Tuesday, April 1, 2025

WRITING AS A DISCIPLINE

Notice how,
day after day, the blue 
waterfall of dawn 

fearlessly 
moves to drown 
the nonpareil moon:

there is neither sorrow 
nor jubilation 
in the action—

just the dutiful execution 
of each peerless 
new tomorrow. 


Monday, March 31, 2025

GEDANKENEXPERIMENT

To a waveparticle of light 
there is no big picture;

there's 
no such thing 
as later, 

no such 
thing as night. 

It that sense, 
each photon is pure 
excitation; 

as a matter of course, 
it must exist 

in a permanent 
present, whatever 
the cost. 

There is no domain 
where it ought 
not to travel; 

where it goes is 
where it is, so 
it cannot be lost. 

In short, it composes 
the world through 
which it hurtles—

kind of like 
this thought. 


Friday, March 28, 2025

SUNK COST

Our low-key
favorite 
thing about these bodies 

is their penchant 
for falling 
far short of their ideal. 

This fetish 
for the defect—this hell 
of the self—

this giddy-
thrilled refusal 
to feel what we most need 

may seem 
like a torment—
like a bad poker hand—

but we see it 
as a palmed ace, 
as a check not yet cashed. 

This hectic grace, 
this restlessness 
is an interest 

which pays compounding 
dividends the longer 
we invest;

it's the reason 
we buy in 
again and again—

even after
the market has 
already crashed.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

PROGNOSIS

In the age 
of mechanical 
reproduction, 

consumers 
will function 
as the artists

and all those 
who dine upon 
these words 

shall be granted 
the might of an 
author intervening.

A bottled rich 
umami flavor 
overtakes the palate;

information 
saturates—suffocates 
the meaning. 


Wednesday, March 26, 2025

SUI GENERIS

Gray geese 
fly camouflaged 
by overcast skies 

as wavewater percolates 
through slate-
stippled sand. 

The use 
of this sort of thing 
to a certain stripe of mind 

is simpler 
to explain than it is 
to understand: 

most people 
want to know 
how many clouds? 

A few are much quicker 
to wonder
what kind?


Tuesday, March 25, 2025

NONPLUSSED

Origami crane
fashioned from 
a dollar bill

interrupts 
your complicity 
in the collective dream

by making 
the fantastic
real.

*

It's all going 
to work out, we say; 

it's okay
or 

it's not 
that important—as if 

to kick 
the empty soft pack 
of "it" down the road 

after flushing the cigarettes 
of "is" 
down the toilet. 

*

In the future, 
words like "nonplussed" 
mean their opposite,

and belief in the devil 
is actively shunned,

while all manner 
of heretofore 
abstract objects

now exist just
to astound.

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Stay safe. 

Stay healthy. 

Stay busy. 

Stay stunned. 


Monday, March 24, 2025

CLUE

One 
by one, tiny sun-
smitten buds 

shiver up the lilac branches—
the way 

new lines of poetry 
appear 

to ring true 

simply by virtue 
of having just 
been written.