By storm

06.17.2024

girl:you see a girl about three years of age. cowboy boots and curly ponytail. her skirt crawls up, her pantyhose has holes at the knees, knees are dirty, dirty pantyhose from playing in dirt, dirt streaks between her fingers. sticky. she comes over handing you; a stone. “what is this?” you ask her, aware your accent might drive her away – even the shortest sentences reveals it. “a girl she says.” “oh i see, does she have a name?”. “yes, girl.” she replies. runs off leaving you the girlstone. you lay it down next to the book and read on.…

06.17.2024

“(…) delayed culture shock has many different effects, time spans, and degrees of severity. many people are impaired* by its presence and do not recognise what is bothering them” *compromised, damaged or weakened

06.15.2024

“one day, i stood in front of my family i said i wouldn’t sleep one more night at homei said i had to leave and find myself find my self how?i will go in to exileexile where?i will go cross the deserti want to go forward“

06.12.2024

thin trace of blood when bear moves. a thin blood trace shines in the morning sun as bear leaves denshe says: this is the month of imploding. i’m only breathing through words now— less and less air — loosing language one word after the other. these are among the lost words: familiefest søndagsstel udsigttårn hjemvendt nedfalden roemark sjippetov hovedskald sukkerskål gyngehest samlebånd havørn hættemåge pinsesol dansemyg bortfaldet nedtagen hundeangst lillebælt nordhavn each breath require b o g s t a v e r i n g this is the month of å n d e n ø d 

06.09.2024

she says: “water, tell me more of the water”. filling up the great lake, make it breathe. that bear river makes it breathe. tell me the names bear river speaks, coming down to fill the salt lake, mixing freshwater with its brine (mud flats, south bay, north bay, wellsville cone, cottonwood creek, soda springs, muddy creek, cokeville, twin creek, new canyon, witney canyon, needles creek, mill creek, hayden peak) –bear river, as the only one never reaching the sea, it makes a circular move (crossing state borders) through time, coming down to pass it’s own latitude and

06.07.2024

ah the sex is juvenile, at juvenile times. his sleep is juvenile, afterwards juvenile boy stays in bed.while bear hurries up. bear trots away. ah she’s late, she wants to not be late, but is too heavy to move any faster.she makes a sound deep inside her furry belly, comes out as a nervous g r r h h g r r r h–in the landscape of words you want to have many maps, as each seems to mean so many things: “i am unaware of the name of the literary device you use of looping thoughts in a narrative,…

05.23.2024

lower part of newspaper page; “monarch butterflies drop 59% this year. world wildlife blame climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially use of pesticides in united states killing off the monarch’s main food source, milkweed” —156 words total. below this; “violence against women increasing in middle east”— 43 words total. african milkweed california milkweed cedar hill milkweed common milkweed blunt-leaved milkweed’ butterfly weed desert milkweed four-leaved milkweed green milkweed heart-leaf milkweed horsetail milkweed indian paintbrush leafless milkweed longleaf milkweed mead’s milkweed mojave milkweed narrow leaf milkweed pallid milkweed pineland milkweed pine needle milkweed pleurisy milkweed poke milkweed red milkweed rush milkweed…

05.12.2024

dreamers:  you be a girl with a pile of white  bones and teeth. a shape resembling  antlers entangled in there too  your heap is coming undone  crumbling as skeletons in the desert  you be a girl having conversations  with your bone-heap, asking childish questions  like; “why are we alone” or “does a whale have ribs?”  cause you keep dreaming you have this  whale-rib wand  you tell the heap  you are afraid the lump in your chest  is the tip of a deeper, diving issue  that perhaps all your inner oceans are  contaminated  you tell the heap  you dream of the…