November 30, 2018
November 24, 2018
November 23, 2018
Good Good, Yeah Yeah
Apple, singular and origin stories (plural)
Bent to ground, bent to the sun, bending around walls living and not
Clarifying statements, context is everything, the speed of light in a vacuum oh isn’t that clever
Define what and where and when and why, defy reason with reversals, defy gravity with belief
Everything everything everything everything you can kiss
Forget about this and that, but leave the forgettable
Grounded two by two, grateful come supper
Hidden, no more hiding, no more harassing, and hope and higher and healthy
Islands and effort and fantasy and effort and ice cream but for all the if if ifs
Bent to ground, bent to the sun, bending around walls living and not
Clarifying statements, context is everything, the speed of light in a vacuum oh isn’t that clever
Define what and where and when and why, defy reason with reversals, defy gravity with belief
Everything everything everything everything you can kiss
Forget about this and that, but leave the forgettable
Grounded two by two, grateful come supper
Hidden, no more hiding, no more harassing, and hope and higher and healthy
Islands and effort and fantasy and effort and ice cream but for all the if if ifs
Location:Thanon Maha Rat,Bangkok,Thailand
November 22, 2018
Circles in the Air, Circles in the Water
You can do it
There’s a cat that’s an Italian Boss
There’s a cat that believes in all manner of rocks
There are celestial bodies. There are!
I’m listening and processing
I have so much eating to do
There’s a cat that’s an Italian Boss
There’s a cat that believes in all manner of rocks
There are celestial bodies. There are!
I’m listening and processing
I have so much eating to do
Location:Soi Tha Tian,Bangkok,Thailand
November 20, 2018
The Drain, Dimensions, and Aloft
I’m 12 hours ahead of my my my
And nothing on purpose
Dream horses for dream power
The spread is the air is the lift
Everything is nothing is real is real
I could record what I see for you, but there would be problems
I’m a problem, you’re a problem
There’s a difference between asymmetry and imbalance and why worry the speed of light in a vacuum if nobody can live there
Sure all those cute little bears, but they are resting
And beads dragging against the bottom of the sea
And transformation on top of transformation of top of transformation
I see your skin, and I say yes
I say all these things differently
I say all these thing new
Somewhere I’m waking up if you saved me in time
And nothing on purpose
Dream horses for dream power
The spread is the air is the lift
Everything is nothing is real is real
I could record what I see for you, but there would be problems
I’m a problem, you’re a problem
There’s a difference between asymmetry and imbalance and why worry the speed of light in a vacuum if nobody can live there
Sure all those cute little bears, but they are resting
And beads dragging against the bottom of the sea
And transformation on top of transformation of top of transformation
I see your skin, and I say yes
I say all these things differently
I say all these thing new
Somewhere I’m waking up if you saved me in time
November 14, 2018
This Is the Sound of the World
I thought something deep
And I thought something airy
The fourth day of realizing my body was built for Thai breakfasts
Gabriel Garcia Marquez said there were two kinds of people in this world
Those that are at peace with their gut and those that aren’t
And maybe I am crossing that gulf
The language of birds here
And the language of birds where you are now
And now and now and now again
And I thought something airy
The fourth day of realizing my body was built for Thai breakfasts
Gabriel Garcia Marquez said there were two kinds of people in this world
Those that are at peace with their gut and those that aren’t
And maybe I am crossing that gulf
The language of birds here
And the language of birds where you are now
And now and now and now again
November 13, 2018
Taxi Cabs and Pop Music from Somewhere
Mopeds and motorcycles flow like water around all of us slower moving chunks of metal and rubber
Languages slide sideways and gestures make due
Where you look has always mattered and so have you
So many worlds so many lines up
Every day a day
Every star a sun or something better
Be still be still be still
Keep moving keep moving keep on
Feed it all we’ll feed it all
Languages slide sideways and gestures make due
Where you look has always mattered and so have you
So many worlds so many lines up
Every day a day
Every star a sun or something better
Be still be still be still
Keep moving keep moving keep on
Feed it all we’ll feed it all
Location:Thanon Sathon Nuea,Bangkok,Thailand
November 5, 2018
All Kinds of Countdowns
Good night, good night
Spectra, spectral, spectrum
Artistic or artificial
Clock clock hammer
Home nice bird and knight
Knife knife connect
When the moon is low and the tide tiding
Riding, tightening, tidying, lightning
Strictly struck and left to die
Left to grow by row by row
They came by boat
Spectra, spectral, spectrum
Artistic or artificial
Clock clock hammer
Home nice bird and knight
Knife knife connect
When the moon is low and the tide tiding
Riding, tightening, tidying, lightning
Strictly struck and left to die
Left to grow by row by row
They came by boat
Location:S Morris St,Oxford,United States
October 5, 2018
Chew Up the Miles
All these words, a rush of air
All these hours and all these that which what
All the souls, look at the people
What what what’s up when
What what what whether you like it
What will will what will
Call upon your people
Friends, foils, fortresses
The festered pour forth
Five senses become six become seven
You become you become bigger
Once there wasn’t a moon, they say
Do you believe it?
