(4threset on tumblr)

Murder board.

turn the CRANK
yawn a more ROMAN

wayment skies of brick red graysquadrons
ferret out my fond AMUSE

list'ning to a pretty steady rain mutter
gurgle bassoon glug NASAL

save the goats
camels that have KNELT

& the idiotic officiousness of
the college hierarchy · grin OTTER

i want espresso
& a St Elmo's fire TIARA

Paradise's fire migrants
find all the good parking places are TAKEN

turn the crank
walk ERECT

walk the fucking plank
it's a perfect storm of RANTS

Labels: #ghazals, #hasyan_yecya, #palindromes

(hypothetical mars via)

Star-craving mad.

"And such works as Cynothoglys or The Noctuary of Tine conveyed schemes so bizarre, so remote from known texts and treatises of the esoteric tradition, that he felt assured of the sense of his quest." --Thomas Ligotti

Scumfish.

"clearing cobwebs
listen to it
on a path through the mountains"

--@poem_exe

Labels: #palindromes

the Lyrids fell through clear skies
aim sonar, anosmia
to pierce through the riddle crowd

the Lyrids fell through clear skies
becalmed we are on this veldt
cranched we are in this airspace

the Lyrids fell through clear skies
aim sonar, anosmia

Labels: #palindromes, #rhime, #triolets

(via)

The "heterogeneous palindrome" as named (& probably invented) by Anthony Etherin is almost too ingenious to be appreciated by the reader, yet there is undoubtedly intellectual-beauty to be found in the way it can encode number sequences (such as several decimals of a famous irrational number) into a verbal construct (i hardly dare call them "poems"--yet what else are they?). One way to make its structure more obvious is to use color. For example, i observe that, since the larger digits become unwieldy quickly (around five, i'd say), there is virtue in using a lower number base than our regular base-10. I can put the significant number 365 into base-4 as "11223" & thus create a sequential palindrome using, in turn, 1,1,2,2,3 letters (+ 1 to hinge upon):

To foal ort, mortal foot.

I call this method "aklo polka"...

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Postscript. I am informed that "heterogeneous palindromes" are now "aelindromes." (From αἴλινος 'dirge' ?)

Also: Filemot: orator mole if. One more.

A few using the number 666 (22112 in base-4)>

Labels: #palindromes