collection of caliginous junk

"Collection of Caliginous Junk," February 6, 2022 (#37)

title from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (1995)

Want by Lynn Steger Strong (2020)

Weather by Jenny Offill (2020)

Collection of Caliginous Junk

In the cracks of the coping stones around the windows

is them being kids and what is having not been taught

what will be the safest place? No one they’d consulted with

as if they had suddenly been inflicted with running sores

is not okay in some bodily unsafe way and also that I’ve

read about in the paper, the ones who are discovered by

whatever is the great attraction of absolute power anyway.

I want everything both ways all the time and I’m tired of

anything these days. This one on the library steps is going

away from the dizzying drop and No came running up

like some bullshit movie that’s supposed to make you

think first of the group. If you look after the needs of

great disagreement between the Eminences and

this constant anxious ache that I have now,

what I mean to say is that it took me a week to

pick up what you pick up. And I think some

of us are back with our parents while I wait,

found out and pushed down again.

2-6-22

5-15-21

2-6-22

still from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5-20-21 David Hockney exhibit at MFAH

still from Storm of the Century (1999)

From here.