#experiments with form

[autometaphorical]

Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate • April 2026

[autometaphorical]

80 light-years (ursa major) • April 2026

[bagog]

Shadow Reader

Tank-top weather, appraising eye on sunlit page. Sends messages like a bird on the sill, its shadow on the wall: a picture of that shadow. What I mean is, when he wrings his hands I imagine him with hollow bones, wings.

[bagog]

Keepsake Paper

When you saw that movie, (fill in as you will) they’re the friend who kept the ticket-stub, and so did you. And neither knew for years the other had kept the stub, too. They’re that friend, if you have one, you may not know you do.

[bluemonkwrites]

turtle crossing

spotting the windshield refractions of sun-rain dance as i remembered

your bare shouldered grin pushed me out of the warm car to save a turtle

he was stupid old crossing the hot blacktop road on flat dark green feet gingerly i lifted it amidst your peal of laughter