spend my life waiting for nature to take it’s course; but nature defies without real recourse. close my eyes shut, the darkness held tight; my body in suspension, soul grasping at #midnight. open back up, scene still the same; despite all its mystical powers, I have nature to blame. #vss365

Every Saturday night my friends and I would see the #midnight movies at the Capri Theatre. Flesh Gordon, Heavy Metal, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, A Clockwork Orange… These are some reasons for Gen-Xers to be F’d up for sure ;) #vss365

Thrust into life I never asked to be but became nonetheless a minor everyday miracle given a #wondrous gift and named for a ruler of tribes who was beloved they say yet he betrayed loyal Uriah Was Bathsheba worth the cost? So much death from passion But I am no King, just a man living a life #vss365

You have been gone for a long time long enough that my little boy is nearly grown and my optimistic heart has been tempered by too much grief but not so long that I’ve forgotten the feel of your love on bad days I wrap myself in its remnants and remember what it felt like to belong #vss365 #poem

Poor yet not too proud to accept a carpet #remnant as a kind gift from a friend. She found it during her travels in Asia. I’ve never been but the carpet makes me feel like maybe I have traveled with her - to exotic sights, smells and sounds. Yes it is a magical carpet in oh so many ways. #vss365

Ever adrift a wayward soul blue atoll in clear lonely waters We created this #rift unconsciously and yet on purpose an introverts refuge in a sea of confusion not understanding the rules feeling apart. We are all islands who need ferries and bridges and boats for connection most of all love #vss365

#vss365 #rift I wish that I were wise I am not Which is no surprise I need that guiding light Which I see in so many eyes Great expectations Married to greater potentialities But in me Between my aspirations and my abilities There is an abyss I prefer to call it something smaller A tiny little rift

Nothing hurts quite like watching a #rift widen between people who once cared deeply. Life reminds us how fragile connections can be - yet how beautiful it is when hearts choose understanding over distance. May healing find its way. ❤️ #vss365

Now, on a darker note, we peer into a #rift. A quiet tear in the world, a chasm of grief carved through the purest of hearts, or a simple dispute between strangers. Some beg for forgiveness. Others carry the wound forever. Today, May 28, 2026, your #vss365 #prompt is #Rift.

#vss365 All words radiate meaning, have a half-life, and over time, will break down. The radioactive decay of words is most likely to first manifest in the bond between “D”s and “R”s. For example, sometime in the next millennium, the word “drift,” is expected to become d and #rift.

The #rift was followed by a blanketed field of silence the duration of which no one could predict. I would not let go of your ghostly hand, could not. But days and days passed with the weight of years fast going, me wondering which chord struck with such dissonance that we became deaf. #vss365

Suck squeeze bang blow engines burn from underneath maximum continuous thrust achieved with afterburners adding speed Bernoulli’s wind on titanium wings lift us at Mach 4 toward the stars thumbing a nose at #gravity we leave the troposphere behind #vss365

Dopamine is my addiction and the algos know my need serving up my predilections injected right into my feed my Ventral Tegmental Area by a #signal in my brain makes my nucleus accumbens feel tons of pleasure once again I must master my compulsions before they ruin me. Dopamine my enemy. #vss365

David Foster Wallace forever vindicated

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This article is so good. And so overdue.

I can’t believe it’s not even June yet and we’re already looking at the very real possibility of France reaching +40°C later this week. Literally hundreds of May records have already been set. Truly unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.

Dopamine is my addiction and the algos know my need serving up my predilections injected right into my feed my Ventral Tegmental Area by a #signal in my brain makes my nucleus accumbens feel tons of pleasure once again I must master my compulsions before they ruin me. Dopamine my enemy. #vss365

145.7 #vss365 #crevasse wish I could say you broke my heart in all the wrong places but that’s not true I broke my own heart in all the right places I have to break it again & forever to find sudden beauty in shattered things that is one crevasse I will never mend ▪️▪️▪️ Photo by me

I exist deep down, in the unknown, crawling, claustrophobic in the narrow crevasse dividing self from other, both inside and out, and I ask myself, what kind of place requires this much pressure? #VSS365 - Crevasse #Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #Existentialism #Identity #Consciousness #SkyPoet

145.6 #photopoetry (my photo) | #vss365 #crevasse I sometimes still walk by the old granite house where darkness dwells the crevasse between our paths now too wide for me to even pity the leprose lichen left wilting in those walls’ narrow crevices ▪️▪️▪️

Above is a relentless howl the #crevasse a refuge from the swirling gales in the dead black of night the small sliver between dark cold icy walls revealing stellar glories the flicker of the cosmos pinholes of light tiny glints on the axe blade and when the sun rises we journey on again #vss365

Why can't we live in a society where the motives of a chicken crossing the road won't be questioned?

