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Monday, 9 July 2018

Joseph Ceravolo: Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky | Dawn | Hercules Breeds

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#India Railways linemen inspect tracks as a suburban train goes past during rain in Mumbai Photo @thisisindra #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 July 2018


#Japan #Japanfloods A desperate wait for news after deadly Japan rains #AFP Photo @MartinBureau7: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 1:31 PM 9 July 2018


#South Sudan A woman takes care of her new-born baby at her home after a World Food Programme (WFP) plane dropped sacks of maize and sorghum from air in Jeich village Photo @Patrassa AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 July 2018
 
  
Bags full of it: at a private opening at a Versace store in Beverly Hills.: photo by Lauren Greenfield /The Guardian, 8 June 2018

Dawn Sturgess - The terrible death of Dawn Sturgess casts a new shadow over the Salisbury Affair. Dawn appears to have been a popular and well grounded woman with close friend and family ties, whose life had taken a downward turn before being cruelly ended.: tweet via Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg, 2:52 AM 9 June 2018

 
The deadly substance that killed #DawnSturgess is the same nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Both survived the attack - which the #UK has blamed on #Russia: image via PendletonNW @PendletonNW, 8 July 2018 


The pleasure of not knowing vs the horror of knowing
 

Guys, I don't want to oversell this, but I think I've blown this wide open. I just drove through #Amesbury and it turns out it's quite near to #PortonDown.  I realise nobody else has probably spotted this. #QAnon #OSINT #Skripal: image via Matt Kane @ascorbic, 6 July 2018


Guys, I don't want to oversell this, but I think I've blown this wide open. I just drove through #Amesbury and it turns out it's quite near to #PortonDown.  I realise nobody else has probably spotted this. #QAnon #OSINT #Skripal: image via Matt Kane @ascorbic, 6 July 2018


Guys, I don't want to oversell this, but I think I've blown this wide open. I just drove through #Amesbury and it turns out it's quite near to #PortonDown.  I realise nobody else has probably spotted this. #QAnon #OSINT #Skripal: image via Matt Kane @ascorbic, 6 July 2018

The past Porton Down can't hide: As an inquest reopens into the death of a young airman 51 years ago, Rob Evans reveals the secrets of Britain's nerve gas tests: The Guardian, 6 May 2004

Tucked away in 7,000 acres of beautiful Wiltshire countryside lies one of Britain's most infamous scientific establishments. Porton Down, founded in 1916, is the oldest chemical warfare research installation in the world. The tight secrecy which has surrounded the establishment for decades has fed the growth of all sorts of myths and rumours about its experiments. One Whitehall official once remarked that Porton had an image of "a sinister and nefarious establishment".

The Porton experiments on humans have attracted a good deal of criticism. It is, for example, alleged that the human "guinea pigs' - drawn from the armed forces and supposedly all volunteers - were duped into taking part in the tests. There are still concerns that the tests have damaged the long-term health of the human subjects.

This week, its work has been thrown into the spotlight once again: an inquest was reopened into the death, in May 1953, of a young airman, Ronald Maddison. He died after liquid nerve gas was dripped on to his arm by Porton scientists in an experiment. The original inquest decided that his death was accidental, but this new inquest will examine fresh evidence and decide if the verdict should stand.

But what were the scientists at Porton doing? Years after the experiments ended, did they achieve anything of scientific value? The Guardian has pieced together a comprehensive and surprising picture of the nerve gas experiments, drawn from reports of the tests uncovered at the Public Record Office and new documents obtained under the "open government" code.

From a purely scientific point of view, they produced a huge amount of data about the effects of nerve gas on the human body. This data in turn has enabled Porton to develop some of the most sophisticated defences in the world to protect Britain's armed forces from chemical attack. Porton acknowledges that the human experiments have made a "vital contribution" to this protection. The data also helped Britain to develop its own arsenal of nerve gas before such plans were finally shelved in the late 1960s.

From 1945 to 1989, Porton exposed more than 3,400 human "guinea pigs" to nerve gas. It seems probable that Porton has tested more human subjects with nerve gas, for the longest period of time, than any other scientific establishment in the world. Two other nations have admitted testing nerve gas on humans: the American military exposed about 1,100 soldiers between 1945 and 1975, and Canada tested a small number before 1968. Other countries, including France, the old Soviet Union and Iraq, are also likely to have exposed humans to nerve gas, but very little is known about their tests.

