July 2026 Shortform

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The numbers are numbers, not dates.

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03 — we're sure

I have been

I am now

the river, swallowed in green, sticky

spine bones drip

dropping / has two

eyes you never see

visitors teach me their histories,

glass ground and ground and

chewed, blood spit gift and two

fingers slow-mapping

the palm of my hand

it's nothing and never

enough, rousing the house,

this loud drunk

hacking,

slick and living,

spinning thicksmoke dreams

a recall gone purple gone

wrong somewhere

it was better then,

we're sure, or think we're sure

02 — bad poem for a text: Yoga & drinks tonight? eyeball emoji

The world stock colors,

crayola whole.

Light so thin we split its last.

A voice, an amp, thirty feet of plain street.

I like the way you see me, better than the way I see me,

and tell you so. We discuss what it is to see,

to be, to be really.

My tomato drink is good. You agree.

I splash a little when I set it

down and you lick it off. This is all there is, all

there is to say and I'm splintered like the voice, the street,

color sprinting pixel

sweet rice and a

temporary body which carries

sticks which reaches

heart to sky which studies

blue jay and blue jay's

toy hunt, the whole bloody scene

01 — hawk

the miles open

for me

hawk

jungle

some silence and all

the world's waters

screech and a flat leaf

leading lines collapse

worlds

something in my

body wants

to break that giant

blue

i don't

the wind stings