dead as a sun (day 179)

(hdesigns333 on tumblr)

Night gaunts & scuba breath.

"INCLUSION (which features only the letters in its title)

Inclusion is sonic.

Iconic illusions
soon lull us
in solo collusion.

Unconscious collisions
coin conscious conclusions,
so coil in
innocuous noons…."

--@AnthonyEtherin

AI jukebox.

"Word of the Day: PLICATILE (adj.) able to be folded" --@HaggardHawks

Rokkudaun basilisk.

Tara casts a CARAT
by mirror ALIBI,
many ices' RIGOR

the song we rise ABOVE
smacks of burning TIRES
next book of OCTET

gazes through keyhole CRANE
at rare roadkill TAPAS
thus we worse ENACT

economical TESTS
in the stunned brillig OVATE
blackshirts droll but VAPID

canyonlands Mars-APING
with that rutilant TINGE
& a shiv barely EDGED

"Just because MY blog is dead, and MOST blogs are dead, that doesn’t mean ALL blogs are dead."

"Dyfractency, n. the state of being twice broken" --@fantasticvocab

In the dusk of the dawn.

(mrtsk on tumblr)

queue snort (day 160)

(thesarahshow on tumblr)

A message from the future.

"in the rafters
even the monkey seems to want
rabbits huddle"

--@poem_exe

Churchill on reading.

feral road
a snail of Pluto
runes carved into a matrix of gneiss

i first began to cipher

i honor you in quintessential coil name
out of the blue sky
this eyrie
& its certainties that bleed

whatever feints we once chose now addictive
silhouetted in the bitter glare
or curtained chamber
where we keep our final stuff
enrollment in the exigencies of night
ev'ry-other-human-sighted dread

these abide
the dark green turgor of the Tsalal
dissolving muskeg
Miskatonic azalea
path of art
kranio kristala with its starry grout
the dead veldt
burning never far
as the dandiprat's mouse-invisible wage

flight of virus-bearing breath
smites this intricate boojum-tree hejira

transfusion from a hot ghost
mi-nokto wodwo
present in the fine sands of Ubar
shaken from my cuffs beneath the baobab
kind Moloch
messenger of rook

echoing through the tart goaf
sound of the plastic trash cans rolling in dark
parbreak wolf
simmering dozenal abductee
on the spry ubac

honor i act, Cairo Noh
canicular kiloton dimness
parting clouds

some veshch there is · does not tolerate a wall
five more months says the grackle
here in our plush cave
good to go
& none of this will ever threaten Marduk

cherish the maskless Ucalegon
cultist of specious cargo
stranger to my poem
acnestis this penultimate snow
on the grass
where dawdles some delinquent squirt of a mage
subservient to the least image
in the shrouded urn

what madness
churns in its fine alembic
streets full of cars the whole exciting charade
diving aasvogel
smokes rush in
catapult & shard music
where do we go in dim Carcosa
as tentative, as unbearable, as deep
& dying will be spiralling pearl

a reason enough
among so many fathoms of asphodel
futhark's dream

Hong Kong protest slang.

"These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria." --Thomas Ligotti

"...the mist, the pines, the turning call..."

(john inmon via liz moran on fb)

Plano rock, corona LP.

(lofishing on tumblr)

Yesterday.

"...Kneel to your bones
and cuddle your cough. Your castle's down."

--The Age of Anxiety

The mountain of death.

--for this.

Pulled out my Virginia Woolf omnibus (though I've read, like, 6 of the 8 books in it, already) & read Jacob's Room; i'd forgotten how pleasant it is to follow her meanderings & every so often come to a patch of exquisite prose poetry, like a Japanese garden that leads you on its path to a particular view.

Bye bye Dagon.

(@CrookedCosmos)

pro-death rally

(fractal5d via aestheticneons on tumblr)

Adjusting to the prophylactic life.

"sometimes I’m tired of being nice. one day your femur will be mine" --@xiaolongbot

The wonder that is Sanskrit.

three layers of ALPACA
to the silence unable-LEARNER

tell the children there's
no PARENT

as long as we all keep clicking on icons
viral reign AVERSE

in high cerulean hope dissolves like the fumes from
a CENSER

shall we dance in streets where no car moves,
tutelary ARTERY

Heritage.

(via)

ghost gun surge

"Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done." --@MobyDickatSea

Found Forest Floor.

chainsaw in this caraway
unimpervious guest

aim sonar, anosmia
fall of wilted magnolia

i discovered compound eyes
in the twilight of reason

Danny was 31.

"I started to head back to the house, but I had lost sight of it." --@aconstanthaunt

Dark jazz radio.

rota, lever, revelator

("reunion clandestina" by juan luis jardi, via)

Richer than English.

Yes, our complaints are disordered--which neither validates, nor invalidates them.

