#photography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #urbanlandscapes #minimalism #nature

#Search / #some - #2WordPrompt #Defiance - #vss365 In defiance of nuance, I apply a blunt kind of science, subtlety truant — some search, this — a bunch of crunchy data points capture what’s lucent but not what’s lucid.

#bnw #blackandwhitephotography #urbanlandscapes #newtopographics #skyline #landscape

#LookAndSee 442 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio Riding back Where the highway met dead end tracks The ground is now cement and glass So far away Heal her soul Carry her, my angel, Ohio youtu.be/2bFCNJx-BpM

#vss365 #pull #2WordPrompt #office #street No streets in our architecture, we dance on the plaza of the roofs, bury the honored dead beneath our feet in honeycomb homes — pulled from wombs of stone, no one occupies the office of the priest — among equals on aurochs and deer we feast.

Happy Father’s Day to all the papas out there. May you be as joyful as my father looks with two starlings perched upon his head. Miss you, Dad. ❤️

#vss365 - #lurch This slack beast lacks even the conviction to slouch towards Bethlehem — rather, with a low-energy anti-mayhem kind of lurches towards the cashier with a handful of slim jims and an expired debit card — things fell apart right after the divorce, of course.

#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909

If anyone ever caught me crying, i'd just tell them it's because I was thinking about incredible facts

#2WordPrompt #Over the pale of the milk cow’s moon, jump! #Square the circle — the recurring work of the divine cycle, the bovine wrinkle in time, the magic myopic monocle with its blinkered fixation on milky moonshine. youtu.be/Yiagdew_ngY

get in, no time to explain

#vss365 Fetch the rosin for the bow of this violin — a distant cousin’s #distant disposition wears out its welcome if not reined in before too long — this song cycle alludes to wanderers, but unseasoned as it is, and out of tune, the distant strand remains beyond them, the horsehairs ruined.

#LookAndSee 428 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Grouper - I’m dragging a dead deer up a hill youtu.be/LedYZFvbDTM

#2WordPrompt Told to #select his favorite reprobate from a line up of cheap thugs — to #separate in this case would mean to judge, and that he could not do — I feel a mote of camel in my needle’s eye, and so demur, if it’s all the same to you.

#vss365 Hidden in the hard hills of Anatolia, people of bronze rose, thrived and died in their time, to whom nothing was #forbidden save what the inland sea kept for itself, secrets for the winged few, the greater flamingo and lesser kestrel as they flew sad mirror miles between salt and sky.

“Yes, it’s time,” I murmur as I unfold the designated burrito shirt.

#vss365 #Primitive camps of the northeast feast on coal, crack shale for fossils of the lost nautilus — bury your dead in black lung dreams and white pine needles they say, worship at the sign of the whale — sea glass triptychs smuggle faint echoes, waves that boom through the bivouac.

#vss365 - #remnant Divided into threes, the remainder was one. And that one was me — no longer belonging to any of the trinities when I expired, Heaven calling my day done — and so here lie my remains, remnant of ten, the one.

RIP to this old legend 🖤 #jazz #musicsky #sonnyrollins youtu.be/nlatJOsLhPA

#LookAndSee 401 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Yes - Roundabout In and around the lake Mountains come out of the sky And they stand there youtu.be/kmZoQFYYx8U

#2wordprompt: #distant / #wind #prompt #writing On the wind over the west sea came dust, as it did every spring, from a distant factory full of poison and the innards of a dollar store mixed with the dreams of Bactrian camels, dozing as they did amid dawn storms on the Gobi desert.

#vss365 - #misfit His life is conducted mostly in superposition: essentially probabilistic, making breakfast a minor miracle in the midst of an infinity of misfit futures that never materialize, spun off into the land where counterfactuals go while the observer sits overthinking the what ifs.

#vss365 - #dove Having come to an end of things, it was there in the isles of kings that I dived for pearls inside of me. But when I returned to sunset lands of the west, having done the best I could, my reflection was stove in — I simply dove for the pearls instead.

#vss365 - #affection Cat-like affection walks circles around your feet, leading you on. A false sense of security, then, demanding snacks; then, drawing blood; then, forgetting who you are two minutes later; then, invading your home, never to leave again.

