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March 21, 2016

 

By Martin St-Amant [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D

enraptured by the sea
we are entwining
glacial motion turn to
bellwether song

fractured whale bone
whistle frost pining
my cry echoes through
blue blind caves

phase shift thunder cracks
ruptures liminal border
escaping meltwater
liberates me

you must remain
icily taciturn,
resolutely still

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D’Ranged 25.6.7482

Filed under: Art, Metamodern, Philosophy, Postmodern, Tribute — 24 Comments

March 5, 2015

D’Ranged 25.6.7482 for Camilla D’Errico

She posited a postmodern pout
a mechanized quandary
intellectual/artistic/philosophic inquiry
cyborg helmethead being
weighing on her mind

an anarchy of manga tangles
speaking unknowable truth to power
she embraces complexity
in matrices of binary contradictions
ambiguous fractured metaphysics

for a meta-human world
deconstructing her constructs
before they’re even subroutines
in an act of poetic/semiotic liberty
swirling identity round cyberspace

in an endless loop
tracing a track of thought
self-files corrupted by an
infinite stream of data input
she spins round the code

0110100101110000101010

 

I’m hosting MTB today at dVerse Poets Pub where we’re experimenting! Please join me.

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Interstellar Spectra

Filed under: Science — 4 Comments

January 1, 2015

NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al

initiating a purifying exploration of isolation
isotope meta-states of gravitational collapse,
runaway chemistry catalyzing shift change

luminous burn of a manganese star-path
leaves traces drawn across millennia
supernova remnants of an ill-fated life

on the slow cool countdown
of an adiabatic expansion
she births stars

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