philosophy
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untitled (flight of birds)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 625 For Noam זיכרונה לברכה between eyes the diamond it is the role of no one’s character justice suggests a comic fainting fashion to were i birdlike or losing your affection allied to your paintings exegete developed humane patterns for roman interiors i could have mastered your movement within a week of kindness…
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Think Deeply: Read This
Adam Etinson in The New York Times takes a fascinating look in the social-mirror at the 20-year-old John Stuart Mill’s crippling crisis of purpose: “There is something comical about Mill’s self-implosion; it’s as if he had spent years looking forward to a sailing trip only to suddenly realize, upon embarkation, that he hated boats. “It is also…
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Hungry Science Fiction Poem
Wikipedia Poem, No. 608 they will open into their relationship sons and crafts projects of home again in the phaedo alone electro-paternal modeling play-doh flour water salt boric acid mineral oil lovers to him fathered him in terms of toys and taste a gift begat from identity projected paternal compound retail groups account of the…
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Bottlebells
Wikipedia Poem, No. 603 jake brake mass transportation i hear their teeth am nude amongst blood who won’t pay attention bucolic clangors suspend themselves behind the slow rise and in their teeth hear crickets terror to rise and the sound of commerce jake brake mass bottlebells* ringing some behind terror some afore some despise this…
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After Reading a Page and a Half of Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Wikipedia Poem, No. 600 the keyhole of my broad back of my ignorance were i ignorant as all the philosophers poured into a visible earthen mold be invincibly ignorant for being unreached but unreachable this condition is the key then to to verdant madness and made one less the light the winged the sacred thing…
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Couplets
Wikipedia Poem, No. 597 “The line between full personhood and complete self-objectification is whisper thin.” Nancy Bauer “Saturn looking like a confection of mint and cantaloupe.” Kim Stanley Robinson as flesh and constraints of the nonsexual and as both our chances for and common: neither mutual and young women requires what young women requires…
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Under the Raft of the Medusa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 584 outside of yourself individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented policies that will make fredonia squeal again have been internally counternally removed or undermined in recent months individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented individuals…
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“Mocha Panties” by Arielle Greenberg
You have your skinny pants that you never wear but that are the barometer. You have your fat pants that you wear more than you need to. You have your period pants that are dark and thick and forgiving and comforting. You have your period panties. I have a new resolution not to wear my…
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Apokellipsis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 573 of the nave beloved in the pun on the name calvary above cemetery often with kalwaria zebrzydowska near kraków the age of baroque nicknames roam in catholic churches imitation of sorrows john calva chews roman catholic skoal a golgotha apart roman catholic crunch two cans used for cemeteries the nave named…
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Endless Space
“I wish I could put into words the coming-round I have experienced (intellectually) the last few years. I once despised feeling as worthless, evanescent, of no “eternal significance.” I thought only of the “permanent” outside, the revolving galaxies, the endless space, and man on his tiny speck seemed meaningless. Can I now make the shift…
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