Once there wasn’t time or space, and then there was
And we don’t have to agree how that came to be
So many intersections and overlaps and working togethers
So many getting ons and getting alongs and getting goings
The speed of light is what it is
But only in a vacuum
Who wants any of that
All these hours and all these that which what
All the souls, look at the people
What what what’s up when
What what what whether you like it
What will will what will
Call upon your people
Friends, foils, fortresses
The festered pour forth
Five senses become six become seven
You become you become bigger
Once there wasn’t a moon, they say
Do you believe it?
Once there wasn’t time or space, and then there was
And we don’t have to agree how that came to be
So many intersections and overlaps and working togethers
So many getting ons and getting alongs and getting goings
The speed of light is what it is
But only in a vacuum
Who wants any of that
September 30, 2018
September 27, 2018
Cottoned Pressure
Packed tight a cotton pressure
Mouth pink mouth insulation
Tension calls a line
This this volume and container and contents
Continents call
Callous calls
Cats on a bed
Birds, et cetera
The river before the tea
The mystic and the mystic’s pants
Will be will be
Mouth pink mouth insulation
Tension calls a line
This this volume and container and contents
Continents call
Callous calls
Cats on a bed
Birds, et cetera
The river before the tea
The mystic and the mystic’s pants
Will be will be
September 24, 2018
You Can’t Play Them All
Like catch and release
Like Python is a language
Like all the boats and all the people
Like a pickup truck rigged with an awkward load
Like a housecat most times
What melts or breaks or banks or brands
And so
Like Python is a language
Like all the boats and all the people
Like a pickup truck rigged with an awkward load
Like a housecat most times
What melts or breaks or banks or brands
And so
Because the Night Belongs
Can an aging robot shake off rust?
Ashes walking backwards and the sunlight
What’s worth what weighs what’s wending while
The shadows descend on that childhood memory
All the holes filling up with all the water
Grind it to grout
Grieve
Eat better and again
Eat better
Ashes walking backwards and the sunlight
What’s worth what weighs what’s wending while
The shadows descend on that childhood memory
All the holes filling up with all the water
Grind it to grout
Grieve
Eat better and again
Eat better
August 23, 2018
Where Do All Our Summer Jams Go When Summer Is Gone
It felt like September out there today
Don’t get me wrong
September is my favorite month
Don’t get me wrong
September is my favorite month
August 6, 2018
July 16, 2018
I’m a Fool for Your
Empty words and fading evenings
The places we find
Found and foundering and foundries
Sound sundries sever sounding
Subdued sunsets and lounges
Coast to coast to coast
Everything downhill
Everything solar-powered and wind-powered
Chimes and jetties and jetsam
Same same same
Simpers
The places we find
Found and foundering and foundries
Sound sundries sever sounding
Subdued sunsets and lounges
Coast to coast to coast
Everything downhill
Everything solar-powered and wind-powered
Chimes and jetties and jetsam
Same same same
Simpers
June 20, 2018
I WANT TO BE HOOOOOOOME
I was born on a naval airbase in Falmouth, MA on the cape. My dad was a Marine. You always are a Marine when you’re a Marine until you’ve passed than then you were a Marine.
That’s like 56 miles from here, but I’m not home.
