Some info on stylistic influences on his 2017 book, ‘Synaptic Syntactic’, particularly a book by Juliana Spahr called Well Then There NOw. The characters’ names of ‘We all the Small Ones’ and ‘Demonoid Picotent’ were derived from Spahr’s work. Talk on the use of repetition and distorting texts using machine translations.
Category: stories
Ukraine has pronounced 11/22 as Dignity and Freedom day it seems
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1726858317803204732 a powerful speech for all the world from ukraine’s president. apparently this newly pronounced Dignity and Freedom Day is the anniversary of the 2004 and 2014 revolutions as well as the 60th anniversary of JFKs assassination. I don’t remember very much about the 2004 thing Featured photo source Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash
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 […]
“The Predator in the Darkness” reflections and research after a (possible) mountain lion encounter
I would like to say that I had an encounter with a mountain lion, but in truth, I can’t say what it was. I think the beast was within about 10 feet of me, 20 at the most, but I never saw a thing. I was sitting by a campfire, alone, in a dark forest […]
Rogue Wheels
Many types of wheels have we Cogwheels, rollerskates, sprockets Unicycles, compact discs Loops of logic, rhyme schemes Escape wheels and vortices [ – _ . . #! . . _ – ] The matrices, they do not multiply The pieces will not fit Paradoxical players split hairs [ – _ . . #! . . […]
Lost in Mist 