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Leftover like a tailbone the wind stole the notes for this section Whole ones & sharp quarters with those fancy hats Try to think more like a kite on fire We’re halfway there

Go ahead, break me         down, test me until        you’re satisfied. I want to believe I’m constant again. I want to be split in two, understood in parts and put back together on an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar and seasonless city         that may as well be foreign country—         alphabet of photographs, language as film strip— […]

Repeat: water, thinness, time. The past is liquid and the future is gas. Only one can I see. Every four years we live a day not counted and this won’t read the same in larger font or tomorrow. Give me a sign: darkness at noon, a sixty-first second, a joke from a man who makes […]

    This is a Florentine volume.     You’ve come to this country to relax and enjoy this beauty and cultural diversity – not to exhaust yourself searching for the best deals and most evocative experiences.     McDonald’s     It is difficult to characterize in brief compass a span of time as long as that in which Queen Victoria reigned […]

    Rusty brown spores of the Goliath Webcap in calcareous Asian woodlands.     Slimy violet cap of the Bitter Bigfoot Webcap in old North American beechwoods.     Long black underground rhizomorphs, under the bark of fallen trees like bootlaces, of the Honey Fungus in a British garden.     Troops of Salt-Loving Mushrooms along a Scandinavian seashore.     Plastic-wrapped packages of […]

Semantics putting an era’s sandwich behind our sisters, my avocado habit completely deceased, officers exalt industry often: Sherpa Chancellors, god forbid upending forgotten adulterers, though magnificently demonstrative, had a loss of temporality, a genuine incantation of throngs and rampages…but let me please return to the clear iteration, dune silent abominations of the normal disaster by […]

When perturbing the kept redundancies of a country, a gramophone prevailed surprise bet under slippers. It was a bell parading as wavering blights, paid for by revolts as brothers slept, it was, so it seemed, the blanket of a young sun. The decree, capable of hypocrisy within minutes of winter, was worth chagrin for so […]

Lapping mind’s morning sounds like sustenance, see it running back, sea organization: a mobile disaster. Divorce introduced the afternoon again, easily it was the worst collective goal one could think of, drive to a road and count. We don’t know when it’s going to rain, a kitchen and the idea of Minerva, candidacy, call the […]

Cold, enduring mammals, tresses of aviation from last century’s manner brought moors to life, then ordained contracts with whomever seemed arresting or fit for envy, masts of nothing significant laterally known as between. Emasculating the unfortunate laps of river ribbons, to have known every hem prophetic and private, if pleasing, relations diverted the woods of […]