"And for the most part, as Perry Anderson observed, by the early 21st century French philosophy had gone the way of French cinema: the way of nostalgia, safe formulas, and whatever special effects could be pulled off in the absence of adequate funding."

of perished joy

"The last time the earth saw 415 parts per million of CO2 was the Pliocene era between 3 and 5 million years ago."

Nada marrow or Ramadan.

What Mongolian sounded like.

78. PAGRE, wolf 424, flower gap

(pic from ИНСАН, ЗАМАН, ИЗЛЗР by Ј. ШАМИЛОВУН [1974])

"Dreaming’s defeat we kept dreaming."

spiderverse vaporwave
"99 Tears" are the
99 names of Allah

place where the witches were
O, genie torpedos word rows.
Ode protein: ego.

quit pressin' on the ring
to get it back in true

"I think we can rule parts of the world, for a night at a time."

30. glass eye of the tiger

"...when they did a symphony of Beethoven...it would take four 78 records, but there would be one side that would be empty, but the company didn't want to put an empty side, so they would put on maybe a Rossini overture...and for years I thought the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven ended up with The William Tell Overture." --Philip Glass, qtd in: Your Song Changed My Life

Bloscrois yotir.

come be · my Shih Tzu
you won't need · jujitsu
like a raisin in the sun
i'm Radiosonde

Colombo · is baffled
the roboDobermans · are snaffled
like a raisin in the fire
i'm Belphegor

a labyrinth
familiarized
red, black, turquoise
in alternation
trail of birdseed
not missed by the birds

a smidge of coconut
a clue
the language of Thomas & Auden
in the voice of others
saying what
has this century become
their ruins
not ours · elapsed
odes pale · tourists
in the new explanation

one million fixes later
a rubble of shadows

things i never learned the shape of

"...If a person is killed while under hypnosis, will the ghost be hypnotized?"

18. social discredit

(underground dallas by david n dallas from memories of dallas on fb)

"I've labelled them Economic Growth and War, and these are the existential bad guys in the Bold as Love story. Both of them are monsters; or have become monsters. Both of them have to go."

Voronezh
& the rocks
just a nudge

Voronezh
at the fine edge
of elegy & anthrax

Voronezh
& the rocks

shadows were lengthening on the great ice plain
Tupelo hole put
wombat April with his oobleck quarto
the oblique cartel
choc'late for breakfast & a long black portent
Tupelo minefield
out of rebus magic · ray of light crawling
when he goes home loan
& the cold garage's rolled Diogenes
self in the black glass
on an icebound plain the plan in the mirror
whittles butter pile
iodine bouquet in the song of the woofus
whose loofah's entire
repertoire becomes drunk with apocalypse
nowl · about that squeak
from next week's tall installment of storying
more an I Ching fall
the run of the age futile & beautiful
picking out vistas
a systematic failure to true debate
two dogs stalking it
tarmac upon & isotonic pontiff
carousel selfie
two dead in attic addict Shangri-La Vey
oy veh Grayviron mental floss encaustic
fallout call out cult-
Chernobyl savage Taj Mahaloholic
fiction of choice blurt
certitudinous umgang gangplank plankton
straight out of Swinburne
inborn toenail aileron Quixote team
lemming Alderaan
foldeol formaldehyde idea sink
in sync with darkness
brink of daybreak camouflage logistics prank
terrifies Twitter
on the great ice plain i 'splain a crate o' stank

Deep dreamed from a drawing i made.

dukes of dyslexia

"What I learned in the desert is that there is no wilderness, there are only people without the knowledge and skills to live in certain places."

wafoo Woofus
leftover Earl Greyness
orange & blue clock tower

i leave out everything

nip, mulct clump; in.

megacryometeors

(via bruce sterling on ello)

"For this defining emotion of the Democratic self-styled 'resistance' we can borrow the Slovenian word hrepenenje: an intense, quasi-nostalgic yearning for that which has not happened."

coop ripper into
spark nada, dank raps
popper icon riot
hick made skulk

Marconi's word reaches Zeta Lupi
iron potpie crop
on Serpo the cocktail hour
is long enough to watch a double feature

Death without death, which also has its adherents,
shawabty of the farther 'stans
& Grob, a grub without issue,
& the owl of Minerva is not yet mobbed by bats

An abject lie. (via silliman)

What's my favorite neologism? After considerable reflection, i say: Paul Celan's "threadsuns" (Fadensonnen)--because it names something that needed naming (what you see when you look at a light with teary eyes), it symbolizes his post-Holocaust life (& titled one of his books), & both the English translation & the original German sound neat. Is it translated otherwise? As "twinesuns" & "fathomsuns" (because the word is also used for the nautical measure that was based on a length of rope; you can think of a shadow meaning of "suns seen through a depth of water" also)...

how to pick a planet

Belinda's petition.

