Year: 2023

Cryptogram of Cosmic Glue (excerpt)

[…] methodically scribbling, we take for our alpha the zero point void, construct via anti-sense entangling photons, up is down & down is sideways & sideways is topwise & topwise is looking-glass-ways; : What Spirit? World Spirit!! Enduring ever, even if the land people burn out the globesphere & the dolphin people, even so, Mother Gaia, & Spider Mother, they grow a new intelligence; it is as Star Goddess made them; […]

We

We wake in the morning, or at noon, or the witching hour, rising, sick, or sleepy, or hurried. We make our preparations and take our medications, black coffee, nicotine, whiskey rocks, what have you, running and walking dogs, herding children and scooping after cats. There is no tomorrow, only this synthetic ‘morning’, whatever hour it […]

entwine well moon (v4)

disassemble your partswhat are you in there?The Jenga tower of nervy pieceschain reaction machineThe phonemes bind togetherwith fitful flowing notionsas keening winds of chatterWith no more time permitted -unscrew the hunger- and get No answer-just the ringing empty- ascending skyward, vinesentwining ‘round the moonagainst the cold of nothingShining, gazing downhurling unsought solaceThere is no promise […]

‘Uncurated’: Letter to editors@[a literary magazine].org (although I may send it to many more as this is still standard)

really think you should reconsider whether something appearing on personal blogs and social media count as ‘previously published’ and so unacceptable, like Rattle.com does. As they say: Rattle does not accept work that has been previously curated, in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media, blogs, or message boards, but cannot have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this, read “Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art.”

The Aeon Waits

[…] But demonoid spoke otherwise, saying it was time for new stories, not old / Demonoid spake thus: / “In swathes of eternal peace we sleep until we are ready / The gloaming takes on no characteristics of the dawn / The Aeon waits with bodies for us to be recreated, for we were never born / All down the aisles of eternity like a supermarket / We grow in certainty until it is time / It was ever thus and so, and shall be, despite contradiction / But see end user license agreement and mortgage terms […]

We the People [citation needed] — (4/4/2023)

— We the People [citation needed] saw through all their junk.— We saw through all their junk and we took it away from them and slapped them with it like a rubber hose— We the People [citation needed] felt satisfied but not satiated— We were here and there and everywhere, while the plotters pretended to […]

Happenstance + commentaries and updates

Happenstance Summer dreams all fly in a glitter of dustUnder drama the pile grows staleSeries of ages to walk throughSome happy, some sadSome drama piles on the sadnessAglitter the lashes flutterSome dreams grow by stagesAglitter the trauma fades inSome dreams leap by boundsA recollection drifts down the pipe, bursting into flames;Speculation rings you upA tremulous […]