philosophy
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Handheld Halo (Drinks with Mitch)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 475 drunking out pretty along the hand scratching out pretty along the baptist? no is it krishna then? is it mirabai or the baptist? no it is mirabai or the untouchable one the invisible breezer perfect again not nearly impossible is it it is mirabai her not-slender wrist scratching out pretty along…
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‘Another variation of formlessness’
“Isn’t the most profound education the one that was afforded me at my childhood elementary school, the one that divides the ink sharply between thought become Letter and drive turned into splotches and blots? How will those who begin with the darkish gray on the palish gray of computer screens manage? Without the slightest inkblot?…
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Mary Ruefle
think like that no like that sniff around a burrow don’t hunt birds think like this no like this raccoons yes groundhogs yes opossum definitely yes think for yourself no not like that not the robin though nor the house sparrow here give me the controller let me have a go at it nor the…
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Two a Rhythm of the Mind
“6. Greek mathematicians did not think one was a number because the concept one did not involve number. To them, two was the first number. And the hybrid marriage of one, which was not a number, and two, which was, begot three, the second number. And from one, two, and three, all other numbers proceeded,…
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Sappho
Wikipedia Poem, No. 428 sly i the poet graciously meant to say output as in copula or contains particles and determines its simplest yet most meaningful verb twined around sappho’s esophagus the symptoms a poet’s symptoms manifest in the divorce of stratonice stratonice of syria queen of the seleucid empire from 300 bc until 294…
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Jacob Frères Paints with Blood
Wikipedia Poem, No. 425 with blood we arrive by boat in his jacob frères desk long fibrous scaly noses but the ophrys morisii on his palace portraits of his jacob frères desk are long fibrous scaly noses but the flowers on his palace portraits of his palace with blood we arrive by boat in his…
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Overwatch Widow-Enabled Ableton Overton Windowlicker
Wikipedia Poem, No. 421 slow nintendo eyes hallucinate on the tree tops of war & other manly fears fighting basslines back from the castle bulwark the soldier barks playing his muse like a hard bleak nest expelling supernatural darkness ruins spring up in the suicide forest nestle his falsetto starving else blue eyed moneymonkey plays…
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Impossible Numbers
Wikipedia Poem, No. 418 after Vijay Seshadri and numbers no matter how abstract laced together in a ceramic bowl farmost impossible an implication of angels argue about 3 green apples in an old lady’s outstretched hands the numb plain makes no sense lust in a cracked ceramic bowl clearly the old lady and the victim…
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“Half-listening is a skill”
Half-listening is a skill Half-listening is a cathedral vanitas Half-listening is a virtue Half-listening is a viscoelastic polymer Half-listening is a delight Half-listening is a 15x scale model of a tumid vulva weighing in at 6,000 lbs. Half-listening is a suffering Half-listening is a dire brutalist skull Half-listening is a patience Half-listening is a burnt…
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