ethical surplus

or a qassap juried word i'm heart broken to tell
part hoping for whistness & half unable
parable
to not be blood moon crescent
driving back imaging
in a hidden song pyramid glisten
i pass

Frederick Douglass as an existentialist.

how the grinch stole apocatastasis

to invent
a sep'rate field
that speaks never a word bleak rapture
of ravens in action over wilderness
unfolding cartwheel whisper stupor herd riddlesphinx
to betray one's thought into existence to find
where it is lost & give it to the wind

kabuki warfare

(image from iceland, via liaizon wakest on fb)

"The tragedy is not only that people have lost their lives. The tragedy is the people who, in the very rich nations, have lost their humanity."

if a storm has come to stay
this blockchain of a rock-hard sibilance meaning alone is
up to cracking it
again
you go there bearing myrrh & fright-frankincense
a divine
unease streaming
from alley & hallways of the
sudden breakage, the appalling witness

the pumpkin rollers

playing football in #Idlib #Syria [via @AsaadHannaa] pic.twitter.com/gqX66G4RRL

— francesca borri (@francescaborri) April 22, 2018

Amy Winehouse Pop Rocks.

in the thrang melee
a whopping dank shepherd arose
three parts of the oobleck. A song at war with
harmony. Never grow old in witchcraft, say the
bells of Saint
Amherst, a little hard to see
during the levorotary Ogpu if a
forest fell, would
any part
of Surd-loft work unusu'lly hard at hent-thwart?

the three stigmata of palmer rockey

"Everything about a creature that comes out of a shell is dialectical." --Bachelard

"The movie suggests a Chick Tract as directed by a redneck Ed Wood—if that description doesn’t make you want to hit 'play,' I’m not sure what will."

Aelindromes set me to thinking. At last I came up another way to encode Pi in a poem, & this one is really devious. Taking the basic metric feet: 1. iamb, 2. trochee, 3. anapest, 4. dactyl, 5. amphibrach, 6. cretic, 7. antibaccius, & 8. bacchius, since there aren't fully ten usable, i have to convert the digits of pi into base-8 (with 8=0)--fortunately there are online computer programs that will do this for me-- 3.11037552421026430215142306305. So i think, what i need is a Latin Square to order the number of feet per line, vis. 4 1 5 2 3/ 2 3 4 5 1/ 3 5 2 1 4/ 1 2 3 4 5/ 5 4 1 3 2, which gies me: **-/*-/*-/*--//**-//--*/*-*/*-*/-*/-**//-*/*-// and so on. Throwing some words into this, i wrote:

In the wyrd of words there is no downfall
no despair
setbacks & digressions aplenty, waging limitless
peace in the noise
of blindfold choosing--here is where
perilous to the touch
the rainbow bridge of complete
uncanny the grand canyon & nearer
gapjil & erase switchback constant plan to remainv before now

I call the form a "koph" (or "qoph" if quantitative versification is used instead).

All the Pale Fire references in Blade Runner 2049.