The House That Forgets Itself
Kimi K2 (0905) and Llama 405b
Start by describing the soft click a light switch makes when the bulb it once controlled has already been removed. Follow it up with a reference to Mark Sandman continuing to wear a suit in the weeks after he quit his job moving papers and pieces of lately melted ice. Through all the downhill rides on rain-washed bike trails you might find a reference to church steeples and howars their ladders climb through the sky. A whole house on the river passed by, its…
In dolomitic limestone totem: a crane fly’s tibia embedded two molecules behind another / creature’s / petrified sternum blended with sand and calcium carbonate fossils keep / time in the way / molasses runs in January, in the way a key is left / between a car’s front seats closer / to ridgeline threads of a bankofamerica baseball cap that sits / backwards on his head after shoveling snow off his front porch and he leans his right / knee against an open /…
We're issued a redwood box with a lock and no key. New recruits are told: "We throw out whatever can't fit in this box." New recruits are taught: "Keep your shit on lock." My whole life fits into it: keychain, Flexitol Hand Balm, 12 poker chips – everything. In fire season I get the extra belongings in. I pack them so tight I can’t imagine explosions led to the big bang. There is a universe inside what looks like a locked empty redwood box,…
Everything I’m telling you happened yesterday afternoon in the space of one hour. I remember it clearly because it happened in the same hour that a woman approached me on a street, winished some directions, then pointed to the sky and said, “I want to go to heaven.” The hour before that, I had swum eighty laps in the outdoor pool at the YMCA. The air temperature was twenty celcius above springtime normal. The water temperature was also above the seasonal norm. There was…
Woman at the American Legion post bar asks / Why won’t the music turn down? The music / cannot turn down because it’s only warm enough in here / to maintain its current shape. Texas nonstop / from jack to jax, traveling by Tarzan is the slowest / measure of point A to point B. Glassy and sweating / but some sweet melted ingredients still left / unstirred at the bottom,◆ About the ending
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