The group of chemicals known as nerve gases were first developed as weapons by the Nazis before and during the second world war. German scientists discovered the potency of these organophosphorous compounds which, in tiny quantities, disrupt a key element of the nervous system.

Human muscles contract when a chemical, acetylcholine, is released from the nerve endings. Muscles do not exist in a permanent form of contraction because acetylecholine is destroyed in a split second by an enzyme (acetylcholinesterase), thus allowing the muscle to relax again. Nerve gases inactivate this important enzyme, and since it is prevented from working, the muscle goes into a state of spasm from which it cannot be relaxed. Victims die because the most important muscles in the body - those of the heart and the rib cage, which control the emptying and filling of the lungs - are paralysed. They suffocate swiftly in a horrifying death.

The nerve gases are more deadly than any other chemical weapon, but during the second world war, only the Germans had spotted their full potential and produced an arsenal of the munitions. As one Porton official has commented, the British and their allies were "caught with our pants down".

As the Third Reich was collapsing in April 1945, the British discovered stocks of the gas in Germany. Within two weeks, Porton had tested the new gas on batches of human subjects, even though they did not know what the unknown compound was or how it harmed the body.

The discovery of the new weapons instantly transformed Porton, as all its previous work on other chemicals, such as mustard gas, was downgraded. Porton scientists quickly had to find out how nerve gases attacked the human body.

One of the early tests established just how little one of the nerve gases, sarin, was needed to trigger a reaction in humans. Fifty-six men were sent into gas chambers and exposed to "low concentrations" of gas. The scientists watching recorded that after 20 minutes, the men started to suffer miosis (constriction of the pupil), one of the first symptoms of nerve gas poisoning. Their vision was blurred and darkened, in some cases for up to five days.

Fourteen men were exposed to repeated doses of sarin, some when they were still experiencing the effects of the previous poisoning. Porton scientists observed: "Repeated exposures produced, after the third or fourth occasion, an aggravation of effects ..."

By 1950, Porton had begun to test "considerable higher doses" of sarin on 133 men, and catalogued the severity of symptoms, such as runny noses, headaches, vomiting and eye pain.

Within two years, Porton had moved on to look at other aspects. In one study, in 1952, it wanted to see how sarin would impair the mental performance and intellectual ability of humans.

Twenty airmen were exposed to sarin and then measured to see how they performed in intelligence and aptitude tests. From this experiment, Porton inferred that after exposure, the men's visual co-ordination was worse, but their reasoning and intellectual capability had not deteriorated. Another 12 men were exposed to stronger doses of sarin - Porton found that the men appeared "behaviourally much less disturbed than the increased concentration (of sarin) would lead one to expect".

Maddison died during what is probably Porton's most controversial experiment. It will be at the heart of the inquest over the coming weeks. He was one of 396 men who took part in a large experiment whose aim was to "determine the dosage of [three nerve gases] which when applied to the clothed or bare skin of men would cause incapacitation or death".

The scientists were aiming to expose the men to sub-lethal quantities of the nerve gases and then measure how much each of the quantities was reducing the amount of cholinesterase enzymes in the body. They were trying to establish a ratio between the two figures and then extrapolate them to arrive at the lethal dose for humans. But they discovered that this theory was flawed, as there is no direct correlation.

After Maddison's death, Porton was limited in the amount of nerve gas it could test on humans, but the trials continued.

About 300 soldiers in the mid-1950s were used to see how well they could conduct military operations after they had been attacked with nerve gas. They were gassed with relatively low levels and then sent on a mock exercise. The men performed well in daylight, but less so at night. The biggest hindrance was that they could not see very well, but the scientists believed that a "determined infantryman" could still fight on after being exposed to low amounts of nerve gas.

They speculated that during the day, "a unit of intact morale" could cope, but at night, the men would have been vulnerable because they would have been prone to panic, especially since their sight was being hampered.

The psychological effects of nerve gas were a continuing focus of experiments in the 1950s. In one set of trials, the men underwent a series of intelligence and aptitude tests after being gassed. Porton found that the men were distinctly unhappy and depressed afterwards, emotions that were combined with a "feeling of reduced mental alertness and a tendency to social withdrawal".

In the late 1950s, Porton studied the effect of nerve gas on particular parts of the body. One study concluded that nerve gas did not impair hearing; this might have been a problem if troops could not, for instance, hear instructions or orders in the heat of the battle after a gas attack. Another looked at whether nerve gas hindered the circulation of blood through the veins in the leg; it didn't. Another examined the impact of nerve gas on the heart, as the scientists wanted to see if particular muscles between the ribs were responsible for one of the usual nerve gas symptoms - a "tightness in the chest".

