Stories on Myself

17.10.2025

Rare, the coyote’s shrill bark’s become
as our presence intrudes on theirs.
Nights we suffer from our own noise,
left in peace with the howl of our cares.

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/subdivision/

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Preface
Foreword
Pre-word
Fore-face

lions & tigers

tigers & lions

Storm troopers to wiki  

Publish has the same root as publicize
Self-publishing

How the solar system works
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNirzatuZ5j/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The moon is warm tonight, not breeze
enough to stir the vanes of the wind mills
grouped in groves of their own out beyond
the manicured lawns and stands of palms

which ring this landscaped spa oasis

Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev poem (Жираф)       

https://alteritas.net/pastis/giraffes-at-san-gorgonio/  

1968
Quail paella

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3586

Route 60 Navajo reservation 

I don’t subscribe so can’t read it, but this did remind me of a poem I wrote in 1977. Please forgive my piggy-backing, but the coincidence was almost too much to bear: https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

They snipped off my tubes
which promptly grew back.
The heart is fickle,
not gonads so much…

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1471
A Young Man Loved a Woman

 https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1720
Gallowsong

First night matches
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1731

+ german   

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2186
Temblor

B among the consonants
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2576

Still lozeau
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2605    

Tokens
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2635
Revising this lyric  has enabled me to stand again on that curb-side of the Boulevard St-Germain, angle Danton, renewing my futile desire for the anonymous woman who stood next to me before crossing through afternoon sunshine towards métro Odéon in late September, 1965.

What is the Good Life?
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2752

Chaparral Sunset
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2954

Trigger warning haiku
 https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3550 

Phänomenologie der Liebe – Pastis @ Bandol

https://alteritas.net/pastis/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Drahtseilkunstler-PDF.pdf

Varnished Truth

Poetry is sometimes too much with us,
always tangling underfoot. Like kudzu
or the parachuting dandelion fluff
we superstitiously disperse with puffs,
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/global-warning/ 

https://alteritas.net/pastis/chaparral-sunset-2/

Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero 

https://www.threads.com/@profjalexanderart/post/DPURkqygGXm?xmt=AQF0rGc5rmA9u3VB6Lh9keDLKvfZwzqU8XYUYnMZY1eaMQ&slof=1  

Erich Kơhler (1964. Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la poésie des troubadours, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 7: 27-51.

Thoma, Heinz. “POUR UNE SCIENCE HISTORICO-SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE: Quelques Remarques Sur l’œuvre d’Erich Köhler.” Littérature,    no. 43, 1981, pp. 100–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23801787. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

… class conflict between the dispossessed troubadour and the higher nobility, for whom he was  

Sad to Be to Twitter ✅

Publish has the root as publicize
Self-publishing

How the solar system works

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNirzatuZ5j/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The moon is warm tonight, not breeze
enough to stir the vanes of the wind mills
grouped  in groves of their own out beyond
the manicured lawns and stands of palms
which  ring this landscaped spa oasis

Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev poem (Жираф)       

https://alteritas.net/pastis/giraffes-at-san-gorgonio/

1968
Quail paella

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3586

Route 60 Navajo reservation

I don’t subscribe so can’t read it, but this did remind me of a poem I wrote in 1977. Please forgive my piggy-backing, but the coincidence was almost too much to bear: https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

They snipped off my tubes

which promptly grew back.

The heart is fickle,

not gonads so much…

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1471

A Young Man Loved a Woman

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1720

Gallowsong

First night matches

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1731

+ german        

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2186

Temblor

  B among the consonants

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2576

Still lozeau

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2605

    

Tokens

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2635

Revising this lyric  has enabled me to stand again on that curb-side of the Boulevard St-Germain, angle Danton, renewing my futile desire for the anonymous woman who stood next to me before crossing through afternoon sunshine towards métro Odéon in late September, 1965.

What is the Good Life?

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2752

Chaparrral Sunseti

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2954

Trigger warning haiku

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3550

Phänomenologie der Liebe – Pastis @ Bandol

https://alteritas.net/pastis/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Drahtseilkunstler-PDF.pdf

Varnished Truth

Poetry is sometimes too much with us,

always tangling underfoot. Like kudzu

or the parachuting dandelion fluff

we superstitiously disperse with puffs,

poetry goes wild, turns weed….

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/global-warning/

https://alteritas.net/pastis/chaparral-sunset-2/

Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero

https://www.threads.com/@profjalexanderart/post/DPURkqygGXm?xmt=AQF0rGc5rmA9u3VB6Lh9keDLKvfZwzqU8XYUYnMZY1eaMQ&slof=1

Erich Kơhler (1964. Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la poésie des troubadours, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 7: 27-51.

Thoma, Heinz. “POUR UNE SCIENCE HISTORICO-SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE: Quelques Remarques Sur l’œuvre d’Erich Köhler.” Littérature,    no. 43, 1981, pp. 100–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23801787. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

… class conflict between the dispossessed troubadour and the higher nobility, for whom he was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi

Dantian is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine loosely translated as “elixir field”, “sea of qi“, or simply “energy center.” Dantian are the “qi focus flow centers,” important focal points for meditative and exercise techniques such as qigong, martial arts such as tai chi, and in traditional Chinese medicine.[1][2]

Shoulder Rolls
Breath-body connection
Rising and sinking
Chi squat
Drawing the bow
Withdraw and push right
Withdraw and push left
Stand on one leg
Horse stance with punches
Balance and stability
Kick
Rooster Left and Right
Embrace the moon
Rooted stance

 

Diggit !

I double-dare you to click on any of the hashtags below. If your instinctive reaction to my initial exclamation was to check and see if it fit the rules of palindromal reading, watch out: You may be suffering from a prodromal state of dyslexia.

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Submissions

Warlock

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/warlock/

Yassa lecture:

https://youtu.be/pjKXGPgy4iM

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Rhina Espialat

Climbing the fence to your cemetery
I scratched my wrist, a wound you salved with spit.
It was not yours, of course, just Russian,
a patch of thistle slant over the cold sea
coursing like a river whose floe has cracked.

   https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnEn9koSbPoF3P3uF6gCPva0IFUc1lga&si=XvYJRsU1Cjub8_jl

Le Meilleur du Plus Grand Poète Québecois : Émile Nelligan

Émile Nelligan

Deus est aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possuit
Multi cives ea pericula quae imminent non videntAlp

Ah, how much snow has snowed.

My window is a garden of frost.

I realized how much of “Québec,” my poem that is, is drawn from Nelligan’s Soir d’hiver.

Émile Nelligan – Soir d’hiver (English translation)