Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"Of Posturing" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book Little War Machine

A Satisfying Vulgarity, Part 7 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... I really don’t think anybody else is writing about what we are often engaged in.

"Roundhouse" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book A STOP TO SEE HEPATICA: (The Hepaticas 2019-2022) published in 2024

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

Redux 5: A Real Poetic Outlaw open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... “Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”__Wallace Stevens from the book Opus Posthumous

“Farmer” by Jim Harrison open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Harrison does a great job of examining these lives through fiction.

Through the Years: The Travel Trailer, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Out West

“The Illiterate” by Ágota Kristof open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... One must persevere, at times, and often, against great odds.

"Hiding These Feet Dunked in Ink" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Know that the road will be hard. The descent will be deep…The real journey is stranger.: the one through which we are never led. __from Preparation for the Descent (Cantos I-XXII) by Ellen Hinsey

Discussing the Term “Sex Object,” part 1 of 2 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Death, take the emptiness of your genitals and bring this sober man its vulgar nothings.__Lifted, plagiarized and rearranged, from the poem Death written by Casey Finch

"Last Letter to a Reader" by Gerald Murnane open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Is this really Gerald Murnane's last book?

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"With Charlie Under Glass" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book Little War Machine

A Satisfying Vulgarity, Part 6 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... I really don’t think anybody else is writing about what we are often engaged in.

"At Once a Refulgent Furnace" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book A STOP TO SEE HEPATICA: (The Hepaticas 2019-2022) published in 2024

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

Redux 4: A Real Poetic Outlaw open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... “One reads poetry with one’s nerves.”__Wallace Stevens from the book Opus Posthumous

"Sky Saw"by Blake Butler open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... What happened to the good old denial system that leaders like George W. Bush pushed for after 9/11 when he asked us all to get back out there and get shopping again?__M Sarki

Through the Years: The Cabin in Northern Michigan, part 15 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Through the years we continually revisited our special place at Tawas Point.

"Warlock" by Jim Harrison open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ...He liked older women for the simple reason that they were less likely to be dumb…

"Bunkum and Balderdash" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Know that the road will be hard. The descent will be deep…The real journey is stranger.: the one through which we are never led. __from Preparation for the Descent (Cantos I-XXII) by Ellen Hinsey

"Those Two Dirty Birds" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The challenge he put on the table was for all of us present to reveal what we ourselves kept hidden inside our own wallets.

"Dying: A Memoir" by Cory Taylor open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …For what are we, if not a body taking a mind for a walk, just to see what’s there?

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"Antioch" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book Little War Machine

A Satisfying Vulgarity, Part 5 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... I really don’t think anybody else is writing about what we are often engaged in.

“Walks with Walser” by Carl Seelig, Anne Posten (Translator) open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ...Without internal darkness an artist remains a half-formed thing, a scentless greenhouse plant...It is only through flaws that a character attains depth…

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

Redux 3: A Real Poetic Outlaw open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ”Poetry is a cure of the mind.”__Wallace Stevens from the book Opus Posthumous

"Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me" by Deirdre Bair open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ...We live now in an age of indecency, when nothing is off-limits…

Through the Years: The Cabin in Northern Michigan, part 14 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Through the years we continually revisited our special place at Tawas Point.

"We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... a short book review

"One's Daily Dozen" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Know that the road will be hard. The descent will be deep…The real journey is stranger.: the one through which we are never led. __from Preparation for the Descent (Cantos I-XXII) by Ellen Hinsey

The Rude and Ruddy at Their Jobs open.substack.com/pub/themarri... And if it isn’t true love, it oughta be.

"Refusing Heaven" by Jack Gilbert open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... importance in review

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"It Is Dark Inside This Earth" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book Little War Machine

A Satisfying Vulgarity, Part 4 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... I really don’t think anybody else is writing about what we are often engaged in.

“Powderhouse” by Jens Bjørneboe open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... The fact that this book was written in 1969 and could have been written yesterday is astounding to me.

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

Redux 2: A Real Poetic Outlaw open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... (another untitled poem by Christine Lavant)

"A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self" by Robert Bly, William Booth (Editor) open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... If the shadow’s gifts are not acted upon...

Through the Years: Camellia open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Melbourne, Florida

"Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters" by Jeff Burger open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... (Musicians in Their Own Words)

"Setting Out in Marvelous Clothes" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Know that the road will be hard. The descent will be deep…The real journey is stranger.: the one through which we are never led. __from Preparation for the Descent (Cantos I-XXII) by Ellen Hinsey

Sometimes We Cry open.substack.com/pub/themarri... on the road to find out (a post by Naughty but Kind)

"A New Name: Septology VI-VII" by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Translator) open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …talent is so self-evident that he will definitely encounter a lot of resistance, because it’s like great talent awakens opposition, yes, it scares people, and irritates them…

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"Beast" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book Little War Machine