Strokes
AR

"Pain brings attention
to herself," says Rae Armantrout.

Poetry does it too.
Is pain poetry?
It strikes me.

Poetry dipped in pain:
paintry.

It keeps looking.
I overthink. I think over. 
Over as above. As far from. 
From what? 

Then my body hurts. 
It overhurts.

- AR
what is love but a constellation
of significances

- julian t. brolaski
If I be fair, or false, or freaked with fear
- Julian T. Brolaski
a rose is arrows is eros
- julian t. brolaski
Why speak of hate, when I do bleed for love?
Not hate, my love, but Love doth bite my tongue
Till I taste stuff that makes my rhyming rough

- Julian T. Brolaski
the bear and the salmon
Julian T. Brolaski

it lyked to eat salmon w/ its
fingers like a bear
and then use those fingers
to clean its glasses
it cried and it looked like a raccoon   I believe
it wanted to cultivate this look
hope all is well.  send smoke
signal telegram carrier pigeon 

- julian t. brolaski
the music made me feel a little anxious it was
hard thumping dance music a notch
upwards of 100 bpm notoriously the beat of life
the optimum tempo for cpr

- julian t. brolaski
what can poetry do it
cant not not do nothing

- julian t. brolaski
Diagnosis
Andrea Gibson

I suffer
from unrequited self love.
I love myself, but I don’t
love myself
back.
A gente é uma performance. 
Não existe uma coisa antes do que a gente é.
Não existe um ser que é antes do que a gente faz.

- João Vicente, Não Importa (25/06/2026)
There are doors opening everywhere.
We don't know why or what's connecting them.
They keep happening and we don't know how to stop them.

- Phil, Beckrooms (2026)
Demora-te, demora-te assim: 
faz do olhar 
tempo sem tempo, espaço 
limpo

- Eugénio de Andrade
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