In the later years of the programme, Porton seems to have focused on assessing the effects of nerve gas on the eyes, a crucial question because, for instance, pilots faced with reading complicated rows of instruments could be put out of action with a slightest amount of exposure to the gas.

The nerve gas programme was substantial at Porton because human testing has been an integral part of the establishment since it was founded. During the past 80 years, some 25,000 humans have been subjected to Porton's experiments, many in trials with other chemical weapons such as mustard gas and tear gas. Others were used simply to test defensive equipment without being exposed to chemicals.

Today, Porton is devoted totally to devising defensive measures against gas attacks. But the conduct and ethical standards of tests in the past will be under unprecedented scrutiny in the inquest over the coming weeks.

 

This is Ronald Maddison, a 20 year old Royal Air Force engineer who died at #PortonDown after being exposed to #NerveAgent. The truth about his death was covered up for 50 years by the government. #AmesburyIncident #Novichock2 #Skripals: image via One Ten Twelve @OneTenTwelve, 5 July 2018

After Maddison's death, Porton was limited in the amount of nerve gas it could test on humans, but the trials continued.


epa editor's choice 05 July 2018: Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury remains closed and cordoned off as investigations continue into how Dawn S. and Charlie R. were found unconscious on Saturday night, in Amesbury, Britain, 05 July 2018. Charlie R. and his partner Dawn S. had allegedly been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, according to police. #QueenElizabethGardens #Unconscious #NerveAgent #Salisbury #Amesbury #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #epaphotos Photo epa-efe / Rick Findler: image via epaphotos @epaphotos, 5 July 2018

Robert Maddison's Monsoon Ghost Barge Scroll Entry Remembers Dawn *

Drew a Glyph for you this morning.
I was so proud of myself, having a list at the end of Broken Glory
of the sources for every single assertion in the book, and then
you discovered, early in the book, a factual error for early 1967
when you visited Burton and Taylor.  Oi oi oi.
Now, at signings have to hand correct the book.


Glyph for Angelica Clark who discovered an error in Broken Glory: Ed Sanders, 8 July 2018 
 ( *if unable to view Robert Maddison's Monsoon Ghost Barge Scroll entry, don't blame Heraclitus, blame Google, whose blind labyrinthine cavern slaves we are)

Untitled | by el zopilote

Ajo, Arizona: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 11 June 2016


Replying to @mumbaipressclubThanks to #RedInkAwards for this honour and recognition of my @AFPphoto of a Rohingya father wailing over the body of his son who breathed his last while making the perilous journey from Myanmar to Bangladesh. #Rohingya #Humanrights #AFP: image via Indranil Mukherjee @thisisindra, 19 May 2018



GAZA STRIP - Palestinian mourners carry the body of 23-year-old Ahmed Qutoosh, who died of his wounds endured during clashes with Israeli troops, during his funeral in Nuseirat Photo @mohmdabed @AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 May 2018

 
#Spain An "aloitador" struggles with a wild horse in the "curro" during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in Sabucedo. During the 400-year-old horse festival, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains, trimmed and marked. Photo @MiguelRiopa #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 8 July 2018


#Thailand Four boys among a group of 13 trapped in a flooded Thai cave reached the rescue base camp. Photo @TheLilyfish #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 8 July 2019


Hong Kong sunrise 🔥🔥🔥: image via Jerome Taylor @JeromeTaylor, 8 July 2018

As the Shades of Evening Withdraw, Drumpf Remembers Dawn *

So she's been taken care of? Gone? Tremendous! I knew this trip was going to be tremendous.

.  (Sucks tiny hotdog fingers splattering joey chestnut brand imported outer boroughs relish all down the cabin of AF1)



 There's a red sun rising... #HongKong: image via Jerome Taylor @JeromeTaylor, 8 July 2018
Joseph Ceravolo: Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky

Be uncovered!
Hoe with look life!   Sun rises.
Rice of suffering.   Dawn
              in mud,
this is my roof   my friend
O country   o cotton   drag
of the wild provoke,
there's a thousand years   How are
you growing?
No better to in a stranger.
Shack, village,
                        brother,
wild provoke of the endurance sky!