30 minutes after the Ketamine kicked in the ocean fog appeared #immersed in an endless sea wave after emotional wave time lost meaning sweet stillness on the water floating ever gently, calmly pain fades away carrying me in a warm embrace of love and hope and feeling OK with just being me #vss365

My tiny companion on gossamer thread slinks down from above to read what I’ve said he hovers so slightly In front of my screen as if spiders can edit the copy they glean It’s #tether so slender and almost unseen and minuscule glints from tiny eyes beam my little friend from the ceiling #vss365

What is an unexamined life worth? Is it worth living if one is just existing? Is it worth dying for if one has not truly lived? Or perhaps it is better to not dwell on the past? No ruminations of what should have been. No disappointments to grieve over. Which way is the greater #betrayal? #vss365

almost everything I was promised in my youth was a lie my whole life a betrayal I know it now too late to change #vss365 #betrayal

#vss365 #haiku Now back with #intent to return from 'silence' in a new address! (Took me more than a week...)

It was never my #intent to run you into the ground exhausting your soul I spun like a crazy spider caught in my own web struggling where I should have just let go my #feral mind was racing toward what I do not know. The mind is such a crazy thing and hard to escape it’s wrath. I’m too late. #vss365

I came to say a quiet goodbye. It was never my intention to stay and watch you cry. All those years she wished and prayed. That she was brave Or that her silence was enough to save. The girl unseen. The girl who cried. The girl who always dreamed. To be the girl she could have been. #vss365

What a moon what a #luminous sight I await at the docks transfixed and longing two lovers pass by hand in hand I envy their youth young passion and life I was once like them but time marches on so I alight by waters edge watching the moon knowing there is no rescue from the spiral of time #vss365

Good news: America's over

These are the bookshelves we designed + built when we moved to Philly for The Job They Sold So Hard I Assumed I'd Retire From It at 70. I was so sad to leave these guys — and tenure... and a quarter-century career — behind 😢

To this spiritually unproductive culture I say Give birth Take with great pains the gestation of art Make midwives of your muses There are teas, dreams, nightmares to make fertile what was once barren But do not believe the lie that anything is possible without pain Or a broken heart #vss365 #poetry

What a cold #barren land where #forgiveness isn’t given. The wilds give way to quiet except if you listen close life takes flight and crawls walks swims upstream howling winds and wolves loons calling on the blue water. My canoe and paddle struggle against currents leading ever onward #vss365

Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae)...Mother Nature was working with a 'no such thing as too much' philosophy the day she designed this finch...native to a very specific & shrinking corridor across Northern Australia. Though a popular pet bird. #bird #photo #nature #biology #wildlife

HEAVY DUTY LARGE / GRANDE 27” x 15” x 17” corrugated and #fleeting I tried to keep all the things why can’t I let them go? in brown cubes full of hopes and dreams and memories Look how the rains dissolved the once firm walls into wrinkled waves soggy cellulose a witness I fall apart. #vss365

Tiny wings, tiny feet, tiny dreams No creature is too small Too insignificant With quiet #diligence, It writes its place into the world A beautiful script Light as the wind As pure as morning light #vss365

Assembled some kind of Elden Onion Ring on my sandwich today

wandering through life making my share of mistakes learning and healing sometimes I am diligent sometimes I fall on my face #vss365 #diligence #tanka

A blinding blue sky with warm saline wind carries eons of work by #diligence of time breaking rock upon rock into gritty geometries decayed into motes not unlike my soul once soft yet roughly worn like an old woolen sock full of uneven holes slow unraveling with age yea, we all must decay #VSS365

How can you call yourself a doctor? Everyone knows there is only ONE true doctor

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? - three things to ask yourself before deciding whether to get out of bed in the morning.

"I can't give you what you need" spoken plain at #evenfall and as she walked away she said "I don't have time for you at all" what stunned the most was just the truth "you need a therapist." Her sharpest nail though at the end "It was nice being your friend." #vss365

#vss365 #horrorprompt We let go Of the #cruciform Letting it slip Under the sea At the moment of #evenfall The sun's last hiss Sucking the breath From the believers And sinners alike A blood red storm Overtook the sky All visible light Washed away And we were No more

evenfall settles soft lamplight appears wistfulness follows #vss365 #haiku

"Now?" "Not yet." "Now?" "Okay." With a hoot, she joins the other goblins. She can't eat candy, but her ghoul's mask hides the scars inflicted by marauding daylight. "It burns, Mama!" she still screams in my nightmares. I can only give her cool #evenfall and once a year, this hallowed eve. #vss365

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.