why the water towers are not named

(@CrookedCosmos)

"THE ISLANDS (Anagrammed Lines)

The islands there are solemn.
Loneliness dreams the earth.
It's here laden shores lament.
Hear sea, tormented in shells."

--@AnthonyEtherin

Art inspired by Clark Ashton Smith.

things i did, but soon will do no more;
habits well-laid, but habits have their term,
     continue for awhile
     as rockets spent of fuel

the city itself scarce solider than this
persuades with what we knew & still recall
     but all of it is gone
     & all of us are done

fiery pollen

One falls into self-orthodoxies, & years of neglect do the rest.

Rain.

clarity to a point
then after that--blank mist

in which we're pent
clarity to a point

the hand vying to paint
cracks at the brink of almost

clarity to a point
then after that--blank mist

zone of irreversible strain

(newretronet on tumblr)

Ruins while you watch. (via feuilleton)

"...the incredible light nights that you get at 58 degrees north, the simmerdim as they call it in Scotland." --Sophie Grace Chappell, in: The Philosophers' Magazine

Mothra thread

quarantini PORES
maker of thwart OZONE
calf by smoke-ring ROPED
indigo ENEMA
i know you SEDAN
on the tongue road as TARTS
bees & birds ABORT
while kappas hurtle ROGUE--
noise & silence TRUCE
teabags in ransack STEEP

painted dove

(newretronet via lofiwave on tumblr)

The long tail of the Cathari.

"on the sundial
ripples with moonlight
a gift from edo"

--@poem_exe

New Otoliths.

just so i can say i did
i'll apply for this job
perilous indeed
just so i can say i did
going on two-lakh dead
to apply is to court the jibe
just so i can say i did

i'll apply for this job

scumfish

(@CrookedCosmos)

"If the weather is SCUMFISH then it is suffocatingly warm and humid." --@HaggardHawks

The Plague Givers.

Pain of being separated from painting. Pain of being separated from my other books. Pain of being separated from bookstores. From coffeehouses. From legitimate governance. Like being able to pick out the cries of individual birds in a quiet wilderness. There are so many things i didn't know i would be missing.

oldthinkers unbellyfeel woke

Golden age of Singapore music.

almost inaudible chirr
a dixie cup of milk

another life this scar
ghost labyrinth of silk

the night alive with stress
& wandering with ice

another star's to bilk
then back to endless flight

O Memnon meme

A miniature form.

threshgale chrome
graisk delve ostrich
churlish egg
bare Eloi lens
accuse while
from rooms amerce