Joseph Ceravolo: Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky, from Wild Flowers Out of Gas (1967)


Hong Kong sunrise porn: image via Jerome Taylor @JeromeTaylor, 8 July 2018


A man kicks a ball while celebrating the start of rice crop planting in Nepal Photo @NavreshChitrakar: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 July 2018


A sun halo forms in the sky around the sun near the Angel of Independence monument yesterday in Mexico City. Sun halos are caused by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Photo Anthony Vazquez: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8 July 2018


The hands of Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia, right, and his wife Cathy Justice left, are seen as they greet @realDonaldTrump as he arrives in West Virginia to make remarks at the Salute to Service dinner at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs. #westvirginia: image via Doug Mills #dougmillsnyt, 3 July 2018

Stockholm, Sweden | by Miguel M.A.S.

Stockholm, Sweden: photo by Miguel M.A.S., sometime in 2018
 
2018-06-29_12-29-59 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-06-29_12-29-59 [Pasar Induk Kramati Jati, Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 24 June 2018

2018-06-29_12-29-59 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-06-29_12-29-59 [Pasar Induk Kramati Jati, Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 24 June 2018

2018-06-29_12-29-59 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-06-29_12-29-59 [Pasar Induk Kramati Jati, Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 24 June 2018

Untitled | by koushiksinharoy1

Untitled | Kolkata, India 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 28 June 2018

Untitled | by koushiksinharoy1

Untitled | Kolkata, India 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 28 June 2018

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Untitled | Kolkata, India 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 28 June 2018
 
R0005709 | by Kanin Eiam

R0005709: photo by Kanin Eiam, 3 July 2018
 
R0005709 | by Kanin Eiam

R0005709: photo by Kanin Eiam, 3 July 2018

R0005709 | by Kanin Eiam

R0005709: photo by Kanin Eiam, 3 July 2018

Hercules Breeds

C-130 HERCULES AIR TRANSPORT
TIME
05/03/1963
p. 87

Lockheed Aircraft Corp. advertisement for C-130 Hercules Air Transport: Time, 3 May 1963 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Breed To Act Quickly, Or Hit The Ground Later

“I want to hit the ground running with some of the things I want to address sooner rather than later,” Breed said.

“The thing that I care about so much is the future,” she said. But Breed also has her gaze fixed on the city’s immediate problems.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018 

 OLD GOLD CIGARETTES
THE HOME MAGAZINE
12/01/1930
p. 29

P. Lorillard Co. advertisement for Old Gold Cigarettes: The Home Magazine, 1 December 1930 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Act To Breed Quickly, Before They Hit The Ground 

“I want to address the ground before running into some of the things I want to hit later,” Breed said.

“The thing that I gaze into so much is the future,” she said. But Breed also has her care fixed on the ground.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

MIMEOGRAPH
LIFE
06/22/1942
p. 14 

A.B. Dick Co. advertisement for Mimeograph: Life, 24 July 1942 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Before They Strike Again, Run Over Them Quickly

“I want to hit the ground later running over some of the things I want to hit sooner,” Breed said.

“The thing that I care about so much is the gaze,” she said. "It's the thing I want to gaze into sooner rather than later." But Breed also has her future problems fixed. 

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

KELLOGG'S PEP
LIFE
07/24/1939
p. 9 

Kellogg Company advertisement for Kellogg's Pep: Life, 24 July 1939 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Act Quickly, To Strike Before They Breed Again

“I want to quickly run over some of the things I'll run into the ground later,” Breed said.

But Breed also has her future problems fixed. 

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

 LYSOL ANTISEPTIC
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
04/01/1936
p. 115

Lehn and Fink advertisement for Lysol: Good Housekeeping, 1 April 1936 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

To Breed, Act Quickly, Before They Strike Again

“I want to go to ground to breed with some of the things I'll run over sooner rather than later,” Breed said quickly.

“The thing that I care about so much is the ground,” she said. But Breed also has her problems fixed on the city.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

LISTERINE
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
07/01/1949
p. 9

Lambert Pharmacal advertisement for Listerine: Ladies' Home Journal, 1 July 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Breed To Act Quickly, Before They Strike Again

“I want to hit the ground running over some of the things I want to address sooner or later,” Breed said.

“The thing that I care about so much is the problem,” she said. "It's the thing I want to gaze into sooner rather than later."

