mon / fresh week / continues to be cold/wet desert holiday season / the new Trickhouse is out

Noah Saterstrom has put out a new issue of Trickhouse:  TRICKHOUSE vol 14

Tenny Nathanson has work in it:

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I love how Yeats in “Meru” has several wildly irregular lines mixed in with the regular ones. The opening’s metrical unruliness gives a sense of the cultural-historical phase (Yeats’s “unwinding of the gyre”) that is the poem’s subject:

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every moment sitting in the ten kalpas
every moment
sitting just right now

sun-face Buddha
moon-face Buddha

where is Mazu (Basso) (Great Master Ma)

“ever since Ma kicked me in the chest I have not stopped laughing”

(An Lushan rebellion)

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I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies

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yesterday was not a good packer day.  joe-lo took this pic of sunday ritual.  look how sad i look.  abe & i were blue.  [understatement.]