Synapse Soufflé

A Tolerable Level of Permanent Unhappiness

"I had never seen anything more irritating, or anything more human." —Bataille

Nov 9 • Contraryon

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September 2025

If not the sluggish wheel.

"So fiery the prize of these marksmen" —Celan

Sep 12 • Contraryon

1

May 2025

Saturdays and Sundries

Three poems.

May 31 • Contraryon

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March 2025

Static in the Foreground

An elegy in eight parts.

Mar 8 • Contraryon

2

7

1

February 2025

Eyes Without Sockets

i.e., Here's looking at you.

Feb 22 • Contraryon

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February 18th, 2025

My Keats is better than your Keats.

Feb 18 • Contraryon

1

News for a Pharaoh

Credo quia absurdus sum.

Feb 8 • Contraryon

February 5th, 2025

Sometimes, not enough is too much.

Feb 5 • Contraryon

1

February 4th, 2025

"Poetry lives always under the shadow of poetry."

Feb 4 • Contraryon

1

January 2025

Objects in working memory.

The Absolute came close to finding itself when it was born.

Jan 11 • Contraryon

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December 2024

About Voices

A reflection on the complicities of the Democratic Party

Dec 23, 2024 • Contraryon

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And here we are...

It took a long time for us to get here.

Dec 16, 2024 • Contraryon

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