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@jmcvey.bsky.social
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obscure; opaque.
asphalt, hardware stores, index rerum,
putterings, telegraphic codes, a something of's.
under/non achiever.
a mess of human error come home to rust.
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7037 . infrastructure . 20251109
happened to look up (walk to supermarket), to see this tangle of wires come undone, their cover blown as it were, against a cloudy sky. Cambridge Massachusetts 9 November 2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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8553 . 20251009
incidental a.m. light, door jamb, latch plate; many coats many years
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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8548 . recent
scribble, with reading notes, and marks from preceding pages. at left, I can't *read* you, heard 50+ years ago.
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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press photo —
of Anne Austin (1895-1975), writer (novels e.g., Jackson Street (1927), crime fiction), editor. —
its own carbon (graphite scribble on back; N.E.A. syndication service, 1926)

8498 . front, detail; reflected sky beyond . 20250923
graphite scribbled into back of photo, for use as a rough kind of carbon paper. something on Anne Austin at https://jmcvey.net/putterings/558a.htm
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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8460 . 20250914
street side garden, dead (and retained!) cherry stump, found rings of metal, a variosity of flowering plants not to mention fungi, shadows and the side of the house, looped excess cable aloft in the blue distance. years in the making/unmaking, this.
September 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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8455 . Ada Limón broadside side, and windows . 20250910

“How to triumph like a girl” www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149814...
workroom windows, reflected from envelope containing Ada Limón broadside, late afternoon. 20250910 I attend to her poems, because some earlier ones concerned a woman who worked in a hardware store.
September 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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sources : 1 cross-column OCR misread (from paragraphs on the “grain cradle,” and “the wilderness”), at “Charles A. Green’s Walks and Talks with Readers,” in Green’s Fruit Grower (Rochester, N.Y., August 1915) 2 John Treat Irving, Jun., The Hunters of the Prairie, or The Hawk Chief. A Tale of of the Indian Country. (London, 1837) 3 Susan Taubes, Lament for Julia (1960s; NYRB 2023) : 60 aside — there is more here from Susan Taubes than is proper — but what a book it is ! 4 Fred Peters, “A Night on the Railway in Old England” in Western Literary Messenger (Buffalo, New York; Saturday, June 5, 1847) 5 Walter de Gray Birch, Seals, in “The Connoisseur’s Library” (London: Methuen, 1907) 6 ex Edith the Captive; or, The Robbers of Epping Forest. “By the author of Jane Brightwell.” [James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84)] (London, 1861) 20250830
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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8400 . 20250828
asagao (morning glory), trolley track blue
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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8386 . pins, penned . 20250824
clothes pins, awaiting deployment. somewhat confused, tense, apprehensive. as if on a landing craft approaching shore, or a refugee boat in rough seas, no life jackets near.
August 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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8381 . 20250821
a drawing (non repro blue mostly, some graphite and red); crumpled, chewed for a minute, then partially opened; here reading lamp illumination from above left.
August 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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8372 . 20250819
night blooming cereus, neglected ceiling above
August 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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8356 . 20250815
evening scribble, poor light.
August 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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linoleum ? resuscitated
from a deactivated elsewhere dated 20210827
August 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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8345 . ibid., opp . 20250812
August 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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8335 . lunar glue spots, Barilla linguine fini N⁰11 . 20250812
August 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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sources 1 “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations” [sic title, in google books result, but] Imaginary Conversations, in The Works of Walter Savage Landor. (London, 1853) 2 Addenda and corrigenda to the edition of the Hippolytus Stephanephoros of Euripides, by the honourable Francis Henry Egerton (Oxford, 1796) 3 Gynecocracy; with An Essay on Fornication, Adultery, and Incest : By the author of “Rumours of Treason,” A Work suppressed in 1810. (London, 1821) 4 Cross Purposes ; Or, The Way of the World. A Novel. By Margaret Casson. (London, 1855) 5 OCR cross-column misconstrual, at “Novels with a Purpose” — concerning Meredith, his The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and Emilia in England, Mrs. Norton her Lost and Saved, and (no author named) Recommended to Mercy — in The Westminster Review (July 1864) 6 ex landing snippet leading to responses “To correspondents” at The Literary Pioneer (London; Saturday, December 2, 1848) 7 OCR cross-column misconstrual, at an intereresting location within “On the Study of Words,” by Richard Chenevix French D.D., in The World’s Cyclopedia of Science (1883) 20250803
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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sources : Charles W. Tyler, “The Mutiny On X-2329,” in Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s Magazine (January 15, 1917) Mary S. Stover, “Who’s the Better for It?” in Christian Advocate (Nashville, Tenn.; November 7, 1924) “The Friendly Corner,” in Volta Review (“For the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and Their Friends”); (June 1924) Surprise Land : A Girl’s Letters from the West. by “E. G. H.” [Ellen G. Hodges] (Boston, 1887) 20250807
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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6992 . a something of an interrupted sky . NH . 20250701
expired and imperfectly removed resident parking permits, interacting with reflected late afternoon sky, vicinity of Lake Sunapee, NH. Friday, 1 August 2025
August 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A few years later he told the Los Angeles Times, “I’ve just seen a lot of waste in this business. I just thought with [Malpaso] there could be some kind of alternative there.”

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July 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
How the inventor of the bouncy castle saved lives
The pioneer tested life-saving inflatables by having his sons jump from the roof of the family home.
www.aljazeera.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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unlocked (I believe) — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/t...
‘Quincaillerie’ Is French for ‘Hardware Store,’ but It Means So Much More
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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swimming, a hot-button issue, no 2 —
inscrutably, online version of this article omits photo and it caption “Palestinians at the beach in Gaza City. Last week, the Israeli military issued a statement prohibiting swimming or fishing there.”
paywall, but "shared" here :
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/w...
Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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swimming a hot button issue, no 1.
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/t...
Ken Paxton sues adult swimming organization for allowing transgender competitors at San Antonio event
The Texas attorney general said U.S. Masters Swimming violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s events.
www.texastribune.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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8229 . spilled soba, morning light . 20250716
spilled soba, the moths had gotten at it.
July 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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8208, 8210 garden views potsherds, iron, pavers, glass insulator, &c &c, early Sunday a.m.
July 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM