My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

Come on you O’s! Tough opposition, but the streets will never forget this kit : #lofc #football

#readandplay (481) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time youtu.be/7IX4gWkFqvU

#vss365 - caprice Capricious, the architecture here implies an instant of erect regret: a tectonic mandible aspected as a keen riser, stunned gears, a hot geyser stream of hot mereology (in part or of the whole) buttressed, arched, torus-rolled in the name of a less erratic, less bold love.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

#readandplay (479) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Alice Coltrane - harp solo live youtu.be/q-0flgjUBfE

Three eventualities were planned for, but never spoken of: the rising of the river that floods the moon of mourning; crocus calls through the hill mists in counterpoint; an echo of hollow peasant laughter in hungry silos. Soon the city would forget, but never the soil. #vss365 - eventuality

the one place i find common ground with fundamentalist christians is that we're both praying that all the fundamentalist christians disappear from the planet tomorrow

#readandplay (477) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky David Sylvian - Nostalgia youtu.be/Vu8Lg8aihcM

turn / design - #2wordprompt I designed a magic TV once: when you turned it on, it siphoned off your memories and made them into Price is Right items and you had to bid one dollar to get them back. When you turned it off, you ended up with crippling depression but therapy only cost one dollar.

#vss365 - reinvigorate INFP necromancer finds himself sitting on the fence as usual, half-heartedly reinvigorating the dead as opposed robustly raising them, and also failing to decide on a place for lunch with his wife.

#readandplay (476) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Tori Amos - Silent All These Years youtu.be/HSYr0etDzRM

market / borrow - #2wordprompt I beg your pardon: you borrow the lines in my palms, the trajectory of a kind of half life I lead; but you need blood, and as sad as it seems you can market some pretty empty moments, steal magic from mediocre things while I’m left on mop up duty.

#vss365 - perhaps Perhaps, thought Stephen, I could live my life in reverse. Watch the arrows pop out and restring themselves in the bow, watch the lady’s finger erase the what for, wheel the bucket back up from hell as the neighbors wheel in their complaints, leaving silence in the garden.

#readandplay (474) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Kamasi Washington - Truth youtu.be/fOl2BEvFtOA

#2wordprompt hey found you a priest willing to perform exorcisms on eggplants, calls himself il papa ghanoush — just fuckin’ with you — what I meant was a priest found a colony of purple monkeys sitting on an infinite supply of satanic bananas calls himself the primate of gros michel — what?

#vss365 - catastrophe buddy why you just got a catastrophe all up in my predicament? keep walkin’ or I might just ship you a critical moment topped off with an inflection point.

#2wordprompt - distance / daughter Daughter, you appear as dust blown through the yawning halls of the excavation; I feel your presence as grit between finger tips, these priest-inscribed walls are a litany of sleep. An ever receding distance calls you away, a spiraling grave, beyond reach.

My tiger style clashed with her locust variation, so our defeat of the tardigrade ninja clan seemed gauche, and it wasn’t without a tinge of embarrassment that we looted the bodies. #vss365 - style

“Hope this helps!” is the Mortal Kombat “FATALITY!” of email signoffs

#readandplay (467) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky GZA - B.I.B.L.E. (Killah Priest) Life is a test many quest the universe And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt youtu.be/ilXG_KN5V2g

#vss365 - potential It was in the Suzerain’s nature to envision himself in counterfactual spaces, as lost potential, imagining that his faults were somehow beyond correction, and that the road of failure that lay ahead for him and all the vassals he dragged along was inevitable, a sigh.

#readandplay (465) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Keith Jarrett w. Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - Blame It On My Youth youtu.be/pMXCs4Q_EfU

#7syllablesentence - moonstone moon rabbit makes the rice cake pounding the old stone mortar

#2wordprompt - stranger / unit Undying in an imaginary stasis unit aboard a star-bound mechano-barque, embedded in metaphor and hurtling towards stranger destinies, the mechano-impressario hibernates to the rhythm of Morse code nightmares received in his perpetual telegraphic séance.