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

LIFE INSURANCE
NEWSWEEK
10/12/1964

Lambert Pharmacal advertisement for Listerine: Ladies' Home Journal, 1 July 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

To Strike, Act Quickly, Before They Breed Again

“The fix that I care about so much is the gaze,” she said. But Breed also has to run her future into the ground.

“The thing that I care about sooner rather than later is going to ground,” she said. But Breed also has her problems fixed on the city’s immediate gaze.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

THE FUTURE OF FEDERALISM
TIME
10/04/1963
p. 3

Atheneum Paperbacks advertisement for The Future of Federalism: Newsweek, 4 October 1963 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Breed To Act Quickly, Or Fix Again

“I want to hit the ground breeding with some of the things I want to address sooner rather than later,” Breed said.

“The thing that I care about so much is the problem,” she said. But Breed also has her gaze fixed on the city’s immediate address.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTES
LIFE
08/30/1937
BACK COVER

American Tobacco Company advertisement for Lucky Strike: Life, 30 August 1937 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Act Quickly, To Breed Before They Gaze Again

“I want to quickly breed with then fix some of the things I'll run into the ground  later,” Breed said.

“The breed that I care about so much is the gaze,” she said. But Breed also has to run her future into the ground.

Breed To Act Quickly: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2018

HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE
THE HOME MAGAZINE
12/01/1930
p. 31

The Household Magazine advertisement for The Household Magazine: The Home Magazine, 1 December 1930 (Gallery of Graphic Design) 

at 07:53

5 comments:

TC said...

We'll be back here quickly breeding on the ground and live streaming from under it for you @6PM PDT, of course.

Aim to serve as always.

Slow down Take a quick deep breath and a precious moment with a loved one squeeze them real tight exhale and check out this quick front end splainer, while you breed:

Donald Trump Jr.
‏Verified account @DonaldJTrumpJr
2h2 hours ago

*Flash Flood Warning Tonight at 9PM EST*

This is not a joke. Liberal tears will be flowing like Niagara Falls when #POTUS announces his second #SCOTUS pick.

Please take all necessary precautions & bring an inner tube or boogie board to ride this blue wave. ��������������#maga
3,567 replies 8,260 retweets 25,054 likes

We don't want to give anything away but the fake news has now posted spies from the new york breeder outside the tombs of several of the favourites, checking off the ones who are busy at home hanging out the laundry in Indiana, and all. And they've come up with somebody named Maggie who's hitting the ground running away, so obviously her odds are dropping, or wait, running away and running toward have several of the same epiphenomenal aspects, when viewed from a fixed position. So - enjoy.

9 July 2018 at 17:49
TC said...

OK, this site is being slowed down by traffic overload again, so we'll be transferring the feed over to our QuickBreed app in 3-2-1...

Download now and receive a free shipment of Novichok via Amazon Prime, limited to the first 10,000 customers.

We all know money breeds money, around here the process is just speeded up a bit, that's the real brilliance of QuickBreed innit.

9 July 2018 at 18:56
TC said...

And that's the beauty of it.

9 July 2018 at 18:58
Mose23 said...

Lockheed: a true bad magic name.

Dawn in mud,
this is my roof my friend

Joe was holy from the start.

10 July 2018 at 13:29
TC said...

Certainly you would not be referring to the salient suppressor of insurgency (that is, disorganised human life) on the planet, a global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, no, that would be impolite and borderline unsporting, among allies.

That touch with everything on earth not yet lockheeded is a contact point of spirit in Joe's early poems, and I think his early time in Mexico City may have been a grounding for that vein in the poems, which for me is felt strongly in this one. Of what other american poet can it be said, a citizen of the world - I mean not as tourist or celebrity but as a fellow in spirit as well as intent, to everyone alive.

