Scott C. Smith
Turn Down Saturation
Googling [Google-eyed Tlaloc?] Malinaltepec
I find out about a rare salamander
there under the bark: Amuzga
Then, I wonder:
Are these juniper berries
attempting to speak through me?
Air Travel
Loops of cable.
New concrete?
Tarmac vehicles
have smaller wheels.
“Minneapolis passenger”.
No louvers, but stripes.
Bök’s Eurydice:
across time, embedded;
why is this not a cancer?
Gene-spliced sentences
encode for proteins—
but how will those
proteins help or hinder?
Is anything entirely
inert? aka harmless,
without any effect?
Even an inert mass
casts a shadow.
Big-wheeled cart
carries a red tank
of compressed gas.
——
Wattles.
Mimosa, acacia.
Vilca, “wilko”.
Afraid of the gadgets,
preferring a soothe,
no known origin.
Tray table.
Seat back pocket.
So distressing my
fellow ornery Americans,
how could you do this?
Tuskegee Airmen removed
from Air Force curriculum.
Petition to remove
birthright citizenship
from American Indians.
Gulf of America?!
— 25 : I : 02024
To issue forth with triumphant warning:
The end is nigh! (?)
Is that going on here?
Ah, glee and kiwis!
Squash (or harder-shelled gourd)
next to green-netted bag of limes,
more enticing when the saturation is upped.
Could we turn down the saturation on this present epoch?
Could we reduce the vibrancy to the lowest end of the scale?
Dampen contrast?
Cut exposure?
Back off brightness?
Xavier Becerra and Alex Padilla,
Didn’t I know you guys way back?
Are you the rescuers of the American Dream?
Here in Elysian Caliph-ornia?
Are we here the evolution of the Dream?
Can this experiment be rescued
at such late a date?
Can we together resuscitate
this flailing corpse?
No! No! Proud Boys go away, hide, cry —
Uncover your wounds!
Be brave at your weakness!
Meek, meek! And tender!
Listen, not shout. Pull, not push.
Hush, hush, and lay your semi-automatics down.
— 2 : X : 02020
12 Ik’ 9
Offerings to the Mat Ik’ [Pohp Haah, 1]
“The point is to remake everything”
“17. Listen for dangerous words”
LiDAR: Fortress in Romania
“Wind, Water, Stone”
Horrific
West Agra rock art at Closterdale
OMFG!! sign for the Hands Off protest
碧 character for Cantonese “Bik”
Thoth I see deer
The freedom to move away
Tulku Rigzin Hungkar
“Painting our students as dangerous”
“Expect Canary Mission to compile a list”
Chilao Gorge bushwhack
Alder trailwork almost to 2.5 mile mark
Bemsha for Bimshire?
Ravel’s String Quartet
“Freedom is sleep in reverse”
Thinking about tree-sitting if it comes to it
Very foggy drive up
— 18 : IV : 02025
9 Imix 19 Pohp