#vss365 - bearable Mechano-impressario of the final corps of automata — bearable only in his more subdued cadences — led with a cantilevered address, but soon ground into a pinioned appeal, peaking with a diatribe of chimes, until the coil unwound and the spirit abandoned him to silence.

#7syllablesentence - amber my big money dream — i could shit ambergris like a whale

#readandplay (464) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Ozzy - Suicide Solution (Not trying to be funny about suicide, just posting this because of the relevant history of the lawsuits 🙏) youtu.be/XjbxRc6bk7U

If the wrapper on the Turkish delight were edible, would it also be delightful or just living a lie? #vss365 - wrapper

With roughly the same charm as most invertebrates, I alternately oozed or clicked into the hearts of lovers all up and down the phylogenetic tree, caution to the polyp-y wind, I advanced romance irrespective of descent or progeny, and now I find myself spineless and alone. #2wordprompt with / rough

#7syllablesentence - pearl swallowed sand of an hour glass — behind my ribs, a pearl

#vss365 - power Blame raised to the power of the 10 moments of failure recorded in chronicles of spring and autumn misgiving; no way forward but a flower bedecked ass out the north gate, of the riven, gate of sinners, and into a wilderness of factored penance.

All of the witnesses were Christian. No mention of states imposing religious doctrine on students (e.g., 10 Commandments); injecting religious doctrine into school curriculum; replacing guidance counselors with Christian chaplains; and more. All of which is happening in Dan Patrick's home state, TX.

#vss365 - doorway Cross of albatross wings hung over the doorway into Wednesday, inverse sturgeon crawl lungfish-wise out of the estuary nearby, prostrate on the stoop after a long hike up, quietly gurgle-cursing the wards of the cottage, wondering if they’ll have to wait until Thursday to evolve.

I know it sounds mad but if you had regular exposure to trees and sunlight and started reading again for pleasure, it would heal you.

Passion of the Christ 2: Still Christin’ Another Passion of the Christ Passion of the Christ: Havana Nights Passion of the Christ: Day One

#readandplay (460) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Lyle Lovett - Walk Through the Bottomland (feat. Emmy Lou Harris) “…she loved the darkness and hated the light, along with that damn rodeo.” youtu.be/9WxyP2oP4CA

#2wordprompt - these / total The ship of Theseus only underwent its total transformation after he’d abandoned Ariadne on the shores of Naxos, to these mines of emery and the wine god, absolving himself of betrayal by fleeing into epistemic uncertainty.

#vss365 - conscious Self-conscious that it was obvious to everyone that he was conscious of the fact that it was a projection of himself in a dream that in turn projected the trireme onto the dark blue waves of the Aegean, he fell into a swoon where he imagined it all again once removed.

#readandplay (458) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears Miserable… 😬 youtu.be/B3Wds4gDGRc

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

#readandplay (456) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4

From the letters of the Vizier at Patmos, Cave of the Revelator: “The suchness of things falls outside the constellation of our concerns. We feel it adds nothing but is-ness to is. Our response to grammar is offal, life at hand — the amputated and quivering our guiding stars when we fly.” #vss365

Malignant schemes of the heron vizier, breaking into flight out of his millet’s marsh reeds, murder dives or wading into the society of perch and rending the flesh of their young, their best, then back to mangrove rookeries to dream of unending satiety in an unending kingdom. #vss365 - malignant

#2wordprompt - letter / put Put on a slave galley and sent packing. What we have: the Vizier’s letters from exile on the islands of the Dodecanese, one from each, recording exhortations to God, fanciful tales of seascape aviaries, longing elegies of home.

#7syllablesentence - shade asleep in the shade of a crossroads gibbet — dream of trials

I think people assume that knowledge is just something that exists eternally, once achieved, as opposed to something that has to be cultivated and can be lost.

#photography #landscape #bnwlandscape #nature #blackandwhitephotography

The bookshelf — old boards salvaged from the courtroom of a hanging judge and blocks from his prison; it added to every text placed on it a cruel hermeneutic, every interpretation was punishment. #whistpr - bookshelf