#2wordprompt - #strange / #dangle #prompt #writing #poem Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fth-angle! …and with strange aeons, even death may dangle.

#LookAndSee 389 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky King Crimson - Book of Saturday youtu.be/lPutToA0ZHs

#LookAndSee 389 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Keith Jarrett - My Back Pages youtu.be/sOgwNUY_QCs

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanlandscapes #newtopographics #landscape

#2wordprompt - #private / #employ Seize the means of occultation! Collectivize all private eyes; employ any means necessary, set up networks of shortsighted cadres, find the historic line by feel and though vibes.

#7syllablesentence #verdant Verdant expectation: grow! Truant, in fact — green no-show

#vss365 A snapshot of my point of view: to look out at indefinite fields braided with experience, a raucous #fury there in the middle distance — vipers! All goblins! Stick shakers! And this cupped in cloud palm, horizon cradle, held lightly in preternatural calm whether I knew it or not.

you can make it pretty far in life by just not being an annoying dickhead. which is why it's strange that so many people seem to be dickheadmaxxing

There are two wolves inside you — one works on the docks, but he’s on strike; the other works the diner all day and brings home the pay for love. They’re holding on, and you better feed them both because they’re nice. It’s the right thing to do. #vss365 - #wolf

#7syllablesentence - #bound just like Woody Guthrie said all you fascists bound to lose youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

#7syllablesentence - #taste wrapped in persimmons and lies she was accused of poor taste

#2wordprompt #prompt #poem #microfiction “To hold #various views simultaneously, multivalently, to #entertain internal contradiction, is to make a persimmon of identity.” — This, the minister said, announcing a persimmon bridgehead into the new age, and a new wage structure for sin.

#vss365 - #trickery #investiture I. Astringent; puckered lips and grimacing, underdone persimmon’s trick, fruit simony— sweet office bought. II. Trickery is in the naming of things, in the conferring of an office, the investiture of your ripe persimmon bishopric, money changing sticky hands.

#vss365 #Seafoam green hospital walls, like the finish on a surf guitar, all walk don’t run, whammy bar dive, barf, guts are rolling breakers; there’s Neptune and his mermaids with their wavy hair floating in the IV bag, waving tridents, following the current down into the abyss of your veins.

#2WordPrompt #prompt #poem #microfiction Tea leaves weren’t meant to be #read by just anyone: #unless possessed of authenticity, a deep well of feeling for the terraces of Darjeeling which scaled the green mountainsides, intuition came not steeped but skewed — either acrid or stewed.

Pete Hegseth reads more from the Bible:

#vss365 - #hammer 🔨 A hammer dulcimer is certainly a zither, though the opposite isn’t true; and even the hammers themselves are in question, more resembling little spoons — either way, the day is radiant in Washington Square Park, the tune endless and laughing. youtu.be/pgE5wb9bXKI

#LookAndSee 370 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise And someday in the midst of time When they ask me if I knew you I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine youtu.be/FDlDKvidYbk

#vss365 - #ink India ink in a bottle on the writing desk for inscribing permanence; Indian rubber beside, effacing graphite, letting us forget a year of lies; Indian summer beyond the sill, shaking hands with St. Martin until the next killing frost arrives.

Hobbies are awesome. I've started screaming at the sun.

#LookAndSee 368 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Talk Talk - Eden youtu.be/1EbnS4KqeAo

#vss365 - #hand The Invisible Hand of old Adam Smith — filching the money back to the rich — it’s just economics, dear, I hear Adam say — the Hand might give you a job — or else take it away.

#photography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #nature

#2wordprompt #prompt #poem Propped up on wires & rods, natural history #museum — hoary old bones preserved by the #method of virtual man-gods an eon into your future Australopithecus — I wish you could hang with us; Homo Erectus — you went before and got wrecked for us, all stone age Jesus.

#vss365 - #sand Before my days as mystic space dictator, I was married, had kids, suburban everyday shit. But things have a way of getting out of hand — I ever tell you that I don’t like sand?