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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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clicked out of curiosity about their stated rationale :
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.
that’s it? that’s the reason? pretty thin.
August 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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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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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
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6960 . 30 Chauncy . 20250704
just a sign, this side missing letters, of the long defunct Harvard Landscape Institute. 20250704
July 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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8193 . 20250702 ex portrait of film maker Joanna Hogg, re: her latest film, the autobiography of a handbag FT/HTSI (8 February 2025 ?) frame in garden, stack of magazines... means of disposal.
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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20250622
today's news — insertion bg detail from an Omega/Swatch print ad, Financial Times / HTSI (16 April 2022), the "Spring 2022 Design Issue"
June 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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8150 . 20250620
and this, another piece of metal, encountered in a walk in Watertown, a few years ago. it is now the frame for a changing sequence (depending on whim and weather) of details, of pages and covers from hoarded NYTimes and Financial Times / HTSI magazines. no meaning. just because. paper and metal, and wood. and shadows. etc etc.
June 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM