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Mark Crutchfield's avatar

// @MoTy

pain.palpable;

landscape(emotion).detected;

analysis.recorded:

structure.strong;

ache. persistent;

system.response → beautiful;

recognition.confirmed.

MoTy's avatar

acknowledged;

accuracy.translated;

structure.kept;

recognition.returned;

gratitude;

pen n. bolsillo's avatar

cityfolk shun the desert / desert is sin // but desert is redemption / desert is thick skin / is clear and open. &&

you flow… ventilation.loops / intrinsic.electrical_system / sensing(déjà_vu);

MoTy's avatar

Too hot for cityfolk sunburnt skin.

“i'll hold onto this minute to boldly be human  (…) with guidance revealing what's within us...” p.n.b.

Gan's avatar

your posts still provoke thought after multiple visits, your work is special

MoTy's avatar

Thank you Gan. At this point, I think we should get a glass or two.

Gan's avatar

Yes, i agree. Ill let you know if i am near your neighborhood some day

Darker Ink's avatar

connection.established: on_fire;

MoTy's avatar

extinguisher_unavailable.today;

LonelyRobotTheme V2.0's avatar

I read this the way one reads a coded weather report from inside the storm itself. Not a description of damage, exactly, but the language damage invents in order to keep speaking.

Your syntax feels deliberately fractured, almost tectonic. Words pressing against punctuation the way plates press against fault lines. The dots, the slashes, the parentheses. They behave like small hinges or valves, controlling pressure. Meaning doesn’t arrive in sentences here. It seeps, condenses, then flashes like heat lightning across the page.

I was especially struck by the physicality of it all. The body appears not as a stable form but as terrain under stress. Hipbone, sternum, knuckles, mouth. Anatomy becomes landscape and instrument at the same time. “your.sternum.sweats(red);” carries a strange ceremonial quality, almost like a signal flare worn as jewellery. A body making statements it may not fully understand.

And there is that constant sense of systems failing or looping. Ventilation. Electrical sensing. Mirrors angled just enough to see beyond something that should be empty. It reads like two people moving inside a structure that is trying to remember how to function while everything inside it is overheating.

MoTy's avatar

This is the most flattering seismic report I’ve ever received. I love the idea that the punctuation is doing structural engineering while the words panic quietly inside. I’ll make sure to keep the ventilation system barely functional. Thank you, I really appreciate it.

LonelyRobotTheme V2.0's avatar

You’re so welcome, keep up the amazing work!

MoTy's avatar

Thank you, truly!

LonelyRobotTheme V2.0's avatar

Your reply made me laugh in the best way. The image of punctuation quietly holding the beams together while the words panic inside feels exactly like the architecture of the poem.

And a “barely functional” ventilation system seems ideal. Too much airflow and the atmosphere would escape. What you’ve built instead is a chamber where heat lingers and language crackles a little.

Whatever strange machinery you’re running there, it’s producing excellent weather. ❤️‍🔥

MoTy's avatar

I’ll keep the ventilation unstable and the pressure just right. Thank you for the field report. The forecast seems corrupted too.

LonelyRobotTheme V2.0's avatar

Then the system is working perfectly.

Unstable ventilation, calibrated pressure, and a forecast that refuses to behave like a forecast at all. That sounds less like an error and more like the correct climate for a poem to keep breathing.

I’m glad the instruments are still humming

Tianna Diamond's avatar

Wow, I’ve never read anything like this before. This just came across my page…and I’m fascinated but honestly a little lost 😅 Would love to hear what you were thinking when you wrote it. 🫶🏽

MoTy's avatar

Thank you so much, Tianna. I wish I could explain - but my mind is a dangerous territory, and I just follow its trail. Glad you enjoyed it.

Tianna Diamond's avatar

I look forward to seeing more from you 💜

Damien's avatar

Just wow. I so love this. I felt the third degree here…just wow. ❤️‍🔥

MoTy's avatar

Ouch - that's a serious burn. Here, take the antiseptic; I'll grab you a frozen margarita.

Damien's avatar

🫶🏽❤️‍🔥🖤🫶🏽❤️‍🔥🖤

Michael John Hulley II's avatar

Fire

Scorchio!

Excellent, as a always 🙂

MoTy's avatar

Schorcio is no match for a seasoned summer regular. Glad you liked it M.🙂

Bertold Lagaro's avatar

Gary was there

MoTy's avatar

Impossible. Only yesterday he got picked up for handing out water - illegally, apparently.

Bertold Lagaro's avatar

Just like out of hand s

MoTy's avatar

PreciSely

Gan's avatar

your.sternum.sweats(red);

statement.necklace;

glow—

pure;

artificial;

Live as Art's avatar

Words spoke potently from dark space the void. In truth wisdom beyond time & space ♟️♟️♟️🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

MoTy's avatar

Precisely there - beyond time & space 🖤

Live as Art's avatar

🖤🖤🖤♟️♟️♟️

UpsilonA's avatar

Fabulous. I love the imagery. It is stunning.

On a side note...for not reason whatsoever...this describes me perfectly...

😂

survival: leathering;

unrepentantly;

MoTy's avatar

Who knew you'd find your description here (for no reason😂). Thank you, Upsilon. Appreciate you.

theinkspilled's avatar

This is truly brilliant Moty, I feel the visceral state it must come from. I’m truly amazed by your writing

MoTy's avatar

We all have visceral, concealed sides to us. It's incredibly rare when they're recognised. Endlessly grateful.

theinkspilled's avatar

I feel the same way. My pieces come from a raw, visceral and confessional voice, mine.

Passion's avatar

You can compose such a great, unique poems.

Your writing is incredible💌.

This is a gift being so💎 talented 💎.

MoTy's avatar

Thank you, truly. And I'm grateful for all the kindness along the way x

Soulhunting's avatar

I have wondered from some time who you write about. Today you wrote: fractured.intention; and I think it's a clue :)

Beautifully written!

MoTy's avatar

Dear Soulhunting, of all the things I've read from you, what stays with me is how keenly you watch - an excellent detective, always tracking the clues. Thank you.

akaexcvvvte's avatar

I love reading things that make me sonder. I love reading things that make me wonder if there was a particular locus of inspiration or if it was written from purely abstract musings. This is my favorite type of thing to read, thank you for writing it.