The Trophy Goes To

The one half-brick for the load-bearing column;

the trash-can lid for the perilous slalom;

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The Sheltering Chthonic

Tickle the trickling, pickling rot

mindlessly; or else solder –with fodder– that clot

— or let bleed, and proceed to relieve the disease

by attention, so end the well-pensioned distention

you’ve cuddled with smuggled-in mud.

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Memory in the Wake of the World’s Fracturing

Fault not Mnemosyne for being unreliable;

since the fissure opened she has been wandering on the outside Continue reading

The Year Behind; the Year Ahead

On the 1st of January of 2016 I made a set of resolutions about what I’d be covering here; I have, largely, failed to meet them. Continue reading

Satisfaction Murders The Motility of Anger

Here in my chair, after a full night’s sleep,

eyes ranging ‘cross shelves of my library Continue reading