dark chocolate peppermint bark

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Joe & Allen.

back into the VATS
pterodactyls ATOP
the lost microTONE

like this our months are SPED
wrecks by snits are VIED
records for desert ISLE

suicide ELAN
in midden make a DENT
sure to eat your BRAN

it never was a RACE
wrinkles from ACNE
not once a veshch you NEED

your mome raths ABET
hist'ry of larger BORE
no survivor ERRS

the practice was the TEST

"'But the fact of the matter is,' he told us grimly, 'the environment described in these books doesn't exist anymore.' "

(via neon-wonderlands on tumblr)

the last gold rush

"qua fornace graves, qua non incude catenae?
maximus in vinclis ferri modus, ut timeas ne
vomer deficiat, ne marra et sarcula desint."

--Juv. Satire 3 (tr. Braund, 2004)

('Is there a furnace or anvil anywhere that isn't weighed down with the making of chains? Most of our iron is turned into fetters. You should be worried about a shortage of ploughshares and a dearth of mattocks and hoes.')

Alexander Ross over.

fourth PHASE
smug HYENA
under whose brisk AEGIS
this recension leaps from the SNIDE
EASEL

Cento thread.

(via @CrookedCosmos)

witch bottle

(via doctor-autobot)

"nec mihi mille iugis Campania pinguis aratur,
    nec bibit e gemma divite nostra sitis,
nec tamen inviso pectus mihi carpitur auro,
    nec mixta aera paro clade, Corinthe, tua."

--Goold's Propertius III.5 (1990)

('I own no rich soil of Campania ploughed by a thousand yoke of oxen, nor do I refresh my thirst from jewelled goblets: yet my heart is not seized by greed for hateful gold, nor collect I fused bronzes from your destruction, Corinth.')

The weirdness is coming.

ZAHIR
scent of ANISE
melting mists · vagrant HILLS
story made by kiteslipt ISLET
cloud RESTS

Third faction of the circus.

(pic by karl kempton on fb)

jocose lament

"Was its impact soporific? or hallucinatory? or hypnotic? To this day nobody knows." --Adair's Perec

Pisistratian recension.

perilious INFO
siren the unheard NEED
koolaid Boba FETE

pale these elapsed poor ODES
will thole no AGES
as period as GOTH

yet ascend ETNA
the resurrection SHAM
descent into VALE

by all trivia AWED
the skull grimace LEWD
in the sterve-tide, EDDY

Word of the Day.

the three hamlet problem

(via)

"The very fist of night hidden sun..." --miekal and

Snowden in the Labyrinth.

ACHAD,
angels of CRUME:
in this subfusc HUZUN
i thole sordor that would AMUSE
DENEB

Digital feudalism.

turkey pardon

(via)

Impeachment news roundup.

words SCALD
tippy CANOE
doubleplus seeks ANION
skull & mask exchange puzzled LOOKS
hood DENSE

"The only surviving word in our shared lexicon is ‘spidubat’."

(pic by michael puttonen on fb)

descartes and the decanate

(via)

Go news.

word CAIRN
woke APNEA
crosswords among INCAS
to get the saucer gods REACT
NASTY

Enfolded Hamlet.

(via)

thirsty land

(via sleepy-nights-zzz on tumblr)

Groombridge 34: the song. (On Youtube.)

QUIET
liquid UKASE
you should fear my IAMBS
nor dance at Plenilune ESBAT
these TESTS

Yet another Groombridge 34 video.

(via)

an undeveloped roll of film

(via doctor-autobot on tumblr)

File of Erica T Carter works.

low QUART
ticket UQBAR
the hidden stars ABOVE
most truthful when wildest he RAVES
gift TRESS

"Holidaying in countries still technically at war, however, is a relatively new phenomenon..."

(via vincentvanlove on tumblr)

solving the blog shortage

(from a hypothetical planet of 70 Ophiuchi, via)

Ophiuchans, it's time.

COHEN
or OKAPI
blithe in the sparse HAVOC
& denser noise that's this EPOCH
sans NICHE

"A great song can rally the people, but the next step is action."

"“Upon seeing Utah for the first time, Tarkovsky remarked that now he knew Americans were vulgar because they filmed westerns in a place that should only serve as backdrop to films about God.” --@fvrmvn via @LeeBillings

(pic by michelle rhea on fb)

the fancy experiment

(pic by michael puttonen on fb)

Janky Materiality.

drink stream AMEBA
the dictionary's METER

gas days of ETHYL
scrupulous style of BEYLE

end in a field in ARLES

Zahir in Borges & in Islam. (via feiuilleton) Also a book by Coelho.

