This Week's Writing 6/20/26
Lots of poetry, and a cat under a chair.
Hello! Another week limps to a close as the cat watches.
As always, if you find my writing valuable, I could very much use your help in continuing to scribble. It’s $50/yr, $5/month.
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
The US under Trump is a global scourge. (EIH)
On why the MAGA hat experiment was foolish and bad. (EIH)
Trump lost the Iran war by being evil. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Fady Joudah’s wonderful 160 character poems. (Splice Today)
Honeyjoon is a small, lovely film about grief. (Splice Today)
Hail Mary is Hollywood’s usual cowardly bullshit. (EIH)
Autism vs. Hail Mary. (EIH)
Poetry
A poem for my wife. (Chaotic Merge)
Aging Love
Infatuation is in
what you don’t know.I hated being
infatuated.Now I’m married
and knowmy wife would like
this poem.Though, sure,
I’m not completely sure.A little infatuation
even at this late date
Divine birds poem. (Synchronized Chaos)
Columbidae Equation
That pigeon is
lovely so it must
be a dove.The dove who poops
on our porch
is a pigeon.Ergo,
there is no such thing
as dove shit.
A tiny bit of a longer poem in progress turned into its own poem. (dadakuku)
Duncan Pindaring II
Ecstatic pagan noodling. Eternal fire of networking.
What is nonpartisan gestation? Uncanny yuppies
gentrify our yoga data.
HR is healing.
Three whole poems! (Five Fleas)
Anxiety of Influence
Pound was a fascist ass;
Shelley a philandering jerk.
Yeats was a weird misogynist.
Ted Hughes was even worse.Poe was racist. Stevens too.
Great poets white, male and dead—
away with them! I will live
and write doggerel instead.
strangled my voice out back
at last it’s not me
talking
M
You sleep around my sleep
because you dream of me
while I dream of you or
because the other way around or
because you went to sleep first
and woke up later.