3/1/4/1/5/9 palindrome:

Farm sale trifle auctioneer
if let Salem far.

pairs:

Aorta imp:
I impair Tao.

triplets:

urn arbor, crazy on yon
razor car burn

pairs again:

story war we go
armed, O do me Argo
weary worst

regular one:

Erupt, O Grail, aha!
--Hali argot pure.

I need a word between schadenfreude & stark terror.

flowers for alderaan

Robobonze.

Gab tarn, i doom Maya, dote taco,
     libel afar, on-
ward poor tamale lama troop draw
     no rafale bilo-
cate today, ammo Odin, ratbag.

quinoa latte

Deli xenon-exiled.

Palindromic streets near here: Rener, Maham...& Lenel.

Totalitopia.

"Everlastingly: the red and ratlike curios" --Brinnin

Doing an Old English font in HTML.

"The Giant Turtle Grants an Interview

How old are you, Old Silence?
....I tell time that it is.
And are you full of wonder?
....Ephemeral verities.
What most do you long for?
....No end to my retreat.
Have you affections, loves?
....I savor what I eat.
Do shellbacks talk to shells?
....Sea is a single word.
Have you some end in mind?
....No end, and no reward.
Does enterprise command you?
....I manage a good freight.
Has any counsel touched you?
....Lie low. Keep quiet. Wait.
Your days – have they a pattern?
....In the degree of night.
Has solitude a heart?
....If a circle has a center.
Do creatures covet yours?
....They knock, but seldom enter.
Have you not once perceived
....The whole wide world is yours.
I have. Excuse me. I
....Stay utterly indoors.

--ibid

"Over a decade later and it feels as though we have always been at war with genre boundaries."

under the sign of the woofus

(via @HorribleSanity)

Effinger does Wolf 359. "For the fictional Star Trek battle, see Battle of Wolf 359. For the The Outer Limits episode, see Wolf 359 (The Outer Limits)." "...this is generally considered Effinger’s worst work."

Stub, a worn row abuts.

Chrome-plated Heart.

riddlingly besides
cruel our accidental fates
the pain-struggle dwarfed
the buzz in my own head like a cicada
that knows not seasonal or unseasonal

thoroughfare gauntlet
records unlikely to stay archived
gimlet-eyed cop cars waiting
like a frog on a fallen tree
dragonfly odyssey it's not

this hospital where i was born
walking in a place without sidewalks

perijove

(via)

A rebar, curio noir, crab era.

Ravens' theory of mind.

"Mild as an awning in a mist, the face
Of mystery dies and dreams its other house."

--Brinnin

lascar riddles

"Night pulls full-fathomed in its swarming fold" --Brinnin

Zappa does Luden's.

We'd limn ill in mildew.

i kind of like this one:

white- Vale Animus 1735

1.d4 d5
2.Bf4 Nf6
3.e3 Nbd7
4.c4 c6
5.Nc3 e6
6.Bd3 dxc4
7.Bxc4 b5
8.Bd3 Bb7
9.a3 a6
10.f3 c5
11.dxc5 Nxc5
12.Bc2 Qb6
13.Nh3 Rd8
14.Qe2 Be7
15.Kf2 O-O
16.Bg5 h6
17.Bh4 Ng4+
18.fxg4 Bxh4+
19.Kf1 Bf6
20.Nf2 Qc6
21.Nfe4 Bxc3
22.Nxc3 f5
23.b4 fxg4+
24.Kg1 Na4
25.Nxa4 bxa4
26.Rc1 Qb5
27.Qxg4 Rd2
28.Qxe6+ Kh8
29.Be4 Qe2

info-golem

(tal korczak via dwayne carter on fb)

What is destroying the Earth?

Lo! did weld lewd idol.

Seymour on Kafka's Castle.

     "Mine Is a Voyage on a Cloudless Eye

Mine is a voyage on a cloudless eye
Adapted to that surface as a skate
Round which the flakes from bowsprit never fly;
Gardens so jailed with frost and salt they fight
All summer towards the waterfalls are mine,
Rivers whose smooth meandering thumbs can press
Enormous homesteads from a wilderness;
The comet's swan-like after-tow is mine.

Time comes and goes and what was never snow
Hangs like a thpousand seagulls in a hall
Of glass. O in that tinder stillness blue
Madonnas burn like lamps profane as pitch,
Philosophy's great odalisques who dwell
Sun-centered in their own phosphor. To touch
Or dream them is to fuse that greening kiss
No mouth returns, no tongue relinquishes."

--John Malcolm Brinnin

out of the dollar records

(about)

"My slow bones stretched on tide-ledge, bog, and dune..."

--Brinnin

"As Well-Known as I Deserve to Be"

Red nitro for tinder.

Nitro Function. More on Char.

"Who walked between the violet and the violet" --Eliot