Kathradical

[portalibis]

Labyrinth of the Minotaur, Lambertus a S. Audomaro, Saint-Omer, c. 1121

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[weepingwidar]

Alberto Regueira (Cuban, 1994) - Reborn (2022)

[kathradical]

Luminous news stream

So and so reached a record high

Look those are cumulus clouds

If my love is in a funk, so am I

The rainforest receded

before I got to see it

I bought watermelon chunks

and spat the seeds into the trash

See there’s no canopy

Street thick with narrators

The past filters in like a gas

[kathradical]

[lesserknownwaifus]

The joint lady from The D.A.R.E. Report: The Land of Decisions and Choices

[kathradical]

At night the high school bleachers

leech moonlight.

Asleep little benches,

upright in the snow.

In time I graduated

past sacrifice & shrunk into

the hollows of my life.

Taverns mothered me.

Dandruff chipped my forehead

to dust, starring the barroom floor.

I stepped away from the center, from

the sheath dress, chewing down

an olive — a girl, maybe twenty,

raising her arms to be recalled.

She needs no mirror. Pale

in the throng of the possible.

The people will see her!

The people will violate

and hogtie & make her a star!

Nothing bad ever happened to me.

I wished on every eyelash

never to die.

[weepingwidar]

Peter Birkhäuser (Swiss, 1911–1976) - The Woman with the Cup (1971)

[kathradical]

[urgetocreate]

Andrea Calisi (Italian b.1968), The Bridge and the Blue Knight, 2026, Illustration

[kathradical]

It’s sheer love of gossip that propels me to read. But poetry is often characterless. The white space allows me to impose my own figures, while prose demands a more logical attention to chronological place and time. I can read a poem with a doubleness of mind— facts matter but so do the unsaid centers. How familiarly should the speaker of a poem address her interlocutor? Frank O’Hara talks to his reader like a friend— a texture of shared referents, and it gives off the spark of eavesdropping.

[worldsandemanations]

Gizem Akdag

[kathradical]

[kathradical]

[ghoulnextdoor]

Devilry, Revelry, and Madcap Delight: The Art of Jane Dashley – Unquiet Things

[ololygas]

[miamaimania]

“Pink Dragon Temple” (Thailand) ⟲ Serpent spiral wraps pink tower

[kathradical]

It is easy to feel terror from a pinprick.

The mind, all seeing

firehouse, combs its strobes for sickness.

After you are dead, perfect and sainted,

your tears will be anomalies

under glass.

Your body belongs to the flames

with no thought of what comes back