(via)

satan place

(via @CrookedCosmos)

At the Existentialist Cafe.

fugitive BOSON
the plush trees filled with OCHRE
fallen at SHILO
descendants in mixed ORLON
wrangle the better NEONS

Mezangelle.

(via)

smoke gets in your otchkies

"The language problem surrounding AI is analogous to one that haunted religion in the 19th century."

charge BARBS
fear AGORA
coffee with drag race ROSIN
bare by her bach'lors stripped the BRIDE
SANER

Earth's magnetic song. (via michael simms on fb)

(via @CrookedCosmos)

angry defenders of the sky

(kowloon walled city, via)

"Latin is no longer the bedrock of education that it used to be (along with Greek, for that matter), but all the while it has remained a totemic language—attractive to religious schools, nationalists, and traditionalists alike for its implicit cultural authority, its tradition of exclusivity, power, and prestige." (via aldaily)

cloudcuckooland, its verdict: SPINAL
verbalization crafts a fine POMELO

Uqbar toured
glasspak IMPALA

remnants of the old big festooned house
emerge, a reluctance to NEATEN

so to say
if found, a removed ALLELE

if allowed, a bridge
to what comes after · groves by the workers LOANED

"Circle squarers and angle trisectors have been around for as long as the problems themselves. The ancient Greeks used the word τετραγωνιζειν (tetragonidzein), which translates 'to occupy oneself with the quadrature,' to describe those trying to solve the circle-squaring problem."

(via v. p. crow on fb)

shadow palette

Life on Mars?

wud PLEBS
fields of LILAC
odd moments that ELATE
whether conductor, cop BATON
same SCENE

"Don’t you consider it just a tad strange that the media of the nation that -- no matter the president in these years -- continues to flood the world with weaponry of just about every imaginable sort, pays remarkably little attention to that fact?"

(via)

bridge of turquoise

Order of adjectives.

fedora-capped BROW
for malformation RIPE
store always OPEN

through burning sideshows WEND
on Earth's gliding SCAB
above putrescent CORE

terror's ARIA
to boredom's rolling BEAT
scurrying IMAM

if you want to know MORE
take your ARIA
back to the realm of MEAT

M John lays it out.

(via)

traga breqat

Sometimes i think the self is nothing but a murmuration of co-ordinated noises.

Eta Carinae.

in sunlight to the Moon VASSAL
word transmissions traceless, mild, & then ACTIVE

notice in passing smashed trees
with here & there, STORES

watch radar
listen for the real wail of SIRENS

driverless flying taxis
planned here; clogs, AVENGE

Graywyvern sees them already, skyscraper
jaunts LESSEN

Podcast on Charlotte Mew. (via @maryfrancesness via @anthonyetherin)

(via)

remake stark sloth

Facebook is a creek i watch paper boats float away on; a blog is a pavilion of sand; a webpage is a shack on the beach.

The Fire Age.

grief FROST
autumn RIPER
ghost duress · stars OPINE
stay with what the whirling knife SENDS
--reft TRESS

"People sometimes ask why anyone would actively choose to listen to music that makes them feel unsettled or even scared. Although the question is a valid one, interestingly it’s a question that is rarely asked of cinema, or literature, or fine art."

(via @crookedcosmos)

mutiny in the time machine

(khiva, via)

"I have covered many cults. Some end with a bang, others with a whimper. But they invariably end. The question is how much damage they leave in their wake." --@DanRather

Lomography.

1.
not bearing a light SABER
& benevolent plastic AMIDE

in bright cold sunlight
inspect BILGE

galvanized by a poetic process
somewhat EDGED

alone with a brush
the legacy of littoral REEDS

2.
barrarang-disputed CORSE
to serenade Tomorrowland with OBOES

i lose track
of successive ROARS

day on which the graveyards count
though what did we do that you should SERVE

citadel of some looming Armageddon
repurposed ESSEN

3.
the wide Titanian MARSH
i lose int'rest as impeachment grows APACE

tornado
wields an indiscriminate RAZOR

not yet ours
not yet time to SCOOT

Graywyvern addresses his squib at
children of another HERTZ

Wubsmeed.

(via @CrookedCosmos)

before & after enjambment

Humans will sometimes listen to a cry for pity; a cry for justice, never.

"In L.A., twigs and Skrillex spent two days combing through the track’s 200 individual parts—busted strings, 808 snares, and a Bulgarian folk sample among them—to tighten everything up."

lantern tuna GAFFE
& echelon of AARON

unseasonal FROST

woe to the purulent FOSSE
three times you ask me ENTER

Gjalfr.

(via noealzii on tumblr)