10 July 2018 at 18:35

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2014-2015 FAVOURITES

  • Wallace Stevens: THinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors
  • Robert Creeley: For Debora
  • Crude
  • Black Wave (Pacific Melt)
  • The Jews of Asia
  • The only moment we have is right now
  • Rohingya: Adrift
  • A seemingly insatiable demand
  • Its horn more precious than gold
  • Marianne Moore: The Pangolin
  • Lorenzo Thomas: Inauguration
  • O-o-h Child
  • "Time rotates..."
  • Origami
  • Baltimore
  • Little Girl
  • Foreigners
  • Gag Reflex: Federico García Lorca: Paisaje de la multitud que vomita (Anochecer en Coney Island)
  • Edwin Denby / Weegee: In Public, In Private (In the Tunnel of Love and Death)
  • Private moment: If you could read my mind
  • Pay-To-Play Killer Cop: The Death of Eric Harris, the Black Holocaust and 'Bad' History in Oklahoma
  • Yarmouk: 'I Am Not a Statistic'
  • How it went down for Thabo: NYPD chokeslam, broken leg, plain sight perpwalk show -- American dream glass half full?
  • America: Structural: This is how it's going down
  • Jim Dine: 'When Creeley met Pep' (simply a doll to love)
  • Forugh Farrokhzad: The Wind Will Carry Us / Street Art Iran: Nafir (Scream)
  • wraith
  • George Herbert: I got me flowers
  • Luna de Sangre: Hasbara Moon ("And Then We Were Free")
  • The Ritual Aspect
  • Fear of Television
  • Archives
  • Unearthly Beauty
  • Frank O'Hara: On Dealing with the Canada Question
  • Beyond Gaming
  • Sy Hersh: My Lai Revisited: "We were carying the war very hard to them"
  • Rires of Spring: Fire
  • Open Arms
  • Hilton Obenzinger: Treyf Pesach
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Words
  • Being Boring
  • King of the Grifters
  • End of the World Cinema: Daring To Be the Same / The Commanders
  • The Avenger (Lorine Niedecker: "A monster owl...")
  • Cottonmouth
  • Peckerwood Diplomacy
  • Samuel Beckett: My Family
  • Jim Dine: My Letter to the Troops
  • Aram Saroyan: Old People
  • Where Is the House of the Friend?
  • Wislawa Szymborska: Some like poetry
  • Bertolt Brecht: Die Musen / The Muses
  • Almost Time Now
  • William Carlos Williams / Dorothea Lange: The Descent
  • Poetry and Extreme Weather Events: William McGonagall: The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • A Voice from Troy
  • Camilo José Vergara: When Everything Fails (Repurposing Salvation in America's Urban Ruins)
  • Love Songs
  • Craig Stephen Hicks, Angry White Men and Falling Down
  • American Terror
  • Leaving Debaltseve: "The whole town is destroyed"
  • Flann O'Brien: Is it about a bicycle?
  • William Carlos Williams: The Thing
  • Just a perfect day for global epic reflection
  • Fashion Week
  • Wislawa Szymborska: Utopia
  • Balls
  • New Moon (Not Dark Yet)
  • Tom Clark: Evening Train
  • Projections of a Dream
  • Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Guantánamo Diary
  • Philip Larkin: Kid Stuff
  • Inside the No-Go Zone: Exploring the Hidden Secrets of the Brum Caliphate ("83 outfits on the 8:30 train from Selly Oak")
  • Crusaders -- they're all Charlies
  • Je Suis Virunga
  • Thomas Campion: Now winter nights enlarge
  • Migratory: 'We are alone'
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): Euripides: The Chorus to Iphigeneia
  • Robert Herrick: To his saviour. The New yeers gift
  • Dishonorable
  • Blank Space
  • You (V) (Hölderlin)
  • The most patriotic picture ever taken of me
  • Nancy Morejón: Tobacco Worker
  • We'll Leave a Light On
  • Blending In (Lunar Impersonation)
  • Polar Bears: The Big Sleep ("Is the white bear worth seeing?")
  • Robert Walser: The Battle of Sempach
  • Simon Schuchat: Lion
  • An 'Act of War'
  • Pablo Neruda: Keeping Quiet
  • Philae Lander: Fade Out / Frantz Fanon: The End of the European Game
  • Grapefruit Moon with Murmurations
  • No one to rock the cradle (Nazim Hikmet: You must live with great seriousness, like a squirrel)
  • Elephant Memories
  • A New Life
  • Sophocles: Oedipus the King: On the shore of the god of evening (The chorus prays for deliverance from the plague)
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes -- she was already lost
  • Wislawa Szymborska: Hatred (It almost makes you have to look away)
  • Philip Larkin: The Beats: A Few Simple Words
  • Pablo Neruda: I want to talk with the pigs
  • Edward Dorn: If it should ever come
  • Dwindling Domain (Nazim Hikmet: from Living)
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Think of Others
  • Marguerite Yourcenar: I Scare Myself: Exploring the Dark Brain of Piranesi's Prisons
  • Better Together?
  • An End to Empire
  • Dennis Cowals: Before the Pipeline (Near the End of the Dreamtime)
  • Hazard Response: What Went Wrong in Happy Valley?
  • Heimat: A Tribute in Light: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding
  • Borderlands: Between the Dream and the Reality
  • Ideology
  • Robinson Jeffers: Point Joe
  • Erasing the Forgotten: Has Gaza Eluded the Historical Memory of Poetry?
  • "Who you out here for?"
  • A Grievous Deception (Fabricating War Out of Absolutely Nothing)
  • Why Hillary
  • A very strong energy drink
  • Dr Mads Gilbert on the Palestinian will to resist: "I compare occupation with occupation"
  • Welcome home, villager: A window into the minds of the occupiers ("the most moral army in the world")
  • The Toll: Asmaa Al-Ghoul: Never ask me about peace
  • Shock (but there it is)
  • no one knows
  • Democracy DOA (working conditions)
  • lost souls
  • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood
  • Back into the Ruins: What is this? Just stunned
  • When medics cry
  • I am the bullets, the oranges and the memory: Mahmoud Darwish: Ahmad Al-Za'tar / Fadwa Tuqan: Hamza
  • Have Mercy (Mr. Obama, do you have a heart? A letter from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a physician working in Gaza)
  • killing us while we are sleeping
  • Another stunning sunset: Ilan Pappe: Israel's righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Under Siege
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Silence for Gaza
  • Emily Dickinson: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
  • "Hello my name is..."
  • Seeing Multiples: Ghosts of Jönköping ("We are somewhere else")
  • Fernando Pessoa: The falling of leaves that one senses without hearing them fall
  • Taking the El to Work
  • Young Man Carrying Goat: Vermont Forty Years Ago
  • Chidiock Tichborne: The End
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Identity Card
  • Purity
  • Commercial Opportunities
  • Product Placement
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Ukrainian Plan (from Imperium)
  • Juan Gil-Albert: La Siesta ("What is the Earth?")
  • Thomas Hardy: Afterwards
  • Doom Forest
  • Wislawa Szymborska: Cat in an Empty Apartment
  • Robert Desnos: I Am a Shadow
  • Richard Brautigan: Lonely at the Laundromat
  • Curzio Malaparte: Into the Ukraine
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Brooklyn Bridge at the End of the World
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Happy World
  • Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones
  • Joseph Ceravolo: Falling in the hands of the moneyseekers
  • Amiri Baraka: Monday in B-Flat
  • Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs
  • "...seeth no man Gonzaga...": Andrea Mantegna: The Court of Gonzaga / Ezra Pound: from Canto XLV
  • Masaccio's Tribute Money and the Triumph of Capital