I lived on South Weymouth Naval Airbase, also on Mass, from 2 to like 5 — I’m too tired to Google whether that base is closed or not. I saw Close Encounters and Star Wars there. My mom got this cool turkey trophy for bowling a turkey in her league. A kid bit me in the eye and got held back from kindergarten — I pushed him off the top of the jungle gym when he bit me. The Blizzard of 76 was amazing. I went under a moving car riding on a skateboard on my belly. My mom’s friend gave me my first drag of a cigarette. I survived both of these.
Then we were in East Bridgewater until I was 11 or 12. I had some good friends there — and actually stayed with one of them for the summer past when we moved to Virginia.
I lived in Sterling, VA until I went to college. High school was high school and I spent a lot of time going between crowds, avoiding violence and trying to get with the ladies. Moderate success on all fronts. I wrestled in high school and developed this big thick neck in the process that would atrophy over four years of college.
I’m too worn out today to see all this through, but suffice to say Home is a weird and complicated thing for me.
After 15 years, maybe Baltimore is the first hometown I’ve ever felt. Maybe not.
See you soon.
That’s like 56 miles from here, but I’m not home.
I lived on South Weymouth Naval Airbase, also on Mass, from 2 to like 5 — I’m too tired to Google whether that base is closed or not. I saw Close Encounters and Star Wars there. My mom got this cool turkey trophy for bowling a turkey in her league. A kid bit me in the eye and got held back from kindergarten — I pushed him off the top of the jungle gym when he bit me. The Blizzard of 76 was amazing. I went under a moving car riding on a skateboard on my belly. My mom’s friend gave me my first drag of a cigarette. I survived both of these.
Then we were in East Bridgewater until I was 11 or 12. I had some good friends there — and actually stayed with one of them for the summer past when we moved to Virginia.
I lived in Sterling, VA until I went to college. High school was high school and I spent a lot of time going between crowds, avoiding violence and trying to get with the ladies. Moderate success on all fronts. I wrestled in high school and developed this big thick neck in the process that would atrophy over four years of college.
I’m too worn out today to see all this through, but suffice to say Home is a weird and complicated thing for me.
After 15 years, maybe Baltimore is the first hometown I’ve ever felt. Maybe not.
See you soon.
Location:Dartmouth St,Boston,United States
June 19, 2018
The Murmur Indoors
Like dust and corners
A draft, your skin, the people that came after
Softly treading prior-trampled undergrowth
The silent work of sheep in pasture
The path stars etch into the sky
Everywhere, eyelids
A draft, your skin, the people that came after
Softly treading prior-trampled undergrowth
The silent work of sheep in pasture
The path stars etch into the sky
Everywhere, eyelids
June 5, 2018
June 2, 2018
Thirteen Is on the Way to Twelve
Colors change from time to place
Falling asleep is just something you gotta do
Lichen to ferns to trees to grass both like and unlike the way Spring becomes Summer
Like unlike dislike dormant
We place are heads so many places, damn
All the things you hide until some day it just doesn’t matter
All the things in plain sight and all the planes and more
You feel time slipping away, but that’s a trick
You are here. You are here. You are here
Falling asleep is just something you gotta do
Lichen to ferns to trees to grass both like and unlike the way Spring becomes Summer
Like unlike dislike dormant
We place are heads so many places, damn
All the things you hide until some day it just doesn’t matter
All the things in plain sight and all the planes and more
You feel time slipping away, but that’s a trick
You are here. You are here. You are here
Location:W 36th St,Baltimore,United States
May 30, 2018
You Can’t Always Get 75% of What You Want
Wombats on Otter Day
And Squirrel Appreciation Day a distant memory that’s getting distanter and distanter like snowy sidewalks and icicles on overhangs
That hats you wear and the days you pass
If you want to be a knight you gotta get used to being a subject a good long while
Roads come in all shapes and sizes
More people wonder more things about neutron stars that you would’a thought
