Ink & Washes
DogPunk & Psychedelic Stinky Cat: Kyle Hemmings' Blog
Kyle talks about life, lit, music, manga girls, sexual taboos, inferiority complexes, Melville's whale, and the pursuit of meaning or close to.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Our Youth Was Messy
We steal battered cars, abandon them by the river. We flirt with girls, flighty as leaves, hypnotize them with our moist grins, our too tight zippers, our hidden weapons of erotic destruction. Like a form of black magic, we nuke the night until it becomes day.
the river's dirty curl
digging up the buried bones
of old bluesmen
ku
water heater breaks
our bodies humming
our ghost-quiet footsteps
in thick of night
crushing a cricket
endless repetition
conjoined twins repeat
each other's silence
my African journal--
i wake in pounding pulse of night
antelopes in my chest
seance
she speaks to me
from little heaps
of inert matter
the old nun's wager--
burn the candle
or dread the dawn
a luminous cloud
shifting around me, therefore
i am dense
Sunday, August 3, 2025
mo more ku
penniless sailor
drinking brine
sinking in sand
single mother
she only eats
what her son can't finish
alarm clocks & morning robins
the lost children in last night's dream
never return
opaque
opposite of every mistake
we make in the night
late night thunderstorm
her see-through nightgown
whitens
stirring coffee
she stares out the window
nobody ever flies
looking for night thieves--
shadows in the ears
cars prowling empty lots
mother smokes & lectures
in my Led Zeppelin shirt
i don't believe in college degrees
Saturday, August 2, 2025
More Ku
spitting out wishbones
i tread lightly
in bed her skin is a map
all roads leading back
to me
a fine madness
the astronomer finds a new star
in my wife's eyes
summer's open wounds
rivers become mirrors
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