before the image the syntax
that holds the image up

- caleb braun
under drifts of sediment
- david b. prather
Vonnegut paraphrased Nietzsche:
Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

- John Moessner
semioteca

my clumsy deceit
- ben weakley
Time
is more beautiful than money. 
Patience is more beautiful 
than achievement. 

- Elaine Sexton
I declutter my heart
I make no solace of life or the taking of life.
Only of this pause, waiting for thunder during rain.

Carson Colenbaugh
May God protect these girls, because I'm not sure I can.
- Aunt Lydia in The Testaments, S01E06
Agnes, c'est moi!

Such a lived livid life
Richard Hague
Memories without language
Richard Hague
Trembling, as in many vowels
sung together. A certain otherness
of skin, as if preparing to molt.
Perceptions of words
as transformers, metamorphic.

Richard Hague
called crazy
and queer all my life

- david b. prather