But as we’ve noted, the theme of 2018 is 2018
And the penalties will ever be inconsistent
And Squirrel Appreciation Day a distant memory that’s getting distanter and distanter like snowy sidewalks and icicles on overhangs
That hats you wear and the days you pass
If you want to be a knight you gotta get used to being a subject a good long while
Roads come in all shapes and sizes
More people wonder more things about neutron stars that you would’a thought
But as we’ve noted, the theme of 2018 is 2018
And the penalties will ever be inconsistent
May 24, 2018
Darker Matter
Dark matter darker
Mad matters, matted, material
Everything comes apart
Everything wants the middle
Wants the tired
Wants the unburdened
Everything everything
On empty
Mad matters, matted, material
Everything comes apart
Everything wants the middle
Wants the tired
Wants the unburdened
Everything everything
On empty
May 14, 2018
May 10, 2018
Let It Be
Far, far cry, far away cry
Into the corner, the distance, the dwelled in
Desertion deserving no one
Know how nothing nothing now
Again before begat beginnings
The head of a pin, the last pin, leverage
Bread rises, everything rises, everything
How grass becomes straw
How a forest becomes a meadow
How mountains are born
How answers become questions
Into the corner, the distance, the dwelled in
Desertion deserving no one
Know how nothing nothing now
Again before begat beginnings
The head of a pin, the last pin, leverage
Bread rises, everything rises, everything
How grass becomes straw
How a forest becomes a meadow
How mountains are born
How answers become questions
Location:Siden Dr,Hanover,United States
April 18, 2018
Under
Under over again again
Somewhere someone’s gonna hang themselves up on a lip and lose their board
Somewhere someone’s gonna wind a clock that much too much
And the places where that camera shutter sound on cellphones is mandated by law
They surveil the surveillance
They milk the cows
They come up with words for different clouds and colors and sunsets
Somewhere someone’s reading a book or making a drink or making a drink and reading a book
All the things versatile
All the things that this way come
All the days and the nights
All the pains staked
Somewhere someone is hunched over a screen
Somewhere someone is learning
Somewhere someone is disappearing
Somewhere someone’s gonna hang themselves up on a lip and lose their board
Somewhere someone’s gonna wind a clock that much too much
And the places where that camera shutter sound on cellphones is mandated by law
They surveil the surveillance
They milk the cows
They come up with words for different clouds and colors and sunsets
Somewhere someone’s reading a book or making a drink or making a drink and reading a book
All the things versatile
All the things that this way come
All the days and the nights
All the pains staked
Somewhere someone is hunched over a screen
Somewhere someone is learning
Somewhere someone is disappearing
April 17, 2018
Back Back Back Back
This isn’t the day when all the things are coming
As opposed to this news piece that was playing back some wicked mudslides out in California
But like mud, like clouds on a cloudy day, like soup
When your friends throw you in the back of the boat
Half the phases of all the moons
And so the threads fray so so you go
More salads for more meals
It goes around whether you like it or not
Let it
As opposed to this news piece that was playing back some wicked mudslides out in California
But like mud, like clouds on a cloudy day, like soup
When your friends throw you in the back of the boat
Half the phases of all the moons
And so the threads fray so so you go
More salads for more meals
It goes around whether you like it or not
Let it
April 12, 2018
Find
Find your thing
Vascillate, regulate, respirate
Muscular or not
Macular, vascular, vellum
Skin skin skin
Several that sound several that safe
Pieces of wood, wingnuts
Ditches on the sides of roads
All of Canada, the whole goddamn’d thing
The things that bring us together before the thing that tear us apart
Years, altitude, levity
Languishing, longitude, leverage
Everything translated
Everything mediated
Everything present when the present just doesn’t exist the way it used to
Speed, degree, volume
Vacillate again and better
The sun’s down and we’re making the most of it
Vascillate, regulate, respirate
Muscular or not
