnoz like a TAPIR

Down are all the carrot CHIPS
Hearing lines from eBooks HORSE

9.
Gift from Cracker JACKS
This poem is * beast ARENA
Judged by some CELEB
I never heard of * crow’s KNELL
Svelte * axeman trimmed with SABLE

10.
Keep painting those BALES
Morning, noon * secret AGENT
Caspar * vote LEVER
Doubles as an ENEMA
Of glitz * cat’s paw slaps the STRAY

11.
Gantry for a SMASH
Canned milk sweetened with MAPLE
August rain; APRIL

Triangular by the SLICE
The part that isn’t HELEN

12.
Bent beside our DESKS
Survival forlorn EXERT
Cold war SEPIA

Oil from the prey of whales KRILL
Lest this admonishment STALE

13.
Inscrutable GLASS
Is this shit even LEGAL
Rabbit less AGILE

No surgery brain SALAD
Uphill gymkhana of SLEDS

14.
Flung by sky LASSO
Without even ALOHA

Eke my best SODAS

Vaster than our desert SHARE
The future’s naff OASES

15.
End in sordor CASED
Symphony of APNEA
The sky’s subfusc SNARL

Blower’s whistle so EERIE
Over turned-to-charcoal DALES

16.
Gabriel VAPID
On pilgrimage AMINO
Dating a PINUP

To like abjections INURE
Other dwarves call me DOPEY

17.
Our Hindenberg BLIMP
Makes blarney landfall LUNAR

Stay for the INTRO
That’s made of polychrome MARLS
Culminates in deathless PROSE

18.
They call this MUSIC
I call it gears of ULTRA

To the stars boot-STRAP
The planet itself IRATE

Watch our superhero CAPES

19.
Clap- style –back DOGGY
Stans of the first red OCHRE
On old texts be GHOUL

Though I speak with tongue of GRUEL
It’s the ricochet that YELLS

20.
My all-quisling STAFF
Knows a paradox or THREE
Preferred ARENA

Irony from mishap FENDS
Nil ‘midst Barmecidal FEAST

21.
The tale in the TWIST
River-returns to the WHOLE
All the IOTAS
Mansion built on a coast SLANT

To be asked makes you TESTY

22.
Too long, too MUGGY...

The wisdom of UTERI,
Versus the GENIE
That resides in the yard GRILL

All our fool failures to YIELD

23.
Watching the WISPS
Rise * ice two ways IONIC

Service with a SNEER

No-Man’s-Land the PIETÁ
Answer written on a SCRAP

24.
Tournament of WASPS
All my pores on red ALERT

Fadeless SEPIA
Seeks the condition PRIOR

Measured in a dead-eyed STARE

25.
Battlefield TAPAS
Acetone’s dire AROMA
Affordance, POSIT

Color change phenyl AMINE
Curiosity SATED

26.
Castle made of KARST
Into the sea ALOHA
Hum of the ROTOR

In foreign furrows it SHONE
All the enmity of TARES

27.
If this is a WASTE
Say tarriance ALOHA
Skeleton SOWER

Sluggardly incipit THESE
Mackerel-sky’d & flop-EARED

28.
Combustion TACIT
In the derby to ATONE

Set parallel COUPS

Same out if garbage INPUT
The medium is TESTY

29.
Neotene LARVA
Slestered with caustic ALOES
As the drizzle ROARS

All we know is plunge & VERGE
Our will a hostile ASSET

30.
Cut him if he STAND

Pristine copy of TABOO

Murderous ABBOT

Orchestra in view a NOOSE
With dummy * else I’d DOTED

31.
Pic of homestead FIRTH
Lava beds in IDAHO
Crystal RADIO
Tremor in the ether * THICK
Darkness & the walls have HOOKS

32.
Monument of WASTE
Monkey’s extreme ALOHA
Six seventy SONES

Say I am not one of THESE
Not that defense EASES

33.
Pale glow of ARGON
Dance on lost ice * white with ROUGE
Somewhere beyond GUILE

Scryer has never OGLED
A more puzzling knot of NEEDS

34.
Ant colony WHIST
Forms ages & ages HENCE
Knotting with INCAS

The evidence plenty SCANT
If you want to be TESTY

35.
The smell of old BRASS
Invades my nascent REMAP
Solitude AMPLE
In the gunswept night * SALSA
Drifts through a vignette of SPEAR

36.
Under the RADAR
Clear yellow of AGAVE
Rubicon one DARES
Final melting not AVERT
Stacks of books one’s head RESTS

37.
Color a net near-loco.

"Hello. I have been to hell and back and hell and back and hell and back."