Links

  • Truth Game at BlazeVOX
  • Evening Train at BlazeVOX
  • Tom Clark Collection at BlazeVOX
  • Distance at BlazeVOX
  • At the Fair at BlazeVOX
  • Canyonesque at BlazeVOX
  • TC: In the Shadow of the Capitol at Pataphysics Books
  • Feeling for the Ground at BlazeVOX
  • The New World & Trans/Versions at Libellum
  • The New World at Evergreen Review
  • Something in the Air at Shearsman
  • Vanitas Magazine (contributions by TC)
  • TC at word pond
  • TC: Precession: A Pataphysics Post at Collected Photographs
  • TC at Jacket 40/TC Jacket archive
  • Starlight and Shadow: free TC e-book from Ahadada
  • TC at Issa's Untidy Hut
  • TC at Lally's Alley
  • A reading of TC's poem 'Hazard Response' on the pō’ĭ-trē audiopoetry site
  • Other Stuff
  • The Other Stuff Annexe
  • Problems of Thought at The Offending Adam
  • Harry Hoogstraten
  • Temporality
  • Black Sun
  • Nomadics
  • Poet Red Shuttleworth
  • Vazambam
  • The Little Wooden Boy
  • Michael Peverett
  • "intercapillary space"
  • Be the BQE
  • walkingintheceiling
  • MinXus-Lynxus2
  • BLCKDGRD
  • these temporal rooms
  • A Bad Guide
  • Jottings of an AmeriQuebeckian
  • East of West L.A.
  • wood s lot
  • NoraSawyer.com
  • Nin Andrews
  • Departure Delayed
  • Meliora Latent
  • Poemas del rio Wang
  • Robb Todd
  • Tom Raworth
  • Lucy in the Sky: In a World of Magnets and Miracles
  • Locos por naufragar
  • pantaloons
  • jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang

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