Macular, vascular, vellum
Skin skin skin
Several that sound several that safe
Pieces of wood, wingnuts
Ditches on the sides of roads
All of Canada, the whole goddamn’d thing
The things that bring us together before the thing that tear us apart
Years, altitude, levity
Languishing, longitude, leverage
Everything translated
Everything mediated
Everything present when the present just doesn’t exist the way it used to
Speed, degree, volume
Vacillate again and better
The sun’s down and we’re making the most of it
Location:10th St,Bowie,United States
April 11, 2018
This Is Like What You Like
Give gave the Given the Giving
Bird leaf bird leaf bird
Vegetable matter, animal products, what’s more
Wince and wind and a whining hinge on a cloudy day
Save it so you can save it
Almost all
Quiet still
Bird leaf bird leaf bird
Vegetable matter, animal products, what’s more
Wince and wind and a whining hinge on a cloudy day
Save it so you can save it
Almost all
Quiet still
April 10, 2018
10:33+
Tag tag Allen take Allen all’s tag
Burn bellow bet bet belfry better best
Willing will whelm no over none now
Selling search leeching lent leavening levering levetating last
Heels, toe, heels, ball baller ballast best
Best best best best best best best
Nesting nest nestled joist joust gentry
The skies, all of them
The days, all of the Them
The nights and the eclipses and the solstices and the stays of execution in the non-moritoriumed states
Moribund mausoleum like mouse like mousse like master
Matter of fact Mayflower
Death is all around
Burn bellow bet bet belfry better best
Willing will whelm no over none now
Selling search leeching lent leavening levering levetating last
Heels, toe, heels, ball baller ballast best
Best best best best best best best
Nesting nest nestled joist joust gentry
The skies, all of them
The days, all of the Them
The nights and the eclipses and the solstices and the stays of execution in the non-moritoriumed states
Moribund mausoleum like mouse like mousse like master
Matter of fact Mayflower
Death is all around
April 9, 2018
Faces in Fog
Static, sand, waves, smoke
Smothered vs. smoldering, shouldering, shunt
Shoved and shut up shut up shut up
Centennial and saviors
Savory sauces
Scrawl my name scrawl my name
Severance and seldom and shut-eye
Cruising
Crushing
Cruft
Cursing
Caring
Caught
It’s all practice
It’s all space
It’s all stars
It’s all taste
Open the opener
Better bailed
Best be gone
Smothered vs. smoldering, shouldering, shunt
Shoved and shut up shut up shut up
Centennial and saviors
Savory sauces
Scrawl my name scrawl my name
Severance and seldom and shut-eye
Cruising
Crushing
Cruft
Cursing
Caring
Caught
It’s all practice
It’s all space
It’s all stars
It’s all taste
Open the opener
Better bailed
Best be gone
April 8, 2018
Sonnet (Because Too Much Heat Is Vibration)
Because too much heat is vibration
Transitive properties or transitions or perspective
Substitution or constitution or salvation
Where the First Things and the Last Things meet (deep in the heart of Texas)
Sidelines or sideways or similar or seldom less
The threads you pull when the pulling’s good
Fixed width vs. finer grains
But salt you make from the sea
And all manner of things that come ahead of schedule
Arrival and aviator and everything grayer
Brackish and branch and blinding
Because so much heat is inoperable
As epic as awe as mythic and falls
The bottom is still, always with us, all around
Transitive properties or transitions or perspective
Substitution or constitution or salvation
Where the First Things and the Last Things meet (deep in the heart of Texas)
Sidelines or sideways or similar or seldom less
The threads you pull when the pulling’s good
Fixed width vs. finer grains
But salt you make from the sea
And all manner of things that come ahead of schedule
Arrival and aviator and everything grayer
Brackish and branch and blinding
Because so much heat is inoperable
As epic as awe as mythic and falls
The bottom is still, always with us, all around
April 7, 2018
Whip the Horses and Make Them Stand Up
No no no
No no no no no
All you birds that were dinosaurs and your quantum eyes
All you trees that talk to each other and get shit done
All you waterbears chilling in space
All you bacteria that say fuck it all the time
All you wolves and humans with your social structures that externalize what everyone else internalizes
All you amazing
All you world
