Category: Splinters

untangling what I can and recycling the rest though many lives besides ours will be folded into the algorithm

November 1, 2020

algorithm, lives, recycling
these we should get together friends saying how much you’ve changed or failed to tackle it despite the drums always from below louder now

October 25, 2020

changed, failed, friends
you saw in the last chapter the song of this species fetched a remarkably high price on the black margins now the mistake returns to take your teeth

October 18, 2020

chapter, song, species, teeth
A kite stuck and shredded in a tree that has yet to come into leaf, if you catch my meaning.

October 11, 2020

kite, leaf, tree
for which the system of blood tunnels valves and such was built though it does get loud on a summer evening after a few

September 27, 2020

blood, evening, loud, summer
through the night creaking subtitles add to the store of kitschy collectibles much like nothing in the cellar you can remember

September 6, 2020

cellar, collectibles, night, remember, subtitles
how many times have I written the letter over these barren rocks listing flowers in the year’s afternoon a dislocation of fog ferments

August 23, 2020

afternoon, flowers, fog, letter, rocks
which keeps its distance in service to a slowly unfolding melody that the sweetness of late fruit seems to say even this wind not like the wind when

August 16, 2020

fruit, melody, wind
out of the limitless well but let’s wait until after the weekend’s fun to contaminate the seed cakes of our most recent obsession

August 9, 2020

contaminate, obsession, seed cakes, weekend
why provoke the sticks and stone carcass of this lonely road trip 73% erased

August 2, 2020

carcass, erased, road trip, stone
which way are we going but don’t ask me now that the technical manual is burnt and the specimen flown to who knows what part of the mall

July 19, 2020

burnt, mall, manual, specimen
whom I’ve know too long to hate anymore though everyone’s a surgeon these days

July 12, 2020

hate, surgeon
the year like a restless sleeper grinding teeth to dust at times impatient or grateful the little garden blooms

July 5, 2020

dust, garden, grateful, impatient, sleeper, teeth, year
an oligarch by any other name relaxes by the riverbank in an elaborate disguise

June 28, 2020

disguise, oligarch, relax, river