Correlation or causation?

Invent a lock, create a prison.

New poems

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So much

We rely so much on effect's desire to follow cause.

Easier

It is easier to forgive yourself if you look in the mirror.

A better pretending

To know is to pretend, but it's a better pretending than not knowing.

Calamities (Bukowski)

these people are not
emergencies, they are
calamities.

Charles Bukowski, from "the telephone"

Poetry is a measure

Poetry is a measure of the inaccuracy of imagery.

The mandate of poetry

The mandate of poetry is to utilize exactly the inexactitude of language.

Go

Go to the ruins to rut in the rubble.

Only for

Desperation is only for the living.

New poems

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"End of Day"

My poem "End of Day" has been accepted for the November issue of streetcake magazine. Last had a poem published there in Feburary 2018, so I'm quite pleased.

The definition of hell (Hodgson)

Yet, though I searched earnestly, I could discover nothing that I had not already seen...

Hilliam Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland

In the interval

We dwell in the interval between intervals.

The lake thinks

The lake thinks it likes the bird but only knows the shadow of the bird.

Markers

But dawn and dusk are markers of movement, not of time.

New poems

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Briefly

Civilization resists, briefly, against oblivion.

The skeleton of the seed

The skeleton of the seed is the seed of the skeleton.

We spend our lives

We spend our lives trying to compress the expanse.