Boundaries as a moving target or a perspective or an overlay false but usually helpful but sometimes hurtful but as real as you make them
Because lies aren’t always bad
Because ants can be frozen into stasis and then come back and not just because people fuck around with them, but because nature
No no no no no
All you birds that were dinosaurs and your quantum eyes
All you trees that talk to each other and get shit done
All you waterbears chilling in space
All you bacteria that say fuck it all the time
All you wolves and humans with your social structures that externalize what everyone else internalizes
All you amazing
All you world
Boundaries as a moving target or a perspective or an overlay false but usually helpful but sometimes hurtful but as real as you make them
Because lies aren’t always bad
Because ants can be frozen into stasis and then come back and not just because people fuck around with them, but because nature
Location:Main St,Ellicott City,United States
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April 6, 2018
Turn Train Trial
Speed almost Spring and Spring technically so
So landscapes and overpasses and
So landscapes and overpasses and
Location:New Ridge Rd,Hanover,United States
April 4, 2018
Blind Bid, Buried Well
Blind well, bid well, buried well
Pinched, pliant, plowed
All manner of torn things
Turned soil, clockworks, cleverness
Some numbers are more equal than others
Or something like that
The sun sets, that’s what it does and
The sun rises, because that’s what it does
Bodies in motion, bodies at rest, it’s all bodies
Someone wakes up and they discover a new kind of radiation
Or waveforms or forever something about gravity
Bring things together so we can tear them apart
Like lead, like read, differently cleave
Clever clever clever
We’ll put some air in it
Pinched, pliant, plowed
All manner of torn things
Turned soil, clockworks, cleverness
Some numbers are more equal than others
Or something like that
The sun sets, that’s what it does and
The sun rises, because that’s what it does
Bodies in motion, bodies at rest, it’s all bodies
Someone wakes up and they discover a new kind of radiation
Or waveforms or forever something about gravity
Bring things together so we can tear them apart
Like lead, like read, differently cleave
Clever clever clever
We’ll put some air in it
April 3, 2018
Start with Dirt and Call It a Day
Start with dirt and call it a month
The times you wrap yourself in a blanket vs. the times you blanket your dreams in mud
Proximity to a heat source, a light source, self esteem
Sometimes a cut is just a cut
Rationing your radiance is no way to live
Water flows
Horizons stretch
Clouds cover
The times you wrap yourself in a blanket vs. the times you blanket your dreams in mud
Proximity to a heat source, a light source, self esteem
Sometimes a cut is just a cut
Rationing your radiance is no way to live
Water flows
Horizons stretch
Clouds cover
Location:F St NW,Washington,United States
March 25, 2018
Back On Back And
The right pant, the right heel
Healing, heaven, heft, heathered, heathen
The better the better the better the best
Let the line out and the sun saunters
Severed selfies aren’t gonna change anything this time
A sliver of sunshine
A cup of memories
A spoonful of you said it
Get it and go
Healing, heaven, heft, heathered, heathen
The better the better the better the best
Let the line out and the sun saunters
Severed selfies aren’t gonna change anything this time
A sliver of sunshine
A cup of memories
A spoonful of you said it
Get it and go
March 22, 2018
Back Back Back
Let fellow let
Lines times levers lend less
Lesser less lesser less leering leans
Liaison left enough enough now
Severed separates gone home
Bring Brant brought
Burn book becomes brag roll
Lines times levers lend less
Lesser less lesser less leering leans
Liaison left enough enough now
Severed separates gone home
Bring Brant brought
Burn book becomes brag roll
March 7, 2018
Like Memories
Skirt skirt on reject
It’s original
What do we got?
vs. It’s natural
What do we got?
Ozone layers and laser beam eyes
Colors that smear and block
Blockade and blocky
Hand over mouth
Stifle stifle stipple staid
Last of all.
It’s original
What do we got?
vs. It’s natural
What do we got?
Ozone layers and laser beam eyes
Colors that smear and block
Blockade and blocky
Hand over mouth
Stifle stifle stipple staid
Last of all.
