Compelling passages, notable quotables, bon mots, disjecta, ephemera, and miscellany.

Inquisitor: Do you ever feel your behaviour is vampiric?

Accused: Only when sinking my fangs into somebody’s neck and draining their blood, transforming myself into fog to seep under a locked door, or using my bat-like sonar to see through walls. But apart from that, no.

— Work (2022)

Subfusc, a cabin in the forest – from the depths of language, something threatens to disappear. Do not be deceived: the tarrying ceases in time, albeit a false appearance.

1. Ensiform flame, from a sword to form.
2. The part which surmounts the column and rests upon the capital.
3. Any similar structure.
4. The great momentum and bladder.
5. Stomach violet and testicles.
6. Such as an engine framework upon columns.
7. From in, and carried lifeless from a table.
8. A platform above a dado on a pedestal.
9. A statue at rest.
10. The action of turning and moving a table without the use of any apparently adequate means.
11. A dead notation with a line for each string and letter to indicate the stopping.
12. The upper surface of a bird’s body.
13. A tablet (650mg today).
14. A painting, looted or lost.
15. A pictorial representation or earthwork.
16. To throw oneself overboard.
17. To plank, board across, corrugate.

— Mourning (2015)

A brief symphonic chorus. Mystic insignificance of the numbs, the seven. Bendy words heaped into bulwarks. That instrument is strigil.

Baulks of avoidance. The boys laughing.

— Dwelling (2011)