An attempt at exorcism this afternoon—
02.03.2026 00:38
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An attempt at exorcism this afternoon—
I’m grateful but wasn’t particularly thrilled with the limited nature of the answers—which don’t to my mind address the agony and the ecstasy of it all
Fresh joy from Insta
This may just be horsepucky I don’t know. But I know some awfully brilliant birders
Brilliant
But I’m not entirely sure of “self-stung.” Probably a defect in my ear.
Holy EFF
“Dowsing for Dummies!” A perfectly executed high wire act
Dreaming is free / Dreaming /
Dreaming is free—Deborah Harry, Christopher Stein
“O lye still”!
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Holy Toledo Henry. What a gift—-his and yours. Spot on
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
First appeared November 10, 1952 in the crucible of the McCarthy era
If you add an “O” before “GOP” and reverse it, you get POGO. Just saying
And “disaffected, fugacious, internalized—and welcome the way unbelonging can work to wry the eye, queer the ear”!
I love _Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation_ (Jane Donahue Eberwein) for just this reason.
Hi Shanna! 🌺🌺🌺
But the plot thickens and the real twist is in the witch—who is descended from Margaret Atwood
A story in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) features an ancestor of mine who was dying possessed by demons :)
The Mathers kill me
My image of El Lissitzky
Brilliant
Lorine Niedecker
to Cid Corman
We live in a country of massacre, shaped by a history of white-supremacist massacre, of police-and-state massacre, that rages on into the present.
Perhaps we are always, and have always been, writing after a massacre.
—Daniel Borzutzky, from _Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018_
Wonderful! Thank you
I haven’t been in touch with Shanna for many years, but will try to link to her here
“Sometimes found words are the most pure because they have nothing to do with you.”
—Ed Ruscha, quoted by Shanna Compton in an interview for her new book of collages
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