March 4, 2018
This Morning I Had a Really Awesome Line in My Head (No Power Blues)
This morning I had a really awesome line in my head
You know where this is going
I forgot it
I was taking a hot shower after being cold without power for a couple days
And phone power being conserved I didn’t just type it into my phone, which was pennywise pound foolish for sure
It was all skeptical and near-dark but in my head it was a windup to a big “But...” on the way to how wonderful life is
But also a giant tree fell on a neighbor’s house (everyone is OK)
And now they are saying our little strip of houses won’t have power until Tuesday
But everyone else got theirs back
So I guess I can go over to George and Ann’s to charge up my phone if I have to
And the fridge is going to undergo a glorious reset when the power comes back
It’ll be good to get rid of all the crap that’s been hiding in there
But I hope all the amaros are OK
Yeah, I’m not down with the word “amari”... having that many in the fridge is bad enough
You know where this is going
I forgot it
I was taking a hot shower after being cold without power for a couple days
And phone power being conserved I didn’t just type it into my phone, which was pennywise pound foolish for sure
It was all skeptical and near-dark but in my head it was a windup to a big “But...” on the way to how wonderful life is
But also a giant tree fell on a neighbor’s house (everyone is OK)
And now they are saying our little strip of houses won’t have power until Tuesday
But everyone else got theirs back
So I guess I can go over to George and Ann’s to charge up my phone if I have to
And the fridge is going to undergo a glorious reset when the power comes back
It’ll be good to get rid of all the crap that’s been hiding in there
But I hope all the amaros are OK
Yeah, I’m not down with the word “amari”... having that many in the fridge is bad enough
January 26, 2018
Invocation (Republic)
[clear throat]
Um um
[clear throat, look around]
Center central status
Centered base
Fractured waste
Ventilated substandards when sea level just wont do
Congress congregants coffin candor
Cantilever lasting fever-favored flues
Forget it all forget it all forget
Find your foundation
Feed your foundation
All the numbers are wrong when
All the stars are wrong
Empty your head of stars
Here you go
You can have it
[smash right fist into open left palm]
Um um
[clear throat, look around]
Center central status
Centered base
Fractured waste
Ventilated substandards when sea level just wont do
Congress congregants coffin candor
Cantilever lasting fever-favored flues
Forget it all forget it all forget
Find your foundation
Feed your foundation
All the numbers are wrong when
All the stars are wrong
Empty your head of stars
Here you go
You can have it
[smash right fist into open left palm]
January 25, 2018
January 20, 2018
Incantation (Places)
[sketch / draft]
We started with triangles
Forgive the mountains, the oceans, the lees
The valleys are ours and you can have them
The windows are ours, the fountains are ours, the wind is ours
And you are the wind
Sunshine severs space everlasting
Sunshine saves sunshine safe
Sunshine sunshine seven shells shade
[a lot more writing will happen here]
We started together
We were all together
We started together
We were all one
We started with triangles
Forgive the mountains, the oceans, the lees
The valleys are ours and you can have them
The windows are ours, the fountains are ours, the wind is ours
And you are the wind
Sunshine severs space everlasting
Sunshine saves sunshine safe
Sunshine sunshine seven shells shade
[a lot more writing will happen here]
We started together
We were all together
We started together
We were all one
Location:Brinkwood Rd,Baltimore,United States
January 15, 2018
January 10, 2018
Incantation (Invitation)
I don’t know what the fuck this is for
It’s three circles
It’s twelve stars
It’s an invitation
It’s all the limbs of all the trees waving “hi” as you walk on home
And the waves to the rocks to the shore are “hey there.”
The stars, the wind in the grass, the penitent moon.
In a ditch by the side of the road you feel the turning of the Earth. Put your lips to it.
And in the place behind your teeth is the sun on its endless path around everything true.
In your heart blood moves from one chamber to another and you feel how all of space is growing
Always with you
Its arms around you tighter still
It’s three circles
It’s twelve stars
It’s an invitation
It’s all the limbs of all the trees waving “hi” as you walk on home
And the waves to the rocks to the shore are “hey there.”
The stars, the wind in the grass, the penitent moon.
In a ditch by the side of the road you feel the turning of the Earth. Put your lips to it.
And in the place behind your teeth is the sun on its endless path around everything true.
In your heart blood moves from one chamber to another and you feel how all of space is growing
Always with you
Its arms around you tighter still
January 8, 2018
Incantation (Current)
Bags of dirt
Motherfucking bags of motherfucking dirt
Austin, Texas is a sound
And Tejas and Tejas and Tejas
Remember all the birds, Virginia
A bow on the days, a string in the night
A rubberband for your fingers and something more for those ankles
There are stars and we feel them because there are stars
There are open sores and we feel them
There are bent back pages
There are motes in corners
There are trunks and trousers and trowels
There are new days and we feel them
Bags of dirt
Bags of dirt
Bags of dirt
Is it the opposite of what is clear or the thing you can’t resist? This is where you decide.
Motherfucking bags of motherfucking dirt
Austin, Texas is a sound
And Tejas and Tejas and Tejas
Remember all the birds, Virginia
A bow on the days, a string in the night
A rubberband for your fingers and something more for those ankles
There are stars and we feel them because there are stars
There are open sores and we feel them
There are bent back pages
There are motes in corners
There are trunks and trousers and trowels
There are new days and we feel them
Bags of dirt
Bags of dirt
Bags of dirt
Is it the opposite of what is clear or the thing you can’t resist? This is where you decide.
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