Convince me (Porchia)

Convince me, but without convictions.  Convictions no longer convince me.

Antonio Porchia

Memory

Words are made of memory.  Even the shortest word—even "I"—is inconceivable without memory.

Now?

Is consciousness in the now
or is now in the consciousness?

Cheese flautas

Attention!

Words are attention.

Pursuant to pursuit

We pursue community for continuity.

The posture

What better way to express doubt
than in the posture of certainty?

New poems

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On time

Time is the wind
made when what moves moves.

The refusal (Zapruder)

He [Whitman] "shall not let it"—that is, the lures of the world, the intoxication—distract him from his loafing, the refusal to be tempted out of idleness, from which all his great poetry emerges.

This refusal can be difficult to sustain, because of external and internal pressures.  Yet it is only through preserving somewhere, within oneself, a refusal to be "useful" in the ways the world expects, to be "functional" or "productive" or "responsible," that one prepares to be a poet.

Matthew Zapruder, Why Poetry

Not quite

The innate is not inevitable.

Ambition to say (Nietzsche)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything

Everything is a set containing more than every thing.

"Discontinuity" & "In Ruins"

Rat's Ass Review is going to be publishing my poems Discontinuity and In Ruins. I'll post more details as I get them.

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A thing (Porchia)

Man is a thing children learn.  A childish thing.

Antonio Porchia

Not every

Not every insufficiency is a failure.