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(pic by QuarrellaDeVil via)

"Now mercy save the peril-stricken man,
Who 'mongst his shattered canvas sits aghast
On the last sinking plank alone, and sees
the congregated monsters of the deep
For his dead messmates warring all, save one
That leers upon him with a ravenous gaze
And whets its iron tusks just at his feet..."

--The Brides' Tragedy

Neurochauvinist.

oolongphaeic horizon
regret like a fingerthin
ray of light crawling wrathful
earth's shadow drawing closer
mostly sharp drizzle here but
scalded riddles allow this
dance of tale with unbroken
dreaming · where is the exit
stench modest, strategy brash
woofusorial tugs it
tide of caustic unknowing
gray talent across deep blur
reaches · sands upon founded
interrobang blasfemur
calmly murder the sleep web
throne of balsa wood whisper
throne of Easter betrayal
self in seeming or aiming
thristflood gathered debris · dull
roar of yearning · thick parka
versus windchill of minus
surface with Niflheimlich
blank · Hamlet's hemlock blinking
nard
onslaught
pentagram
quartz questionmark
rumba borborygm
slooms through subfusc season
thousand-starry thesterness
silt of sought retrieval
ruing the wrong done
quiz requiem
ptyx Schicksal
ornate
noon
m cut up tumor
cut-out rum map
mum car output
a trump outcum
woofus in the ice mountains
following pastel sunshine

black sky perilous landscape
lanes shut down for the woofus

sunshine is sovereign good
orange cones equivocal

no rest here for the woofus
marooned in the ice mountains

"Icepunk has been described as 'Steampunk in an iceage.' "

15. when bubbles impinge

Hollow Earth from Ghost Box.

versts
woofus
xoanon
yesterday's yoin
zephyr out of Uz
you know the drill
xylanthrax
werewolf
vugg
      verdigris ardor
vengeance of doors sphingid
as the moon's ebb mobled
most when fnordly ghosted
condemns Phobos Deimos
dons the lie-veil's ivy
in kestrel-dive caverned
kiln
landmark
Mazohyst
ninety-nine tears
obeliscal grudge
permanent soap bubble
quisling from bully pulpit
oligarchic cull
numinous nil
man-machine
lotion
kludge
river stop for me

11. puny justice

(my grandfather's smithy. thanks, wayne ludvickson!)

"By the pampered word, by the pat printed rune" --Gene Derwood

Instabooks, meet instawoofus.

representations
of representations

figures the Void

the orders come down
& they're stupid, like all orders
could we not give one thought to our world?
"Enola Gay"
with the Xmas music
only that
sounds right
by now:
not to kill & eat but only,
negligently, to kill

3: benja debroq

"Yonder where curious people count her breaths,
Calculate how long yet the little life
Unspilt may serve their turn nor spoil the show..."

--The Ring and the Book

"A move to replace the Woofus was started in 1997 by Friends of Fair Park executive director Craig Holcomb. Over a period of five years, more than $60,000 was raised from private donors, much of at dinner parties where the guests were called upon to sing 'The Woofus Song,' the chorus of which includes the words, 'Oink, quack, neigh!' "

warm clothing in the cold
the 10 conditions for genocide

reflected in the shoppingcenter glass
leafless trees waving in a wind

stung at the Barrier-Gate of Meeting